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Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the Yoruba orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the Osun River, and of wealth and prosperity in Voodoo.
Kama (left) with Rati on a temple wall of Chennakesava Temple, Belur, India Eos by Evelyn De Morgan (1895) depicts Eos, a Greek dawn goddess. A love deity is a deity in mythology associated with romance, sex, lust, or sexuality.
This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions.It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions.
Erzulie Freda (Lady Erzulie) – the vain and flirty goddess of love. Her "horses" tend to cry tears of longing and regret. She is syncretized with Our Lady of Sorrows (the Virgin Mary as suffering mother). Erzulie Mansur (Erzulie the Blessed) – represents maternal love and protects children from harm.
Prema, goddess who made the bride submissive, allowing penetration; also an epithet of Juno, who has the same function [17] Robigus, fertility god who protects crops against disease; Subigus, the god who subdues the bride to the husband's will; Venus, goddess of beauty, love, desire, sex and fertility
Ezili Danto, or Èzili Dantò, is the "manifestation of Erzulie, the divinity of love." It is said that Ezili Danto has a dark complexion and is maternal in nature. The Ezili are feminine spirits in Haitian Vodou that personify womanhood. [1] The Erzulie is a goddess, spirit, or loa of love in Haitian Voudou.
The Muse Clio derided the goddess' own love for Adonis. Therefore, Clio fell in love with Pierus, son of Magnes and bore Hyacinth. [201] Aegiale was a daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea and was married to Diomedes. Because of anger of Aphrodite, whom Diomedes had wounded in the war against Troy, she had multiple lovers, including a certain ...
Atabey (goddess) Mother goddess of fresh water and fertility. Female counterpart of the god Yúcahu: Yúcahu: The masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart Guabancex: The top Storm Goddess; the Lady of the Winds who also deals out earthquakes and other such disasters of ...