One of the most famous and respected on Olympusis the goddess Aphrodite. She was born near the island of Cyprus from the snow-white sea foam, and sailed to the sacred island of Kiefer at that time. At the wondrous beauty of the shell, she got to the shore.
The goddess was immediately surrounded by the young goddesses of the seasons, ores, and dressed her in gold-lined garments and a wreath of flowers. Everywhere Aphrodite's foot went, everything blossomed, and the air filled with fragrance.
Aphrodite was not only the patroness of love,but also the goddess of eternal spring, life and fertility. According to an ancient legend, she always appeared surrounded by her companions - nymphs, harites and ors. Also she was accompanied by a dove. In the ancient Greek myths Aphrodite is the goddess of birth and marriage.
She possessed a chic figure, was beautiful andslender, her skin is tender and white, her eyes are deep, like the sea, radiantly radiant with warmth and love. She is tall, golden-haired, she stood out among all the gods of Olympus and riveted her gaze to herself. The goddess of beauty and love of Aphrodite seemed to subjugate all the gods, only Athena, Artemis and Hestia are beyond her power. To those who rejected love, she was simply ruthless.
Aphrodite in the hearts of gods and ordinary mortals, birdsand animals wakes love. When she walks on the ground, all the animals are walking in pairs behind her, with a deer walking alongside a predatory bear, and ferocious lions fall at the feet of the goddess, like kittens playing. Youth and beauty she gives to girls, blessing their happy marriages. As a gift to the goddess, in gratitude for this before the wedding, the girls were brought weave belts.
The goddess Aphrodite introduced into our world the unearthly beauty and love, especially sensual, but, alas, unfaithful. Therefore, she did not get along with the goddess Hero, the keeper of family ties.
Noticing the magnificent Aphrodite on Olympus, all the gods immediately fell in love with her, but she chose to become the husband of Hephaestus, the ugliest, lame-footed god of fire and blacksmithing, the most skilful of them all.
The windy goddess Aphrodite cheated on her husband very often. She was deceiving him with the handsome Ares, the god of war. Seeing them somehow, woven in his arms, the God of the sun Helios told all to Hephaestus.
В слепой ярости тот выковал тончайшую, almost invisible network, and secured it over their bed, and spread the rumor about his absence, and Ares immediately rushed to Aphrodite. But as soon as the lovers found themselves on the bed, the network instantly fell on them, holding down their movements. Hephaestus was humiliated, humiliated, and madly angry with Aphrodite. As a result, Poseidon - the god of the seas - still managed to reconcile the spouses. In the future, the goddess Aphrodite gave birth to Ares three children.
One of her passionate and ardent admirers was also Hermes, to whom Aphrodite, the goddess of love, gave birth to her son Hermaphrodite. He was handsome and beautifully built.
Nymph Salmakida fell in love with him, but withoutreciprocity, and to remain forever with the beloved, she persuaded the gods to connect them together. Thus, according to ancient myth, the very first bisexual creature appeared.
Aphrodite’s strongest love may have beenthe handsome Adonis is the son of the beautiful Mirra, who was turned into a myrrh tree by the gods, which gives a beneficial resin. Adonis soon died from a wound in a hunt caused by a wild boar. From the drops of his blood began to bloom roses, and from the bitter tears of Aphrodite - anemones. According to another version, the death of Adonis is the result of the wrath of Ares, who jealous of Aphrodite.
