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stalkerofthegods · 1 year ago

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Lady Aphrodite/Venus deep dive

Lady Aphrodite/Venus is Amazing and beautiful in soul and looks, graceful as a swan and as kind as a mother, I adore Lady Aphrodite/Venus as a worshiper and as a researcher, she is far beyond interesting, she is a powerful and wonderful goddess and a mother

Herbs • anemone, daffodil, myrtle, lettuce , pomegranate, apple, rosemary fresh roses, vanilla, cinnamon, cypress, jasmine, the olive tree, narcissus, honeysuckle, the apple tree, the lime tree, Strawberries, Oranges, Pears, lotus

Animals• hare, turtle-dove, sparrow, goose, swan, horses, hummingbirds, cats, butterflies, bees, fish, hare.

Symbols• Hearts, Seashells, Mirror, Girdles, Dolphins, Doves, Swans, Sparrows, Bees, Sea Foam, Pomegranates, Apples, Strawberries, Oranges, Pears

Colors • pink & red, rose gold , blue, green, white, gold, baby blue, pastel colors, Seafoam green, Aqua

Appearance in astral or general • many ancient artworks of her, depicted her with traditionally male features, like beards, along with traditionally female features, she can change looks many times, but no matter her looks she is the most beautiful alive.

Crystal• rose quarts, garnet, pearls, diamond, sapphire, aquamarine, opal, sea glass, silver, emerald, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, ocean jasper, morganite

Jewelry • pearls, rose gold, promise rings, diamonds

epithets of Aphrodite• Psytiros - whispering Aphrodite, epithet also is attributed to Eros, Euploia - a marine epithet to Aphrodite of easy sailing, fair voyage, Leaina -the Lioness, an epithet given to the Goddess by Athenian orator Democha, Praxis - Aphrodite of action, a statue to whom stood in the city of Megara, Peitho - as an epithet to Aphrodite, it describes Her a persuasive, Epiodoros - Aphrodite of bountiful gifts as She was titled by Greek poet Stesichoru, Argounis - shining Aphrodite, worshiped in Boeotia and likely associated with Dawn, Philomedes - Aphrodite of a lovely smile or smiling Aphrodite, Helikoblepharos - quick-glancing, or Aphrodite with an ever-moving eye, Polychrisou - rich in gold, rich in many golden gifts, Chrisopeplos - gold-clad, Aphrodite dressed in gold, Chrisostephanos - Aphrodite wearing a golden wreath, Chrisanios - Aphrodite holding golden rein as Her chariot was often said to be fully made of gold, Nikêphoros- She is the Warlike, Areia- She is the averter of unlawful desires and actions, Apostrophia- She is one who blessed marriage and unions, Migôntis- She is the one who turns to love, Ourania- Heavenly, Divine Love, Pandêmos- Common To All, Epistrophia - She who Turns to Love, Nympthia Hêrê - Of Hera of Marriage, Symmakhia- Ally in Love, Pontia - Of the Sea, Kypria - Of Cyprus, Pothon Mater - Mother of Desire, Chrysea- Golden, Aphrodite Urania (also spelt Ourania), Aphrodite Pandemos, Venus Genatrix, Peitho, - meaning persuasion, Philommeidḗs - "smile-loving", Cypris and Cythereia - for her association of Cyprus and Cythera, Eleemon, In Athens, she was known as Aphrodite in kopois ("Aphrodite of the Gardens”, At Cape Clias, a town along the Attic coast, she was venerated as Genetyllis "Mother", Aphrodite Euploia - of the fair voyage, Anaduomenê - The Goddess Who Arose From The Sea, Ambologêra - The Ons Who Delays Old Age, Antheia - The Blooming One / Friend Of Flowers , Apotrophia - The Expeller ( Of Shameful and Sinful Desire), Areia - The Warlike, Kupria/Kuprigeneia - The One Born in The Island Of Cyprus, Despoina - The Rulling Goddess/ The Mistress , Genetullis - The Protectress Of Births , Nikêphoros - Bringer Of Victory

Cult epithets • Ourania (heavenly) , Pandémos (common to all) , areia (of ares, warlike) , hòplismené (armed) , Symmakhia (ally in love)

Poetic epithets • Kypris ( of Cyprus) , philomeidês (laughter loving) , aphrogenia (foam born) khryseé (golden) Pothón Mêtêr (mother of desire)

Names• Venus, Aphrodite, Harthor, Astare, Priyah, inanna, isis, Freaya,

Mortal or immortal • immortal

Zodiac • Libra, taruas

How to get closer • sign her hymms or dance in her honor

Number• 5

Courting• Ares, she is no longer married.

