Áine | Irish | ♀ | Áine is a goddess of love, growth, and cattle, also perhaps associated with the sun. |
Aizen Myō-ō | Japanese | ♂ | He is portrayed as a red-skinned, frowning man, his appearance representing suppressed lust and passion. |
Albina | Etruscan | ♀ | She is the protector of Ill-fated lovers. |
Ani-lbo | African | ♀ | a goddess of birth, death, happiness and love |
Anteros | Greek | ♂ | Anteros is the personification of unrequited love and punisher of those who scorn love. He is the brother of Eros. |
Aphrodite (아프로디테) | Greek | ♀ | Aphrodite was born from the sea foam near Paphos, she is the mother of both Eros and Anteros. |
Astrild | Norse | ♂ | The name Astrild is old Norse for Love-Fire. |
Branwyn | Celtic | ♀ | a goddess of love, sexuality and the sea |
Cliodhna | Irish | ♀ | Cliodha is also known as the Queen of the Munster Fairies. |
Cupid (쿠피드) | Roman | ♂ | Cupid is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros. |
Eros (에로스) | Greek | ♂ | Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. |
Freyja (프레이야) | Norse | ♀ | She was a goddess of love, war, fertility, beauty, magic, prophecies and attraction; Freya correspondingly became one of the most popular goddesses. |
Freyr | Norse | ♂ | Worshipped as a phallic fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals". |
Hathor | African | ♀ | a goddess of love and joy |
Himerus | Greek | ♂ | Himeros was the personification of lust and sexual desire. |
Huehuecoyotl | Aztec | ♂ | Huehuecoyotl literally means old, old coyote. |
Inanna | Sumerian | ♀ | a goddess of love and war |
Astrild | Norse | ♂ | The name Astrild is old Norse for Love-Fire. |
Mami Wata | African | ♀ | Mami Wata is often pictured as a mermaid, half-human and either half-fish or half-reptile. |
Kamadeva | Indian (Hindu) | ♂ | Kāmadeva is represented as a young and handsome winged man who wields a bow and arrows. |
Milda | Lithuanian | ♀ | Goddess of love. |
Peitho | Greek | ♀ | Peitho ("persuasion") was the personification of persuasion and seduction. |
Prende | Albanian | ♀ | When Albania became Christianized in the early Middle Ages, Prende became venerated as a minor saint. |
Qetesh | Egyptian | ♀ | Qetesh was known as the goddess of sex but was almost never associated with fertility. |
Turan | Etruscan | ♀ | Turan was the goddess of love and vitality. Pigeons and black swans were sacred to her. |
Venus (베누스) | Roman | ♀ | Venus is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. |
Xochipilli | Aztec | ♂ | The name Xochipilli means Flower Prince. |
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deities_by_association
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