One of the most famous and respected on Olympus is the goddess Aphrodite. She was born near the island of Cyprus from sea white foam, and sailed to the sacred island of Kiefer at that time. On the marvelous beauty of the sink, she reached the shore.
The goddess was immediately surrounded by the young goddesses of the seasons, ory, and dressed her in gold-woven clothes and a wreath of flowers. Wherever Aphrodite’s foot stepped, 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, harit and ohr. She was also accompanied by a dove. In ancient Greek myths, Aphrodite is the goddess of childbirth and marriage.
She possessed a chic figure, was beautiful and slender, her skin was soft and white, her eyes as deep as the sea, with wonderful light radiate warmth and love. She is tall, golden-haired, among all the gods of Olympus immediately stood out and caught her eye. The goddess of beauty and love, Aphrodite, seemed to subjugate all the gods, only Athena, Artemis and Hestia were not subject to her power. To those who rejected love, it was simply ruthless.
Aphrodite in the hearts of gods and ordinary mortals, birds and animals awakens love. When she steps on the ground, all animals follow her in pairs, the deer walking safely next to the predatory bear, and the ferocious lions fall at the goddess's feet, like kittens playing. She gives youth and beauty to girls, blessing their happy marriages. As a gift to the goddess in gratitude for this, before the wedding, the girls brought the belts woven by them.
The goddess Aphrodite introduced into our world an unearthly beauty and love, especially sensual, but, alas, false. 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 for her husband Hephaestus, the ugliest, lame god of fire and blacksmithing, the most skillful of all.
The windy goddess Aphrodite very often cheated on her husband. She deceived him with the handsome Ares - the god of war. Seeing them somehow woven in an embrace, the Sun God Helios told Hephaestus everything.
In blind fury, he forged the finest, almost invisible net, and fixed it over their bed, and spread the rumor of his absence, and Ares immediately rushed to Aphrodite. But as soon as the lovers found themselves on a bed, a network instantly fell on them, fettering their movements. Hephaestus was offended, humiliated and madly angry at Aphrodite. As a result, Poseidon - the god of the seas - still managed to reconcile the spouses. Subsequently, the goddess Aphrodite gave birth to Ares of three children.
One of her passionate and ardent fans was also Hermes, to whom Aphrodite, the goddess of love, gave birth to a son Hermaphrodite. He was beautiful and beautifully built.
Nymph Salmakida fell in love with him, but without reciprocity, and in order to stay with her beloved forever, she persuaded the gods to combine them together. So, according to an ancient myth, the very first bisexual creature appeared.
The most powerful love of Aphrodite, perhaps, was the handsome Adonis - the son of the beautiful Mirra, whom the gods turned into a myrrh tree, which gives a beneficial resin. Adonis soon died of a wound on a hunt caused by a wild boar. Roses began to bloom from the drops of his blood, and anemones from the bitter tears of Aphrodite. According to another version, the death of Adonis is the result of the anger of Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite.