Past lovers and flings • Anchises (a mortal in the past she dated), Adonis ( handsome young man killed by a boar (Ares in disguise), Dionysus, Zues (maybe), Hermes, Phaethon, Posideon, Butes, Apollon

Devine children • Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Eros, Anteros, pothos, hermaphrodios, (From the mortal Anchuses), Aeneas a mythical hero of Troy and Rome, and Lyrus/Lyrnus (From Butes), eryxs, Meligounis and several more unnamed daughters, Hymenajks, lacchus, priapus, the Charites, (graces: Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia) (From Dionysus) Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, The Erotes (Eros) , Anteros, Himeros , Pothos, from Ares, Hermaphroditos, Priapus, from Hermes, Rhodos from Posideon, Beroe, Golgos, Priapus (rarely) (from Adonis), Astynous from Phaethon, Priapus (from Zeus)

Attendees • The erotes, Harmonia, Hebe, peithos, the kharites , Naiades

Regions• Cyprus; Kytherea, Corinth, Eryx in Sicly

Holiest shrine• Paphos, island of Cyprus, (her birth place & seat of her mysteria)

Other shrines • Temples throughout Greece and Asia Minor and ur moms house. Some places, most notably Sparta, Thebes, and Cyprus honored her as a goddess of war.

Parents • Ouranos Sometimes it’s said that she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. And born from the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos.

Siblings • Aeacus, Angelos, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Pandia, Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, the Graces, the Horae, the Litae, the Muses and the Moirai.

personality• she isn’t intimidating at first, she likes not having already used products on her alter if possible, a clean, nice smelling alter.

dislikes• She does not like Medusa, she wants nothing to do with her for some reason, just what I’ve heard from people who worshiped Aphrodite and Medusa in close timelines

Diety of • Sex, libido, self-image, self-love, relationships, friendships, parent love and pet love, crushes, lust, procreation, seduction, pleasure, happiness, sadness, passion, stalking, ports, port homes

Home• Olympus and was living in the sea before Olympus

Hate• Boars, pigs.

Likes• Faries, unicorns, butterflies, lacy & frilly things, music boxes, ballet, cars.

Roots• Greek, born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus

Offerings • pastries, cakes, , olive branches, dark chocolate, wine, apples, perfume, makeup, Pomegranate: said to be first planted by Aphrodite herself, Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Figs, Watermelon, Sea shells, handheld mirrors/ beautifully ornate mirrors, makeup products, perfumes (sweet/sensual/seductive ones), skin/body care products, fruits, apples, lettuce, pomegranates, chocolates, sugar and cream, honey, wine (rosé or sweet-scented), sweetened rose tea, rose quartz, pearls, jewelry, roses, flower bouquets, statues of her sacred animals (ex- swans) , myrtle or myrrh incense, pink/gold/white candles, seawater, the artwork of her, devotional poems, self-care routines, ritual baths, have a rose garden that you can take care of in her name if possible, be supportive of women and the LGBTQ+ community. • olive oil, fruit, honey, chocolate, dark chocolate (she loves it) , Apples/golden apples, Mermaids, Jewelry, Cherries, Dolphins imagery, Perfumes, Cologne, Makeup, Combs, Affirmations/Affirmation Cards, Beach Sand, Sea imagery, Water, Love poems, Oyster shells, Pink Salt, Driftwood, Sea glass, Amenome/Roses/Carnations, Other flowers, Valentine's Day gifts, Teddy bears, Rose water, Eros/Cupid imagery, Cakes, (Dress up) Dolls, Chapstick/lipstick, Fishnets, Honey cakes, Undergarments, Hearts, Handheld fans, Pictures of loved ones, Condoms/lube(18+), Lingerie(18+), Undergarments(18+), Sex toys(18+), NSFW magazines/books/movie(18+) (AND I MEAN IT WHEN I SAY 18+, OR ASK HER!!), roses, Myrtles, Apples, Pomegranates, Honey, Chocolates, Cookies or cakes made to look like one of Her symbols (ex- hearts), Strawberries, Oranges, Pears, Bath Salts, Bath oils, Bubble bath soap, Scented lotions or fancy soaps

