Western African-Congo
Efik
Anansa, goddess of the Sea,
allure and beauty.[citation needed]
Vodun
Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry,
dancing, luxury, and flowers.
Yoruba
Oshun, goddess of luxury and pleasure, sexuality and
fertility, beauty and love, the river and fresh water venerated in Ifá, Yoruba religion, Dahomey
mythology, Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, Haitian Vodou
Afroasiatic Middle East
Canaanite
Astarte, goddess of sex and war, Canaanite version of
Inanna.
Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty, and sex; "Qetesh"
is her Egyptian name.
Egyptian
Bastet, goddess of felines, love, protection, perfume,
beauty, and dance.
Bes, god of music, love, and dance.
Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, and music; originally a sky
goddess.
Min, god of reproduction, love, and sexual pleasure.
Qetesh, goddess of love, beauty, and sex; apparently
borrowed by the Egyptians from the Canaanites.
Hausa
Zamani, god of sex and beauty.
Mesopotamian
Inanna/Ishtar, goddess of sex and war.[3]
Nanaya, goddess personifying voluptuousness, sexuality and
sensuality.
Western Eurasia
Albanian
Prende, goddess of love, beauty and fertility.
Balto-Slavic
Lithuanian
Milda, goddess of love and freedom.
Slavic
Dogoda, Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love
and gentleness.
Siebog, god of love and marriage.
Živa, goddess of love and fertility.
Celtic
Áine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth, and
sovereignty; possibly originally a sun goddess.
Branwen, Welsh goddess of love and beauty
Cliodhna, Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess
of love and beauty.[4]
Norse-Germanic
Freyja, goddess of love/sex, beauty, seiðr, war, and death;
often thought of as the Norse equivalent of \
Lofn, goddess who has permission from Frigg to arrange
forbidden marriages.
Sjöfn, goddess associated with love.
Greek / Hellenic
Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty, Greek version of
Astarte and ultimately Inanna.
Eos, Greek reflex of Hausos, who may have been the PIE
lust/sex goddess.
The Erotes
Anteros, god of requited love.
Eros, god of love and procreation; originally a primordial
deity unconnected to Aphrodite, he was later made into her son, possibly with
Ares as his father; this version of him was imported to Rome where he came
known as Cupid.
Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love.
Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery.
Voluptas, Roman version of the Greek Hedone.
Cupid, Roman version of the Greek Eros, also called Amor.
Suadela, Roman version of the Greek Peitho.
Venus, Roman version of the Greek Aphrodite.
Etruscan
Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated
lovers.
Turan, goddess of love and vitality.
Western Asia
Armenian
Astghik, goddess of fertility and love.
Hindu-Vedic
Kamadeva Hindu god of human love or desire.
Rati, consort of Kama, goddess of love, carnal desire, lust,
passion and sexual pleasure.
Persian Zorostarian
Anahita, seems to have gained an association with fertility
and sex due to being influenced by the Mesopotamian Inanna; originally appears
to have been a water goddess.
Asia-Pacific / Oceania
Filipino
Bangan: the Kankanaey goddess of romance; a daughter of
Bugan and Lumawig
Amas: the Aeta deity who moves to pity, love, unity, and
peace of heart
Dian Masalanta: the Tagalog goddess of lovers,
Mangagayuma: the Tagalog deity specializing in charms,
especially those which infuses the heart with love; one of the five agent
brothers
Far East Asia
Chinese
Yue-Lao, a god of love, who binds two people together with
an invisible red string.
Tu Er Shen, a deity who oversees love between (effeminate)
homosexual men.
god. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was
supposed to make a sacrifice to him.
Qian Keng (Peng Zu), a god of health-focused sex.
Buddhist
Kuni, god of love.
Native Americas
Central American and the Caribbean
Aztec
Xochipilli, god of love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers,
maize, fertility, and song.
South America
Rudá, god of love.
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