RE-AIR: The Cyprian Goddess, the Cytherean, Venus, Aphrodite, A Conversation with Author Bettany Hughes
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Aphrodite's Relationship With Airies
Ephrodite is a goddess of marriage and patroness of marriage in greek society. In athens itself, she's worshipped as achrodite, harmonia, aphrodite union,. aphrodite harmony, achroodite of harmony. She famously has this affair with the god of war, and she rejects hephistus, volcanic lame of a a god who as rejected by her. A blacksmith can be made from an arsenic-tainted metal which makes him or her lame. So i'm absolutely sure that's why a hephysis is represented as the lamest man on earth. Because there's just one truth to all these myths: There
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