Devotional• light your favorite candle, put on your favorite lotion or perfume, put on your favorite piece of jewelry, put on your favorite article of clothing, enjoy a sweet treat, Sex magic, Glamour spells, Dressing up, acts of self care and acts of self- love, Caring for mental & physical health, Take a bubble bath,Spend time at the sea, Collect sea shells, Read Sappho poetry, Donate to LBGTQ+, Support sex workers, Have safe sex and learn about it, Stand up for yourself and what you believe in, Donate to woman programs and shelters, Do stuff to make ur self feel empowered and beautiful, Honor her kids and ares, watch a romcom, watch a regular romantic movie or show or read your favorite romantic story, Make plans with loved ones and friends or your lover in her honor, Treat yourself to something you enjoy, if you have a pet and they like to snuggle, snuggle or lay with them. Talk to them and tell them how much you love them (If able take them for a walk or a ride), listen to ocean/sea soundscapes, read up on all the many kinds of love, engage in an act of self-care, listen to love songs, listen to a devotional playlist for her, make a Pinterest board or playlist, or journal all of your favorite things and things that you love, learn about the different kinds of love, do things that boost your self esteem, be gentle with yourself, take it easy, etc, watch a ballet, read love poems, Dress up and selfies, Keep menstrual products on you (even if you don't bleed), Advocate for pro-choice, Give/accept compliments, Advocate for SA victims, Go on a date, Take yourself on a date, Do something nice for your partner, get a Manicure/pedicure, Flirt, Affirmations in the mirror, Drink wine, Advocate for proper sex ed (Including queer sex ed), Experiment with your style, Mirror scrying, Listen to sleep affirmations, Love letter to self/her/partner, Take a bath/shower,Go to the ocean/water, Finally give into that one kink (You know the one, 18+), do Masturbation in her honor (only 18+, I heard she’s not comfortable with minors doing it, but that’s between y’all, just ask her beforehand.), Practice safe sex (18+), Educate yourself on the porn industry, Support sex workers (TIP THEM, 18+), Have sex (18+), Get educated on consent/safe sex, Take nude/lewds (18+)

Holiday • on March 18, goddess of fertility day

Season• spring

Status• Olympian, major goddess

Music • Harry styles, Classical music, old love songs (50s & 60s)

Day• Friday

Planet• Venus

Tarot• High priestess, the lovers, the empress, the star

Rituals • honored and invoked for love and fertility and beauty

Festivals • Aphrodisa, kinyrades ( summer festival) adonia ( mourning for Adonis, woman only)

Fact• She was most worshiped during times of politics, Many people offered her Opiates, or did Opiates in her honor. opium-burners were often found at her shrines in ancient times, please do not do opium.

Prayer•

1• sing, sing, oh i sing to aphrodite who is most beautiful! she who stirs the passionof men & god alike! o, to she — i sing! golden goddess with soft lashes, golden goddess withsoft arms, i spin and sing and delight in the bright rose that is you. may i dance with your grace, lifted up as the foam from the sea as you were — may my smile be blessed with delight. golden-haired goddess, bless my tongue to be sweet as honey, bless my fingers to be delicate and swift, bless my steps so they may bound forth in soft beauty. glory to she — praise to she! goddess of ever golden smiles, of fierce beauty, of spilling laughter and delight. o! may i love as you love — may i delight as you delight! goddess, fill me with your beauty — may i shine & rise above the wrathful waters of those around me and delight, delight, delight in the glory that you have given to me!

2•Golden Aphrodite

Lady of beauty and grace, Please give me the power to appreciate my body, Grant me confidence in my masculinity, Help me to feel your love within myself, and to express it outwardly as well, Lady Aphrodite, please hear my prayer, I sing your praises and offer you this incense

3•Aphrodite, guide me towards love. Help me discover it, receive it, embrace it, give it, celebrate it, honor it, teach it, and live it. Let love be the mark I leave, as your devotee, as a human being.

