(picture from 01greekmythology.blogspot.com)
The daughter of Nyx, the Goddess of the night, Philotes was a minor Goddess who appears in a few surviving stories, including Hesiod's Theogony.
She's the Goddess of affection, friendship, and sexual intercourse. She was a force for good in the universe, balancing the bad that Eris, the Goddess of Discord, brings into the world. (I think we could ALL use a lot more Philotes in our world right now instead of all this Eris we're dealing with!)
And here's a fun bit of trivia: Her name was applied to a genus of butterflies in North America: the Philotes sonorensis (pictured below).
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