Aphrodite - Goddess of Love and Beauty - Greek Goddess

Aphrodite - Goddess of Love and Beauty

Aphrodite ("foam-arisen"), goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the Venus. She was said to have been born when Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea. Her festival, Aphrodisia, was celebrated across Greece.

Devotees celebrated the day by decorating small toy boats with flower garlands and sending them out to sea bearing petitions for Aphrodite.

--~Attributes and Correspondences~--

Area of Influence:
Love, Beauty, Pleasure, Procreation

Pantheon: Greek

Abode: Mount Olympus

Animals: Dolphin, Dove, Sparrow, Swan, Goose, Partridge

Colours: Yellow, Gold, Pink, Red, Copper, Sea Green

Consort: Hephaestus, Dionysus, Ares, Adonis

Crystal: Copper, Rose Quartz, Aventurine

Day: Friday

Direction: -

Element: Water

Incense: -

Musical Instrument: -

Offerings: Apples, Pomegranates, Frankincense, Myrrh, Perfume, Chocolates, Roses, Myrtle, Honey, Wine

Planet: Venus, The Sun

Plant/Tree: Rose, Myrtle, Apples, Lime Tree

Rune: -

Symbols: Scallop Shell, Girdle, Mirror, 6

Tarot Card: The Lovers

Time: Summer Solstice

Greek - Gods and Goddesses

Bibliography

• The Witches God - Janet and Stewart Farrar
• The Witches Goddess - Janet and Stewart Farrar
• A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - George Hart
• Celtic Goddesses - Miranda Green
• Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia - Jeremy Black and Anthony Green
• Maori Religion and Mythology - Edward Shortland
• The Greek Myths - Robert Graves
• Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines, 2-Volume Set - Patricia Monaghan
• Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors - Wilhelm Wägner Macdovvall
• The Mythology of all Races - Vol 1-12 - Louis H Gray
• The Ancient Gods Speak - Edited by Donald B Redford
• The Pyramid Texts - Faulkner
• Aradia, Gospel of the Witches - Charles G. Leland
• Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas - H. A. Guerber
• The Theogony of Hesiod - translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White 1914
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities, 2-Volume Set - Charles Russell Coulter and Patricia Turner
• Wikipedia

[These pages use text from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.]