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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AphroditeAphrodite - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Aphrodite (⫽ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː ⫽ ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) 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.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › InannaInanna - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯 ).

  3. Jun 26, 2024 · Explore the Aphrodite family tree, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty. Discover her divine lineage among the Olympian gods and her legacy in Greek mythology.

  4. Jun 10, 2024 · Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”), most renowned of the Norse goddesses, who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death. Her father was Njörd, the sea god.

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  5. Jun 27, 2024 · The moment you start speaking about beauty, the world will willingly join you and share ample examples of beautiful people, their definition, standards of beauty, etc. Similarly, talk about love, and many will tell their respective stories about love. But somehow, we forget that the origin of love a...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HeraHera - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Hḗrā; Ἥρη, Hḗrē in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.

  7. Jun 24, 2024 · Ishtar, in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love. Ishtar’s primary legacy from the Sumerian tradition is the role of fertility figure; she evolved, however, into a more complex character, surrounded in myth by death and disaster, a goddess of contradictory connotations and forces.