Deity of love

Love deities are worshiped in numerous mythologies as goddesses and gods that are associated with sexual love or its origin. They are also often referred to as fertility deities, especially in the 19th century. Other deities are exclusively responsible for conjugal sexuality , such as the Greek Hera .

Deity of love	Culture	Art	property
Cupid (Cupid)	roman mythology	man	God and personification of love
Anat	Egyptian , Sumerian	woman	Goddess of war and goddess of love
Aphrodite	Greek mythology	woman	Goddess of love, beauty and sensual desire
Ashratum	Babylonian religion	woman	Goddess of love, wife of Amurrum
Astarte	Phoenician	woman	Queen of heaven and goddess of love
Azacca	Haitian voodoo	Loa	Spiritual beings of agriculture and affairs of love
Bes	Egyptian mythology	man	nocturnal patron god, god of procreation and birth
Eros	Greek mythology	man	God of covetous love
Freya	norse mythology	woman	Vanity goddess of love and marriage
Frigg	norse mythology	woman	Patroness of marriage and motherhood, wife of Odin
Hathor	Egyptian mythology	woman	all-embracing mother goddess
Inanna	Sumerian religion	woman	Queen of Heaven
Ištar	Assyrian , Babylonian	woman	Goddess of (sexual) desire
Kamadeva	indian mythology	man	God of erotic love (kama: desire, worldly enjoyment)
Lakshmi	indian mythology	woman	Goddess of luck, love and fertility
Mylitta	Iranian mythology	woman	equal to the Greek Aphrodite (Urania)
Nanaja	Babylonian , Sumerian	woman	Goddess of feminine eros and divine mistress
Qadesh	Egyptian mythology	woman	Goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure
Šawuška	Hurrian religion	woman	Goddess of sexual love and war
Tanite	punic	woman	Goddess of fertility, chief deity of Carthage
Turan	Etruscan religion	woman	Fertility and protection goddess
Venus	roman mythology	woman	Goddess of love, erotic desire and beauty
Voluptas	roman mythology	woman	Goddess of lust for life and sexual pleasure