Kuan Yin: Goddess of Compassion LINKS TO PAGES ON THIS SITE : Paintings 1999-2000Images and myths of Asherah, Diana, Gaia & Daphne, Hathor, Hel, Kybele, Lady of Wild Creatures, Padma-Lakshmi, Rhea, Sarasvati, and Sekhmet at Karnak ...
Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. This page contains stories of Aphrodite and the loves of gods and men including the birth of Eros (Love), the many loves of Zeus, Hades' abduction of Persephone, the romance of
Eros- The god of love. He was thought of as a handsome and intense young man, attended by Pothos ("longing") or Himeros ("desire"). Later mythology made him the constant attendant of his mother, Aphrodite, goddess of love. The powers of Eros areoften mentioned during a free psychic ...
Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. This page describes Aphrodite's sexual liaisons with mortal men. Although five are described by classical writers, only the stories of Adonis and Anchises are elaborated upon i
The mythology surrounding the figure of Ares is not extensive. He was associated withAphroditefrom earliest times; in fact, Aphrodite was known locally (e.g., at Sparta) as a war goddess, apparently an early facet of her character. Occasionally, Aphrodite was Ares’legitimatewife, and by her...
described as a virgin originally, but virginity was attributed to her very early and was the basis for the interpretation of her epithetsPallasand Parthenos. As a war goddess Athena could not be dominated by other goddesses, such asAphrodite, and as a palace goddess she could not be violated...
Believed to protect against impotence, these handheld carvings were discovered in the ancient Mesopotamian temple of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Inanna would later fuse with the Akkadian goddess Ishtar, and influence later Ugaritic and Phoenician goddesses who inspired Aphrodite. Inanna's cult dispersed...
The love goddess Aphroditesprang up from the foam from Sky's severed genitals. From Sky's blood dripping on Earth sprang the spirits of Vengeance (Erinyes) also known as the Furies (and sometimes known euphemistically as "the Kindly Ones"). ...
In the 7th year in Roman poet Ovid (Ovidius) of the deformation of about 250 in a fairy tale, princess, ear foamborn Aphrodite is an incredibly handsome youth, sub-Saharan, the Carriacou, the princess of the mountain springs of water goddess love for him, the request to God that she ...
son of the Titan Iapetos, sees Artemis and thinks about raping her. Reading his sinful thoughts, Artemis strikes him at Mount Pholoe. Sipriotes is a boy, who, either because he accidentally sees Artemis bathing or because he attempts to rape her, is turned into a girl by the goddess. ...