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Catal Huyuk's goddess (~6500 BC): name unknown, femalePlane Sailing said:Indeed, considering Eros, Pan, possibly even Baal (and Ishtar?) the Caananite gods which had formalised temple prostitution... Plenty of historical beliefs to choose from to model gods of lust.
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Sumerian (~2000 BC): Inanna, female
Babylonian (~1750 BC): Ishtar, female
Phoenician/Canaanite (~1200 BC): Astarte (an Ishtar clone) and Anath, sometimes combined to form Atargatis, all female
But we do have some males later--
Greek: Aphrodite (love/beauty, female), Eros the Protogonos (ancient deity of love and natural procreation, male), Eros the younger(god of love and inducing love, male), Himeros (god of sexual desire, male), Pothos (god of passionate longing, male)
Norse: Freya, female
Celtic: Morrigan (magic, lust, war, female), Aonghus (sensual love, male), Aine (Irish--love, fertility, passionate rites in spring, female)
Egyptian: Hathor (love, fertility, female), Bast (sensual pleasure, female, and hey, she's FR's goddess of pleasure too!)
Voodoo: Erzuli (Fertility, Love, Sex, Beauty, and somehow Virginity too, female)
Aztec: Ichpuchtli (lust, pleasure, female), Xochiquetzal (fertility, love, sensual pleasure, sex, female), Chalchiuhtlicue (love, beauty, female), Eueucoyotl (fertility, sex, male), Tlazolteotl (sex, licentiousness, female)
Mayan: Backlum Chaam (sex, particularly male sexuality, male), Ix Chel (sex, female), Xtabay (seduction, female)