History Main / LoveGoddess

** ''Art/{{Cupid and Psyche|Bouguereau}}'': Or Love God, as is the case with Cupid.

This character is regarded as a deity of love (which, more often than not, includes sexual lust as well). Most likely a member of the setting's ruling pantheon, but could be any character (including a mortal) who is regarded by other characters as a goddess of love. Male love gods are included in this trope. It is called "Love Goddess" rather than "Love Deity" because the females are much more common, owing to [[LoveBeALady love being associated more with the feminine]].

This character is regarded as a deity of love (which, more often than not, includes sexual lust as well). Most likely a member of the setting's ruling pantheon, but could be any character (including a mortal) who is regarded by other characters as a goddess of love. Male love gods are included in this trope. It is called "Love Goddess" rather than "Love Deity" because the females are much more common.

* ''Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau'': The painting's central figure is the Roman goddess of love. The piece makes this evident by showing the nymphs and centaurs around her in sheer shock and adoration at the sight of such a beautiful woman. As if they've fallen in love with her. Or with each other because of her presence.

* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/{{Chemistry}}''. The WingedUnicorn Cadance is the Goddess of Love and, subsequently, Lust as well. Without medication, she goes into a [[MatingSeasonMayhem heat-like state]] where she has an attraction to AnythingThatMoves and suffers from love magic PowerIncontinence.

* Mistress Love is one of the cosmic forces in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
* Aphrodite appeared in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'', but resigned because she no longer felt she could serve in that role. She was succeeded by the siren [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Venus]].

* Freya is one of the main characters in ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'', and is presented as an EthicalSlut and one of the saner members of the cast. One album ("Freya's Necklace") focuses on Heimdall, Odin and Freya and how she as Goddess of Love embodies both the physical and emotional acts of love ([[DirtyOldMan Odin is only interested in her sexually]], while [[KnightInShiningArmor Heimdall]] [[CourtlyLove is only interested her platonically]]).
* The Predator Entity of the Emotional Spectrum in the Franchise/DCUniverse seems to be one, as it is the embodiment of the violet light of love.
* [[ComicBook/TheEnchantress Amora the Enchantress]] in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' technically counts as she used to be Freyja in a previous Asgardian incarnation, and [[LivingAphrodisiac her power]] emphasizes [[TheVamp seduction]] and [[MsFanservice sex appeal]].
* There's a [[http://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/nellbrinkley/5.php#anchor towheaded cupid]] following the protagonist of ''ComicBook/GoldenEyesAndHerHeroBill'' who's alternately referred to as Love, "[[AllCaps LOVE]]," and "The God of Love."
* Aphrodite is one of the main patron goddesses of the Amazons in ''Franchise/WonderWoman''.
* ''ComicBook/FinePrint'': The Cupids, who spread love by firing golden arrows into humans which cause love (they can also be used on Cubi, but it causes pleasure instead).

* As you might expect, a number of these appear in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', you actually look one up to get a friend of yours some romantic advice.

* UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} has an interesting version: the demon king is named Mara, which means "death," but can also be called Kama or Mara-Kama, with ''kama'' meaning "love." He basically symbolizes everything that can keep someone from enlightenment, and tried to tempt the Buddha from meditation with his three daughters, Taṇhā (Craving), Arati (Boredom), and Raga (Passion). However, the Buddha only saw them as decrepit old hags, and his resilience was enough to earn their praise. Although Mahayana/Vajrayana forms of Buddhism also have a more straight example on Tara, a female Buddha with many atributes, granting love among them.

* We get a strange example from the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga and its prequel ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'': Minako may be of human birth, but is openly described by Artemis and others as the goddess of beauty, love and war, unable to ever find her true love (in fact the one person she had ever truly loved [[spoiler: died by her hand at the end of ''Sailor V'' because he was a Dark Kingdom underling]], and it's made clear she would always choose duty over love) but capable of bringing lovers together with her mere presence. Note that she is the ''only'' character in the series ever called a goddess or anything divine (with the exception of Sailor Pluto, who has been described as a goddess of time).

** Venus -- Roman Goddess of Love and Sexuality -- is one of the goddesses trying to rescue Proserpina.

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--> '''Cupid''': (While hugging Castiel) Love is more than word to me you know. I love love. I love it and if that's wrong I don't wanna be right.

** The series also shows Cupids a few time, who are basically spirits who spread love. [[spoiler: Phoebe ends up marrying one.]]

