Geography/Culture: Italy: Early Italian, Roman. In Roman cities the temple of Venus should stand outside the pomoerium at the harbour.
Linguistic Note: The root found in the Norse vanir, is the same as that of Latin venustus, charming, graceful. Related English words: win, winsome, wont, wean, wish, venerate, venereal, venom, venial, venison. IndoEuropean *wenos, desire, from base *wen-, to strive for, attain
Description: Originally Goddess of growth, tilled fields, flower and kitchen gardens; delighting and delightful Spirit of the beauty of orderly nature.
When influenced by Greek Aphrodite, {Froth-of-Replication}, Venus, Epitome-of-Grace-and-Charm, became Goddess of sexual love, human passion, procreation and the sea; Matron of lovers, especially of young flirtacious lovers.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Venus.
To Whom Sacred: white-heather (protection against acts of passion); apples; quince; wild-strawberries; herbs; pine-cones; cypress-trees; bees; stones resting against tall trees (these are Her natural altars and sanctuaries); kidneys; thumb (symbol of increase); the planet Venus (named after Her paralleling the naming of it after Inanna and Ishtar, etc); the number 72; friday; star tattooed on web of skin between thumb and fore-finger; the month of April.
Iconography: Botticelli's Venus (head only)
Festival: She had a part in the Floralia April 29 -- May 03, and in the Vinalia Rustica, August 09.
Male Associate: Her consort, deliberatly paralleling Greek mythology, is Mars, God of War.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She was identified by the Romans, with Greek Aphrodite, {Froth-of-Replication}.
• Her earlier form is said to be equivalent to Greek Charis, Graceful-One, Who is linked with the Chariteae, Graceful-Ones.
• Cloacina, {Queen-of-Sewage}, was assimilated to Her.
• She sometimes bore the sur-title Columba, The-Dove, (Venus-Columba), perhaps as death Goddess.
• She is also called: Erycina, ----. {I have an idea this is to do with heather by it's not showing up in the online dictionary}
• Sur-title Felix, Happy, linked with Felicitas, Happiness.
• Sur-title Genetrix, She-Who-Brings-Forth, (Venus-Genetrix).
• Venus, Epitome-of-Grace-and-Charm, is sometimes equated with Germanic Holda, {The-Benignant}, Who is linked with Hulda, The-Benignant.
• Title, or also called Libitina, ----, below.
• You might think that the title Genetrix, She-Who-Brings-Forth would have caused Her to be identified with Sulis, She-Who-Brings-Forth, in Britain.
• See also Celtic Welsh Nantosvelta, {Winding-River}, Whose dove-cot might relate Her to Venus-Columba.
• She was equated with Etruscan Turan, Great-Goddess.
• Title, Pompeiana, {Pompeii's-Queen}, Venus of Pompeii.
• She became Christianized as Saint-Venere, below.
• Sur-title Victrix, {She-Who-Brings-Victory}, (Venus-Victrix). She is linked with Victoria, She-Who-Bestows-Victory.

Geography/Culture:Roman.
Linguistic Note: from Latin liber, free. Related English words: liberal, liberate, liberty, livery, deliver. From IndoEuropean root leudh-, to mount up, grow. By a false identification of Her name with libido She was sometimes considered Goddess of passion, and thus connected with the late form of Venus Who had a temple in Her grove.
Description: Goddess of death and burials; She from Whose sacred grove the wood for funeral pyres was cut; the chthonic side of the Goddess of love.
To Whom Sacred: grove.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Venus, Epitome-of-Grace-and-Charm, above.

Geography/Culture: Balkan.
Description: In the Balkans She is invoked as a Matron of marriage by young girls when making a wish that they might find good husbands.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Calabrian variant: Saint-Venerina.
• Christianised form of Venus, Epitome-of-Grace-and-Charm, above.