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[darkprvda]

Aphrodite Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty, and Fertility Statue

[koraki-grimoire]

Theoi Summary - Aphrodite

Αφροδιτη (ah-frroh-thEE-tee) - Aphrodite Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, procreation, fertility, and prostitutes Ouranic & Einalic Olympian

Symbols: Conch shell, hearts, jewelry, girdle, palace, dove or Triton-drawn chariot, mirror Animals: Dove, goose, seabird, swan, fish, shellfish, cockle, hare, pig Colors: Pink, white, gold, red Plants/Herbs: Rose, myrtle, apple, pomegranate, lettuce, anemone Stones/Crystals: Rose quartz, moonstone, pearl

Retinue: Eros, Pothos, Himeros, Antheia, Eileithyia, Harmonia, Hebe, Horai, Naiades, Nereids Relations: Ouranos’s genitals (father), Hephaistos (husband), Ares (consort), Adonis (surrogate son/consort), Erotes (sons), Iakkhos (son), Phobos (son), Deimos (son), Hermaphroditos (child), Harmonia (daughter), Priapos (son) Identified with: Venus (Roman), Hera (Hellenic), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Astarte (Phoenician), Hathor (Kemetic), Isis (Kemetic)

Festivals: Aphrodisia (4th Hek.), Hybristica (??), Arrhephoria (4 Skir.), honored on the 4th of every month

Epithets: Ourania (Heavenly), Pandemos (Common to All), Machanitis (Deviser), Epistrophia (She Who Turns to), Apostrophia (Averter), Praxis (Action), Symmachia (Ally in Love), Apaturus (Deceptive), Nymphia (Bridal), Migontis (Union), Doritis (Bountiful), Hera (Of Hera/Marriage), Morpho (Shapely), Pontia (Of the Sea), Kallipygos (Wonderful Buttocks), Areia (Of Ares/War)

[0thello]

The Birth of Venus (painting), 1890

by John Bulloch Souter.

[lovelypearls]

Aphrodite Ourania, most divine and heavenly. Shining as pure gold, rising delicately amidst the seafoam, adorned with glittering gems of pearly tears and locks of flaming red hair that cascade around you

Oh fairest goddess, bless us with your presence, hold and embrace us as we tremble at the mere sight of your holy beauty, and drown us deeply in the waves of your everlasting love

[goddessofseafoam]

From “Soft Spoken Spells: Poems for Your Inner Witch” by Nichole McElhaney

[venusdreams]

aphrodite; goddess of beauty

[lovecrumbss]

🐚 the birth of venus 🐚 - hirschl / botticelli / souter / cabanel / selous / redon / boucher / picou

[aly-naith]

cards: Aphrodite

[la-petitefille-deactivated20210]

Aphrodite Associations

🤍 Roses in various forms: Petals, bouquets, scented oils and incense, candles, rosebuds, and rose hips

🤍 Shades of pink, red, seafoam, white, and aqua

🤍 Rose Quartz, Pearls, Aquamarine, Sapphire, Silver, Jade, and Gold

🤍 Swans, dolphins, sparrows, bees, and doves

🤍 Myrtle, quince, apples, vanilla, verbena, musk, myrrh, vervain, mint, artichokes

🤍 Seashells, mirrors, jewelry, perfume bottles, cosmetics, and the Evening Star (the planet of Venus)

[lovelypearls]

Pearl moodboard offering for Aphrodite 💕

The sea-born pearl was the regarded as the stone of love, and so sacred to the goddess Aphrodite. They are said to be her tears of joy

[aphroditekaivenus]

Aphrodite of the Capitol

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[thegrapeandthefig]

“Aphrodite’s association with the sea and with seafarers is one of her most widely diffused functions and finds expression in numerous epithets: not just Ποντια but also Ευπλοια, Γαληναιη, Λιμενια and so on. A temple of Aphrodite located on the water’s edge was a feature of many Greek harbours. The Segre and Herzog texts present to us the clientele of Aphrodite of the Sea in the form of persons who are required to make sacrifice or a payment to her at stated intervals: the crew of warships, merchants, ship-owners and fishermen all emerge as particularly beholden to the goddess.”

-Robert Parker, The Cult of Aphrodite Pandemos and Pontia on Cos

[crimsonsongbird]

Prayer to Aphrodite

Aphrodite, Mother and Friend,

I thank you for the encouragement,

For the love you have so graciously given me.

I am grateful for the warmth you have provided

When the world’s too cold and I am falling apart.

Thank you for picking me up when I am too weak to stand

And for holding my hand when I feel hopeless and alone.

With your love and support,

I have started to find myself worthy and beautiful.

Thank you and hail to you, Mother.

[cculdrons]

Marble statue of Aphrodite, 2nd century B.C.

[ouranicadoration]

Poem to Aphrodite

I've been thinking about how the gods often don't stop bad things from happening, but they do help us to cope, and I wrote this on that topic! Hope you like ♡

O Aphrodite

Great goddess of love

And passion, of the intricacies

Of life and relations

Some will call You a fickle and

Inconstant goddess, who blesses

With one hand and curses

With Her other, yet it is

This that I worship, for

You are present from

Beginning to end

And love cannot be without

Its little pains

Out of love we worry

For our partners even when

It wrings us in half

And You sit with us

Ever comforting and telling

This is but the other side

Of caring with our all

For this I praise You

And it is through love

That we struggle and search

For compromise

Instead of breaking at first

Contact with difficulty

And You guide us forward

And bless us with resilience

Since so often it is struggle

That forges love stronger

And for this I sing of You

When the future comes

To pass and we are faced

By bitter loss, You

Will be there with us

Letting us grieve

Granting us healing

Mourning alongside us

And when the time comes

Opening our hearts again

That we may partake of

Your blessings again

Changed but never broken

Never forgetting what

By your adoring grace

The meaning of it all is

And for this I thank You

As even while you guide

Through tumultuous times

O goddess You are also the

Peace in between

Nights reading on picnic

Blankets, tender touches

Ephemeral but everything

Passionate kisses

And teasing words

The mutual knowledge

That we are understood

And the unspoken truth

That we are Loved

And for this I adore You

[blessed-with-hope]

“She spoke, and as she turned, her neck Shone with roselight. An immortal fragrance From her ambrosial locks perfumed the air, Her robes flowed down to cover her feet, And every step revealed her divinity.”

— Virgil, The Aeneid, I.494-514, trans. Lombardo

[wyveris]

She is not only there in the crystal blue waves Of golden sunrise and sunset; She too is there when the sun descends, Eyes glimmering in the starlight, Mischief, transcendence, longing and awe Reflected with every glance. Heavenly Aphrodite! Unholy Aphrodite! Under the veil of night She too rises, With grace elegant and deadly as the pitch black water; Pure and gentle as lilies in the moonlight. Streaks of pink and orange fade with the knowledge of day, For the darkness and the glow are Hers too, In all their dual-natured beauty, Gentle love in light And passion in shadow. She is the keeper of secrets Of lovers who meet in the night, And all of their sacred rites. Under the cover of night, She hunts down the enemies of love, Or glamours the innocents hiding from pitchforks and fire. Hers is love, silently and viciously at war. Hers is love, quietly and fondly dancing with the fireflies. Aphrodite Skotia, She who rules all love after dusk, In this ethereal hour I praise Her name.