Aphrodite Is You, and You are Her.
If a goddess can be Unholy, Killer of Men, the Dark One, the Gravedigger, but also The Heavenly, The Golden. The Mother, so can you.
She who was considered perfection, although she embodied violence, unholiness, sin, and bloodshed.
She who was adored and worshipped, she who was chained in Sparta for her skill in battle.
She is the Mother of Love, of Grace and of Harmony.
She is the Mother of Fear, of Panic, of Desire, and Revenge of the Scorned.
She is the lover of war, sister to Chaos and Destruction.
She is a goddess who brings life through love, and death through passion. She is the goddess who protects women, who kills the ones who have scorned Her.
She carries with her the love that drives men to insanity, and the passion that drives artists to create.
She is a punisher, a killer, a warrior. She is a wife, a mother, a goddess. She is Aphrodite of War, and Aphrodite the Heavenly.
She is of the ocean that cleanses, of the ocean that destroys cities and civilizations.
She is the one who will punish those who have scorned you, and she will drip with blood and pearls and gold.
She may be the goddess of love and romance, but do not forget she is sister to Chaos and Destruction, sister to the Furies, lover of War and mother of Fear and Panic.
She is beautiful, she is Heavenly. She is mutilated, and she is Unholy. She can be made of sunlight and flowers, and blood and bones. She is not always beautiful, because sometimes love and passion are ugly and twisted things.
She is holy and a sinner. She is perfection, and she is beloved.
She is Aphrodite the Dark One. Aphrodite the Mother. She is you, and you are her, because you both have holiness, have sin, have love.
Embody not only the pure, sacred, Aphrodite the Golden, Aphrodite the Heavenly, Aphrodite of The Gardens: but also the bloody, sinful, Aphrodite Killer of Men, Aphrodite the Gravedigger, and Aphrodite the Unholy, the Aphrodite that Greece tried to erase, the Aphrodite that was remembered even today because people do not forget the gods that they carry with them.
She will walk with you, and she will share your sins and your accomplishments, and then she will lay you down into your grave with a kiss.
No matter your looks or religion or your birth, the holiness inside you is not simply purity and lack of sin. It is purity and blood and violence and sin and everything that makes you human. That is Perfection, and Perfection is you. That is the message of Our Holy Aphrodite.
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