List of love and lust deities

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Name	Place and Religion of Origin	Notes
Aizen Myō-ō	Japanese Buddhism	He is portrayed as a red-skinned, frowning man, his appearance representing suppressed lust and passion.
Albina (mythology)	Etruscan mythology	She is the protector of Ill-fated lovers.
Anteros	Greek Mythology	Anteros is the personification of unrequited love and punisher of those who scorn love. He is the brother of Eros.
Aphrodite	Greek Mythology	Aphrodite was born from the sea foam near Paphos, she is the mother of both Eros and Anteros.
Astarte	Phoenician Mythology	Goddess of fertility, love, sacred sexuality and sex.^[1]
Astrild	Norse Mythology	The name Astrild is old Norse for Love-Fire.
Cliodhna	Irish Mythology	Cliodha is also known as the Queen of the Munster Fairies.
Eros	Greek Mythology	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	Norse Mythology	She was a goddess of love, war, fertility, beauty, magic, prophecies and attraction; Freya correspondingly became one of the most popular goddesses.
Freyr	Norse Mythology	Worshipped as a phallic fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals".
Himerus	Greek Mythology	Himeros was the personification of lust and sexual desire.
Huehuecoyotl	Aztec Mythology	Huehuecoyotl literally means old, old coyote.
Ishtar	Mesopotamian mythology	Goddess of fertility, love and war.
Hymenaios	Greek Mythology	Hymenaios was the god of Marriage.
Mami Wata	African Mythology	Mami Wata is often pictured as a mermaid, half-human and either half-fish or half-reptile.
Kamadeva	Hindu	Kāmadeva is represented as a young and handsome winged man who wields a bow and arrows.
Milda	Lithuanian mythology	Goddess of love.
Peitho	Greek mythology	Peitho ("persuasion") was the personification of persuasion and seduction.
Prende	Albanian mythology	When Albania became Christianized in the early Middle Ages, Prende became venerated as a minor saint.
Qandisa	Moroccan mythology	A lust goddess in Northern Morocco.^[2]
Qetesh	Egyptian mythology	Qetesh was known as the goddess of sex but was almost never associated with fertility.
Turan	Etruscan mythology	Turan was the goddess of love and vitality. Pigeons and black swans were sacred to her.
Venus	Roman Mythology	Venus is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
Xochipilli	Aztec Mythology	The name Xochipilli means Flower Prince.