Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, but unlike her Roman counterpart Venus, not only sexual love but also of affection and all impulses that are basic to social life.
Venus (Greek Aphrodite)
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1. The goddess of beauty and sensual love, identified with the Aphrodite (which was less directly sexual) and the Babylonian goddess .
Now, three of the invited goddesses,*** Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, each immediately claimed it to belong to herself because of the inscription. And they started fighting, and they started throwing punch all over the place and everything.
There is the wonderful Hermaphrodite, beautiful, strong and mighty, evolved under the immediate direction of the Lords of Venus for their own use, they being a perfected humanity, male-female having passed beyond the separation of sexes ; ...
Then the round of this second cycle of transformation is complete and the hermaphrodite arises in illustration 17, displaying the perfection of the Red Stone.
How much more clearly we understand the world when we see that Hera, Aphrodite and Athena all have their demands! We don't fret over which is "God's Will" when we see that there are three goddesses, each with Her own will.
"Of the Immortal Man it should be said that He is hermaphrodite, or male and female, and eternally watchful. He neither slumbers nor sleeps, and is governed by a Father also both male and female, and ever watchful.
Angry with the Trojan prince Paris for preferring Aphrodite, Goddess of love, to herself, Hera aided the Greeks in the Trojan War and was not appeased until Troy was finally destroyed. Hera also became known as the protectress of Argo.
] (as one word) is 'Aphrodite' (Venus), and [Syr.] (the [Syr.] of B.M.) is 'Kronos' (Saturn), and they are two of the seven names derived from the stars, taken as representing guardian spirits, I will not determine. Even the word [Syr.] in B.M.
I regard the human body neither as the image of You-Know-Who [God] nor as the temple of Miss Aphrodite. I would describe it as a gravity-resisting mechanism of extreme vulnerability in constant danger of going wrong.
Proclus' Hymns - includes one of his two surviving hymns on Aphrodite - Robert van den Berg
Henads and the Unknowable Godhead
Participated and Unparticipated realities ...
It can be seen that many of Mary's attributes are derived from goddesses of an earlier period, one example is the doves of Aphrodite. Her image is also derived from older sources.
"Ishtar" became "Aphrodite," then "Venus""and though her warlike side from the Babylonian era disappeared, she always remained the goddess of love and of horticulture. "Marduk" became "Zeus" and then "Jupiter.
Examples would include many Renaissance artists and philosophers, the Masonic Druids, Aleister Crowley's Thelemic religion, Gleb Botkin's "Long Island Church of Aphrodite," etc. See Neopaganism and Paleopaganism.
 See also: World, Spirit, Gods, Ritual, Spiritual
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