Aphrodite Body Care Bundle. 2 Piece Body Lotion for Intense Hydration and Supple Skin. Includes Body Lotion with Aloe Vera (200 ml) and Body Lotion with Mango & Papaya (200 ml)

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Hesiod states that the genitals "were carried over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew. The couple desecrate the temple by having sex in it, leading Cybele to turn them into lions as punishment. better source needed] Hellenists venerate Aphrodite primarily as the goddess of romantic love, [321] [ better source needed] but also as a goddess of sexuality, the sea, and war. A scholion on Theocritus's Idylls remarks that the sixth-century BC poet Sappho had described Eros as the son of Aphrodite and Uranus, [131] but the first surviving reference to Eros as Aphrodite's son comes from Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, written in the third century BC, which makes him the son of Aphrodite and Ares.

These girls by the wrath of Aphrodite (reasons unknown) cohabited with foreigners and ended their life in Egypt. She was annoyed at this, so she arrived with a golden apple inscribed with the word καλλίστῃ (kallistēi, "for the fairest"), which she threw among the goddesses. This gesture was believed to be an apotropaic symbol, and was thought to convey good fortune upon the viewer. Moreover, this lotion for sensitive skin is enriched with vitamin E which help to enhance its protective properties.

Aphrodite's most prominent avian symbol was the dove, [244] which was originally an important symbol of her Near Eastern precursor Inanna-Ishtar. Zeus chides her for putting herself in danger, [223] [224] reminding her that "her specialty is love, not war. Aphrodite's name is generally accepted to be of non-Greek (probably Semitic) origin, but its exact derivation cannot be determined. When Aphrodite gave birth, she was horrified to see that the child had a massive, permanently erect penis, a potbelly, and a huge tongue. She is a major deity in modern Neopagan religions, including the Church of Aphrodite, Wicca, and Hellenismos.

It contains carefully selected ingredients that positively affect the skin, such as organic cocoa and shea butter, virgin cold-pressed jojoba oil, and sunflower oil. Xanthius went straight to his daughter's chamber, where she was together with Leucippus right at the moment. A year later, the English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, painted Venus Verticordia (Latin for "Aphrodite, the Changer of Hearts"), showing Aphrodite as a nude red-headed woman in a garden of roses. Zeus settled the dispute by decreeing that Adonis would spend one third of the year with Aphrodite, one third with Persephone, and one third with whomever he chose.

Aphrodite had many other epithets, each emphasizing a different aspect of the same goddess, or used by a different local cult.

In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the young soldier Alectryon by the door to warn of Helios's arrival but Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. The ancient Romans identified Aphrodite with their goddess Venus, [84] who was originally a goddess of agricultural fertility, vegetation, and springtime. In 1605, Richard Barnfield lauded it, [299] declaring that the poem had placed Shakespeare's name "in fames immortall Booke".All three goddesses were ideally beautiful and Paris could not decide between them, so they resorted to bribes. Aphrodite has been featured in Western art as a symbol of female beauty and has appeared in numerous works of Western literature. Aphrodite lies and tells him that she is not a goddess, but the daughter of one of the noble families of Phrygia.