4• Antheia

Hear to me my call for spring to have sprung,Oh, sweet one scented of honey and nectar. Hear my call Aphrodite Antheia,As I harken a need for the sweet bloom. I crave the beauty of the opening flower, The sweet taste of its nectar upon my lips. Ah Aphrodite Antheia, Bring to me the joy of the fresh blooms. Let the petals cascade upon my body, Allow me the joy of the sunshine. Oh sweet one, Oh Aphrodite Antheia. Bestow upon me and mine, The gifts of the flowers fair.

5•daughter of seafoam, goddess of beauty, aphrodite please hear my cries. please listen as i describe all the parts of me that are shattered & torn, please understand as i tell my stories of pain. aphrodite accept me please. aphrodite pick me up & help me mend myself for i am yours, thank you so much & so mote it be

6• Aphrodite rivals the beauty of the sun setting over an ocean's horizon as you stand on the shore, the water tickling your feet as it pulled in and pushed back out repeatedly by the waves.

Scents/Inscene • Rose, wine, fresh roses, Frankincesne, Myrrth, vanilla, cinnamon, cypress, jasmine, cherry blossom, lavender.

Other• images of things she’s associated with, jewelry, perfume, bath salts , scented lotion, seawater, seashells, sand, makeup, feathers, self care essentials.

Links/websites/sources

@khaire-traveler

ephemeral-cryptid.tumblr.com

@mars-and-the-theoi graffitiphilosopher.tumblr.com teawiththegods.tumblr.com

@seleniangnosis

@melitheoidevotion

@seafoamsister

evilios.tumblr.com hearthcreation.tumblr.com orsialos.tumblr.com

@hisfluer

I use resources, I do not own the info, and most deep dives have UPG (that I use in my work.) And I only take some information from sources. I am 14, this is my hobby, I am learning but I spent many hours and days on this, and I am always open to criticism. I have been doing worship for 5 years. Please know you can use the info, I do not sue, but I will take action if this work is used without permission and not put as a resource if used in any work. without permisson and not put as a resource if used in any work, for the public.

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lilithprincessofdarkness · 29 days ago

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Rehash on:

⛧Lilith: the Midnight Venus⛧ by Laith Hazot Venus-(Leala)

The Goddess in Red is Lilith, she's to me the Goddess Philotes.

The Goddess on the left is Eve.

A 'Divine Woman' is more interested in raising children than educating herself she's Eve [Cancer, Virgo]

A 'Profane Woman' seeks to educate herself and possibly indulge in her personal pleasure [Gemini, Scorpio, Taurus]

Nevertheless, both are beautiful and strong Goddesses who work with Hecate in Hades. Eve is Persephone her husband is the Demon, Samyaza Hades himself. She is the Queen of Hades, and Lilith is the Demon Queen, Queen of Hell [Tartarus.]

I reiterate my words on my personal view of Lilith.

I believe she is Philotes, the goddess of affection and sex, and she hates blood and violence. She's a very loving lusty sexual intelligent demoness who hates blood and violence. She does not like seeing humans or animals in pain.

Her partner Samael is also the god Mars, a god of firery passion associated with war he can be violent but only justifiably. Lilith is but the non-violent anima of Samael as Eve is the anima to Adam.

Lilith is Taurus and Samael is Scorpio her opposite. Lilith is the sexual side of dreams she is an essence and spirit of the Earth, she is a serpent of creation and Goddess of Sex. She is Philotes and Samael is Thanatos, later on Venus and Mars. Samael is also Amor and Lilith is Amicitia. Spirits can change each other.

When Philotes became Kypris-Aphrodite, she forgot she was Philotes and Thanatos (Mors, Mars) had her remember. He taught her magick, Thanatos/Mors/Mars/Samael is Satan. When Satan had Lilith-Philotes remember, that's when Aphrodite becomes Lilith in the Bible (Isaiah 34:14), and she is made into a demoness [aka a person with forbidden knowledge knowing they are part god.]

Adam and Eve are the 'normal reception in male female relationship (or the religiously correct way) Adam is more intelligent and Eve is more emotional.

Lilith and Samael's relationship is different because the male is more emotional but is able to protect the more intellectually based female.

Both are incredibly powerful bondings of love. Lucifer is Eve (Persephone's lover in the Spring and warmer seasons, while Samyaza (Hades) is her husband.