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* Several Indo-European dawn goddesses, such as the Hindu Ushas and baltic Aushrine, a function that was probably inherited by the common Proto-Indo-European goddess from which they descend, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausos Hausos]]. Hausos was the embodiment of Venus, the Morning Star, which means that most of her derivatives, especially Eos from Myth/ClassicalMythology may have also been love goddesses.

** Hathor is effectively Aphrodite's Egyptian counterpart (in fact, they were sometimes believed to be the same deity) and is the LauncherOfAThousandShips in Egyptian mythology - it's probably easier to find a god she ''hasn't'' been paired up with in some myth or other. She's a goddess of love, sex, food, music, drunkenness, joy, beauty, motherhood, the stars, and the sky; she also has a connection to fate and is one of a few goddesses that helps the dead in the afterlife. She's also very, ''very'' sexual, even by the standards of Egyptian mythology; in one myth, Ra was sulking on the floor, so she "exposed her vagina before his very eyes", which led him to laugh and get up.

** It should be noted that both Hathor and Bast had much darker aspects, though - either or both were believed to have a much darker aspect known as Sekhmet (or Sakhmet or a number of other spellings) that came out when they were particularly angered. Interestingly, Sekhmet was primarily a goddess of war, plagues, and poisons (although sometimes also of healing), showing that the line between LoveGoddess and WarGod isn't always that thick. In one myth, the gods unleashed Sekhmet to punish humanity, but she quickly went far beyond their intentions, and she got so literally (not figuratively) bloodthirsty that she threatened to wipe out humanity entirely. Ra's solution was to fill a lake with beer and dye it red to make her believe it was blood. After she drank the ''entire lake'', she got so drunk she forgot about her rampage and returned to being Hathor. Egyptologists hold that the dichotomy between Sekhmet and Hathor (or Bast) illustrates ancient Egyptians' conception that femininity, in Carolyn Graves-Brown's words, "encompassed both extreme passions of fury and love."

*** Some theorists (notably Creator/{{Plato}}) divided Aphrodite into two aspects or personas, Aphrodite Urania, the "heavenly Aphrodite" of sublime love, and what in the Roman version was called Venus Vulgivaga, the "Venus of the people" who was in charge of purely sexual love. In some versions Aphrodite had a dark aspect, for instance in Sparta she was portrayed wearing armour and one of her epithets was ''Androphonos'' "the man-killer".
*** It should be noted that the ancient Greeks (or at least some of their philosophers) didn't view "love" between a man and woman as a good thing. Partially because it was considered an animal's instinct and a distraction from more important things such as war and philosophy depending on the area, and partially because they believed women to be objects, and therefore loving them was inferior to their "people"-centered loves of agape and philia. This led the ancient Greeks (or, again, at least certain mythographers and poets) to see Aphrodite as a villainous figure.
%%*** Venus (in the Roman version)
** Eros (or Pothos) in Greek Mythology. Aphrodite's son, sent (sometimes reluctantly) to put his mother's nefarious plots in action. Portrayed much more sympathetically than his mother. Depends on who tells the story. In Hesiod's ''Theogony'', Eros is one of the primal gods (brother to Gaia and Tartaros) and thus older than Aphrodite. Also in most myths Eros engages in all kinds of mischief without needing Aphrodite's orders to do so. The story of Eros and Psyche, where he is portrayed as her reluctant servant, is so late that it can be considered literature more than actual mythology.
%%*** Amor (or Cupid(o)) (in the Roman version)

* ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has multiple goddesses of beauty like Freya and Ishtar who are breathtakingly beautiful and possess [[ThePornomancer the ability to make anyone fall in love and give them orgasms]].

* * ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'':

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has multiple goddesses of beauty like Freya and Ishtar who are breathtakingly beautiful and possess [[ThePornomancer the ability to make anyone fall in love and give them orgasms]].
* ''LightNovel/TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTime'' has Vida, goddess of Life and Love and one of the eleven High Gods of Lambda, who was sealed by Alda the GodOfOrder thousands of years ago for creating several races that disgusted Alda. She is considered the biggest patron of Vandalieu the protagonist.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': According to Eorzean mythology, Menphina the Lover is the goddess of love and the divine lover of Oschon the Wanderer. Rather than solely representing carnal or romantic love, Menphina presides over love in all its forms. She's said to reward those who give as much love as they receive and her followers beseech her for solace, shelter, and hope. [[spoiler:When she appears in the Euphyrosyne raid, she's overflowing with compassion for everyone, telling the heroes that the Twelve listen to each and every prayer even though they do not have the power to answer them all.]]

* The film ''Film/OneTouchOfVenus'' and its remake have a statue of Venus de Milo coming to life and understandably causing wacky hijinx in the protagonist's life.