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Αφροδιτη - Aphroditę
DIR By: Ashlin the gray
Date: February 12, 2021, 5:26 am
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Αφροδιτη - Aphroditę
Categories or Retinues to Which She Belongs:
Gamęlioi theoi - Gods of Marriage
Theoi Daitoi - Deities of feasts and banquets
Theoi Mousikoi - Deities of music, dance, and the arts
Domains:
Beauty
Birth
Love
Marriage
Pleasure
Procreation
War
Symbols:
Apples
Dove
Goose
Fish
Mirrors
Myrtle
Pearl
Pomegranate
Rose
Sparrows
Swallows
Swans
Traditional Offerings:
Flowers
Pigs
Goats
Young cows
Hares
Incense
Oil
Traditional Methods of Devotional Worship:
Prostitution
Epithets:
Αμβολογηερα
- Ambologęra - Delaying Old Age; she had a statue in Sparta
under this epithet
Κηποις - Anaduomenę - Rising Out
of the Sea
Antheia - Blooming
Απατουρος -
Apatouros - Deceitful
Αποστροφια -
Apotrophia - The Expeller; she was worshipped at Thebes as the
goddess who expelled from men the desire for sinful pleasure and
lust
Αρεια - Areia - Warlike; she was
represented in full armor under this epithet
Επιστροφια -
Epistrophia - She who Turns to Love
Kallipugos - a surname of Aphrodite under which she is depicted
distinctly as being soft, round, and full of form
Despoina - Ruling Goddess or Mistress
Genetullis - Protectoress of Birth
Μαχανιτις -
Męchanitis - Skilled in Inventing
Μελαινις - Melainis -
The Dark
Μιγωντις - Migôntis - Of
Union
Μορφω - Morphô - Fair Shaped
Νικηφορος -
Nikęphoros - Bringing Victory
Νυμφια - Nymphia - Bridal
Πανδημος - Pandęmos -
Common to All People
Peithô - Persuasive
Πραξις - Praxis - Sexual Action
Ουρανια - Ourania - Heavenly
Festivals:
4th of each lunar month is Sacred to Aphrodite
Adônia - Athenian festival taking place annually in honor of
Adonis’ death, it was one of a number of Athenian festivals
which were celebrated solely by women and addressed sexual or
reproductive subjects. Athenian women took to the rooftops of
their houses where they danced, sang, and ritually mourned
Adonis’ death. They planted "Gardens of Adonis" consisting of
lettuce and fennel seeds, planted in potsherds – which sprouted
before withering and dying. After the rooftop celebrations, the
women descended to the streets with these Gardens of Adonis, and
small images of the god; they then conducted a mock funeral
procession, before ritually burying the images and the remains
of the gardens at sea or in springs. Date is contested, most
likely placed in spring or summer.
Anagôgia - The Festival of Embarkation, held in Aphrodite’s
honor, when she leaves for Libya, and is followed nine days
later by Katagôgia.
Aphrodisia - An annual festival held in honor of Aphrodite.
First worshipers would purify the temple with the blood from a
dove. Afterwards, worshipers would carry sacred images of the
goddess in a procession to be washed. In Cyprus, participants
who were initiated into the Mysteries of Aphrodite were offered
salt, a representation of Aphrodite's connection to the sea, and
bread baked in the shape of a phallus. After the initial
sacrifice of the dove, it was not permitted to make bloody
sacrifices, since the altar could not be polluted.
Katagôgia - Celebration of Aphrodite’s return after Anagogia.
Birth:
Several accounts of Aphrodite's birth exist. Hesiod in the
Theogony claims Aphrodite was born of the sea foam that resulted
when Ouranos was castrated. Homer alleges that Aphrodite is the
daughter of Zeus and Dione, Titaness Goddess of the oracle of
Dodona in Thesprotia.
Children:
Anteros - God of recipricol love, son of Ares and Aphrodite
Beroe - Goddess of the city Beroe, daughter of Adonis and
Aphrodite
Deimos - God of fear, son of Ares and Aphrodite
Eros - God of love, mixed accounts of parentage. Some claim
Ares, others claim Aphrodite was born pregnant with Eros
Harmonia - Goddess of civil and marital harmony, daughter of
Ares and Aphrodite
Hermaphroditos - God son of Hermes and Aphrodite
Himeros - God of desire, twin brother of Eros
Iakkhos - A god of the Eleusinian Mysteries, son of Dionysos and
Aphrodite
Peitho - Goddess of persuasion and seduction, sometimes depicted
as a daughter of Aphrodite, alternatively a daughter of Okeanos
and Tethys
Phobos - Son of Ares and Aphrodite
Praipus - God of vegetable gardens beehives, flocks and
vineyards, parentage is disputed. Some claim a son of Dionysos
and Aphrodite, others of Hermes, others yet of Aphrodite and
Zeus, and others of Dionysos with varying nymphs.
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