Samael Adam Eve and Lilith make a powerful circle aswell with Hecate as the spirit.

I believe that in the idea and Godess Lilith/Philotes.

Original Artist: unknown

I know every Satanist has his/her own values I am nonviolent due to my idea of Lilith.

-Lailith -Venus

#lilith #lilith lilitu lilit #darkgoddess #spirituality #satanism #lilithian #lilithian magick #samael

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faer1etale · 3 months ago

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Something I feel like a lot of people miss out on the Hephaestus-Aphrodite is the comedic potential, like imagine your handmaiden and bestfriend goes on to marry your ex-husband who humilated you?

Imagine the awkwardness whenever Aphrodite comes over to talk and mingle with her bestie

*Aphrodite knocks down the door to Aglaia's and Hephaestus's palace, giving them a surprise visit* Aphrodite: Aglaia!! I've missed you so much!! How have you been? I know it's only been-- *Finger counting* a day but still!

Aglaia, very excited to see her friend for their daily tea party: I've missed you too Lady Kypris! I've set up the table for us, unfortunately your favorite tea is gone... I swear I restocked it this morning. Aglaia looking over to Hephaestus who has a suspiciously shaped tea box item in his throat: Hephaestus: Hephaestus: Gee whiz, I wonder what could've happened to it.

#greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #aglaia #aglaea #charis #aphrodite #hephaestus #And then Aphrodite rambles about how cute their kids are and spoils them with gifts while indirectly insulting Hephaestus #“OMG EUTHENIA!! LOOK AT HOW MUCH YOU'VE GROWN!! AUHAUHG WHAT A CUTIE PIE!! Unlike your b word dad.”#Aglaia facepalming as Hephaestus looks at Aphrodite with a shit eating grin

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davidluongart · 16 days ago

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“In the Lemnian forge of late

Hephaistos making arrows sate,

Whilst with honey their barb’d points

Kypris, Eros with gall anoints:

Armed Ares by chance comes there,

Brandishing a sturdy spear,

And in scorn the little shaft

Offering to take up, he laugh’d:

‘This,’ saith Eros, ‘which thou dost slight,

Is not (if thou try it) light;’

Up Ares takes it, Kypris smil’d;

But he (sighing) to the Child,

‘Take it,’ cries, ‘its weight I feel;’

‘Nay,’ says Love, ‘e’en keep it still.’” -The Anacreontea, Fragment 28

A reinterpretation of a moment of divine indulgence with the love bow and arrow that I did in 2023; but instead of Eros striking, it is the goddess Aphrodite herself who tested her new-made weaponry on her consort; in his palace at the Haemus Mons/Balkan mountains. According to later Roman “Thebaid” by Statius, the palace walls are of “iron structure”, “iron portals bear upon the threshold” with “the roof is carried by columns wrought of iron”. The rays of Helios are weakened when they meet it, as it fears that dwelling, and its murky glare dismays the stars. All around were spoils of every land, and captured peoples adorned the temple’s high front, and fragments of iron-wrought gates and ships of war and empty chariots and faces ground by chariot-wheels, hence the displaying treasures of Pontic Greeks, Colchians, Cimmerians, Scythians, and Thracians. All gleaming with the blinding colors of gold and wonders.

The Greek Ares and Aphrodite, their love, their passion and their pleasure are as timeless as the myths, hence the presence of the historical dildos. I assume that the gods would use olisbos made of something more lasting, perhaps, made of polished wood carving, smooth stone, or ivory. The themes of embrace love, beauty, intimacy, desire, victory, power, and the thrilling complex relationship between love and war. What stories do you think they’re whispering? 😉

#ancient greek #aphrodite #ares #my art #mars #venus #golden fleece #lovecore #sex history

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thewitchinthecloset35 · 5 months ago

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The Birth of Aphrodite

The most common myth of Aphrodite's birth is by Hesiod. It began with Gaia asking Cronus and his siblings to castrate their father Ouranos (or Uranus) to end his power over them as he had imprisoned them in Tartarus, located deep within the earth, causing Gaia great pain. Cronus alone responded and successfully castrated Ouranos, throwing his genitals into the sea. As the genitals floated to the shore of Cyprus, Aphrodite emerged fully grown from the seafoam as the Goddess of Love, Beauty, and War, among other things.

