God of love — Mythoi

Motif

God of love.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · Gods of the earth. · Gods of abstractions. · view the constellation · filed as A475

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Aeneid , Book 1
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 25
Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , Tiriel
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Paradise 13

Filed across the traditions

Hindu Keith 141
Greek Roscher I 1339 s.v. "Eros".
general Krappe "Diarmuid and Grainne" FL XLVII (1936) 347–361. – Irish myth: Cross
general Penzer X 163 s. v. "God of Love"

Within the index

Filed under Gods of abstractions.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Cupid with arrows of lead and gold Marriage-god Goddess of love

Filed beside it

God of wisdom God of beauty God of fate God of justice God of the arts Goddess of fame God of happiness The three Graces God of prophecy God of sleep God of wealth Gods of youth and age Goddess of chastity Goddess of childbirth God of disease God of intoxication (or of wine)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Image of God of Love sent to fetch bride. (Cf. A475.)

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