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A love deity is a deity in mythology associated with romance, sex, lust, or sexuality. Love deities are common in mythology and are found in many polytheistic religions. Female sex goddesses are often associated with beauty and other traditionally feminine attributes.
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers. Abhimanyu and ... (Greek - Roman) Vishnu and Lakshmi ... Zeus and many mortal women and nymphs (see Zeus) Twins
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Erotes (/ ə ˈ r oʊ t iː z /; Ancient Greek: ἔρωτες, érōtes) are a collective of winged gods associated with love and sexual intercourse. They are part of Aphrodite's retinue. Erotes is the plural of Eros ("Love, Desire"), who as a singular deity has a more complex mythology.
Hermaphroditus was depicted as a winged youth with both male and female features, that is, usually female thighs, breasts, and style of hair, and male genitalia. Dionysus has been dubbed "a patron god of hermaphrodites and transvestites" by Roberto C. Ferrari in the 2002 Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. [70]
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void
Pages in category "Women in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 293 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.