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Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvɛ(ː)nus]) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor.
Siebog, god of love and marriage. Živa, goddess of love and fertility. Lada, goddess of beauty and fertility. Jarilo, god of fertility and springtime, sometimes regarded as god of lust and passion. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485), depicting Venus, the Roman goddess of sex and beauty
A beauty deity is a god or (usually) goddess associated with the concept of beauty. Classic examples in the Western culture are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart, Venus. The following is a list of beauty deities across different cultures. For some deities, beauty is only one of several aspects they represent, or a lesser one.
Venus, goddess of love, beauty, sexuality, and gardens; mother of the founding hero Aeneas; one of the Dii Consentes. Veritas, goddess and personification of the Roman virtue of veritas or truth. Verminus, god of cattle worms. Vertumnus, Vortumnus or Vertimnus, god of the seasons, and of gardens and fruit trees.
'Love, Desire') is the Greek god of love and sex. His Roman counterpart is Cupid ('desire'). [4] In the earliest account, he is a primordial god, while in later accounts he is described as one of the children of Aphrodite and Ares and, with some of his siblings, was one of the Erotes, a group of winged love gods.
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 goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
One of the first pieces was a symbol of love. “Before work began in earnest, trial trenching uncovered a Roman Cupid figurine and brooch, along with a Roman or early Saxon skeleton,” officials ...
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