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Celtic Gods and Goddess

The Celtic world included Ireland, Britain, and a large section of the mainland

Aine: Goddess of love and fertility; encouraged human love; has command over crops and animals; daughter of Eogabail

Amaethon: God of agriculture

Anu or Danu/Dana: Mother goddess

Aonghus: God of love; son of Dagda and Boann

Badb: Irish goddess of battle; could influence the outcome of conflict by inspiring fear or bravery in warriors

Balor: The one-eyed god of death, everyone he looked upon was destroyed

Belenus or Bel: Sun god; appears throughout the Celtic world in different forms; Beltaine celebrates him

Boann: Water goddess; mother of Aonghus

Brigantia: Chief goddess of Brigantes tribe; associated with water, war and healing

Brigid/Brigit: Goddess of healing and fertility; said to help women during labor; possibly same goddess as Brigantia

Camulos: God of war mostly worshiped in Belgium areas; said to wield an invincible sword

Ceridwen: Goddess of fertility

Cernunnos: God of wild animals, forest, and plenty; possibly also the god of death; known as the horned one

Cliodhna: Goddess of beauty; her three birds could sing the sick to sleep and heal them

Dagda: The great god; could restore the dead to life

Dian Cecht: God of healing

Don: Welsh version of Dana

Donn: God of the dead

Dylan: Sea god

Epona: Horse goddess

The Formorii: Sea gods; violent and misshapen

Goibhniu: Smith god

Lir: God of sea, healing and magic

Lugh: Sun god (Ireland)

Lugus: Sun god (France and Britain)

Mac Cecht: God of eloquence

Macha: One of the war goddess

Manannan Mac Lir: Sea god; could stir up or soothe the sea

Manawydan: Welsh sea god, extremely similar to Manannan

Morrigan/Morrigu: Goddess of death on the battlefield

Nechtan: Water god

Nemain: Goddess of war

Nemglan: Bird god

Nodens: God of healing; owned magic healing hounds

Ogma: God of eloquence; creating of Ogham, the oldest writing system in Ireland

Taranis: Name means thunderer; Romans equated him to Jupiter; symbol was the wheel

Teutates or Toutatis: Romans equated him to Mars

**Not all inclusive

All information gathered from “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm

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Day 8: Variations on this deity (aspects, regional forms, etc.)

There are many deities from many pantheons and traditions that represent the aspects of love and beauty that Aphrodite encompasses. There are problably more that are not mentioned as well.

Albanian: Prende (Goddess of love and beauty)

Armenian: Astghik (Goddess of fertility and love)

Aztec: Xochiquetzal (Goddess of fertility, beauty, prostitutes, female sexual power, protection of young mothers, pregnancy, childbirth, and women's crafts), Xochipilli (God of love, art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, fertility, and song), Tlazolteotl (Goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds), Ixcuiname (Goddess of the carnality), Tiacapan (Goddess of sexual hunger), Teicu (Goddess of sexual appetite), Tlaco (Goddess of sexual longing), Xocotzin (Goddess of sexual desire)

Buddhism: Aizen Myō-ō or Rāgarāja (Deity who transforms worldly lust into spiritual awakening; his red-skinned appearance represents suppressed lust and passion), Kuni (God of love)

Canaanite: Astarte (Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare), Qetesh (Goddess of love, beauty and sex)

Celtic: Áine (Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty), Cliodhna (Irish goddess, sometimes identified as a goddess of love and beauty), Aengus (God of love, beauty, and dreams)

Chinese: Jiutian Xuannü (Goddess of war, sexuality, and longevity), Yue-Lao (God of love, who binds two people together with an invisible red string), Tu Er Shen (Deity who oversees the love between homosexual men), White Peony (Bai Mudan or Pai Mu-Tan) (Goddess who tempts men, especially ascetics), Wutong Shen (Group of five wanton deities from Southern China. They ravished and possessed beautiful women), Baimei Shen (Chinese god for prostitution and brothel. On her first assignment with a client, a prostitute was supposed to make sacrifice to him), Qian Keng (Peng Zu) (God of health-focused sex), Nüwa (Goddess of the wedding band and wedding jewelry. Represents Heaven and the never ending sexual desire between married couples), Chuangmu (Chinese goddess of the bedchamber. She and her husband Chuanggong look after everything that may happen in the bed room, including sex, sleep, and childbirth), King Zhou (One of worst tyrants in Chinese history. He is known as the god of sodomy)

Egyptian: Bes (God of music, dance, and he is also the dwarf god), Hathor (Goddess of the sky, love, beauty, and music), Bastet (Goddess of felines, love,protection, perfume, beauty, and dance), Min (God of reproduction, love, and sexual pleasure)

Etruscan: Albina (Goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers), Turan (Goddess of love and vitality)

Greek: The Erotes, Peitho (Personification of persuasion and seduction), Pan (God of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs, also associated with sexuality and fertility. Famous for his sexual powers and is often depicted with an erect phallus. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds. Pan's greatest conquest was that of the moon goddess Selene. He accomplished this by wrapping himself in a sheepskin to hide his hairy black goat form, and drew her down from the sky into the forest where he seduced her), Philotes (Goddess of Affection or a Daimon of sexual intercourse), Anteros (God of requited love), Eros (God of love and sexual desire), Himeros (God of sexual desire and unrequited love), Hedylogos (God of sweet talk and flattery), Hermaphroditus (God of hermaphrodites and of effeminate men), Hymen (God of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn), Pothos (God of sexual longing, yearning and desire)

Guaraní: Kurupi (God of sexuality and fertility)

Hindu: Kama (God of love and sexuality), Rati (Goddess of passion and lust, wife of Kama), Chama or Kamadeva (God of young love)

Lithuanian: Milda (Goddess of love and freedom)

Mesopotamian: Inanna or Ishtar (Goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare), Nanaya (Goddess personifying voluptuousness and sensuality)

Norse and Germanic: Freya (Goddess associated with love, beauty, magic, shamanism, seiðr, sacrifice, war, death, and sexuality), Freyr (Worshipped as a phallic fertility god; he was said to "bestow peace and pleasure on mortals"), Frigg (Goddess of marriage, married women, household duty, and divination), Lofn (Goddess of forbidden loves; servant of the queen of Asgard, Frigg), Sjöfn (Goddess associated with love)

Persian: Anahita (Ancient water goddess, fertility goddess, and patroness of women, marriageable girls and childbirth)

Roman: Venus (Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite), Cupid (Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros), Suadela (Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Peitho)

Slavic: Dogoda (Polish spirit of the west wind, associated with love and gentleness), Dzydzilelya (Polish goddess of love and marriage and of sexuality and fertility), Lada (Fakeloric goddess of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty), Siebog (God of love and marriage), Živa (Goddess of love and fertility)

Turco-Mongol: Aisyt (Goddess of fertility)

Vodun: Baron La Croix, lwa (Of the dead and sexuality), Baron Samedi, lwa (Of the dead, sex and resurrection), Erzulie Freda Dahomey, lwa (Of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers)

Yoruba: Mami Wata (Pantheon of water deities sometimes associated with love and lust), Osun (Goddess of love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy), Yemoja (Mother goddess of the oceans, fertility, prosperity, peace, and protection)

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