From this, Aphrodite was also referred to as Aphrogeneia (foam-born) and Cypris (or Kypris), as her birthplace and first steps onto land were on Cyprus.

Another version of her birth is in Homer's Iliad which mentions her parents as Zeus and Dione, the Titaness and rain-bringing sea-nymph.

References The Birth of Aphrodite (Venus Anadyomene) THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE Uranus

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percabeth4life · 1 year ago

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I’m sorry if this is a repeat, I have no clue if I sent this in before or not, but what is Aphrodite and Hephaestus’s relationship like, according to the myths and such?

It varies honestly. Like- from a lot of fragments we know he won Aphrodite as a wife by freeing Hera from the trap he made for her (and Aphrodite did agree to wed the one who did so, but supposedly she believed it would be Ares who succeeded).

There's some myths that show them as enjoying time together quite a bit

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 850 ff : "Kypris [Aphrodite], the goddess of desire, had done her sweet work in their hearts [and mated the visiting Argonauts with the widowed women of Lemnos]. She wished to please Hephaistos, the great Artificer, and save his isle of Lemnos from ever lacking men again . . . The whole city [of Lemnos] was alive with dance and banquet. The scent of burnt-offerings filled the air; and of all the immortals, it was Hera's glorious son Hephaistos and Kypris [Aphrodite] herself whom their songs and sacrifices were designed to please."

But in contrast she was definitely with Ares

Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "Demodokos [the Phaiakian bard] struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first the lay together secretly in the dwelling of Hephaistos. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos. But Helios (the sun-god) had seen them in their dalliance and hastened away to tell Hephaistos; to him the news was bitter as gall, and he made his way towards his smithy, brooding revenge.

And they were shamed for it as "ill deeds never prosper"

I do find it interesting, as a side note, that Poseidon actually advocated strongly to Hephaistos to free Ares, and even offered to pay Ares' debt to Heaphaistos.

Continuing, though there are stories a plenty of their time, an awful lot of what we have actually comes from the Roman era. While these stories are undoubtedly at least partially based in older tellings, we seem to be missing a fair few...

However, in the Odyssey, they actually get divorced.

Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : Come, Father Zeus; come, all you blessed immortals with him; see what has happened here . . . You will see the pair of lovers now as they lie embracing in my bed; the sight of them makes me sick at heart. Yet I doubt their desire to rest there longer, fond as they are. They will soon unwish their posture there; but my cunning chains shall hold them both fast till her father Zeus has given me back all the betrothal gifts I bestowed on him for his wanton daughter; beauty she has, but no sense of shame.’"

This line is basically: give me back the betrothal gifts (so we're no longer together).

Notably, in the Iliad Hephaistos is married to Aglaia, rather than Aphrodite.

Pseudo-Apollodorus and Nonnus, Dionysiaca also mention that they divorced. They don't use the words divorce, but they are clearly separated and no longer considered together.

So, they had at least a period of time together, but as Aphrodite loved Ares (whom she'd wanted to marry) they had an affair which ended the marriage with Hephaistos.

Some mythos also mentions that he cursed Harmonia, daughter born of the Aphrodite and Ares affair, but I need to do more research on the origins of this mythos as the sources I've found are both Roman era.

Hope this answers your question!

#anon asks #life answers #hellenic chat #aphrodite deity #hephaestus deity

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the-goddess-aphrod1te · 3 months ago

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"Kypris, won't you ever rid my sister of that curse? She slept with your little toy one time, and thousands of years later, her cabin is completely full with children because she cannot stop lusting over handsome men!"

@selene-titaness-of-the-moon

“Who?” Aphrodite wrinkled her face, waving her hand dismissively, shrugging her shoulders, “Oh. Eos? No can do, she can go destroy herself or something, I don’t lose sleep over the likes of her.”

#pjo rp #greek myth rp #greek mythology rp #percy jackson roleplay #percy jackson rp #pjo roleplay #pjo rpg #pjo rp blog #pandemos. the lover. ❦

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ircnwrought · 2 months ago

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harmonia's timeline (bc lbr, the myths are a mess; read more since this is long af with cites for me to look back on later)

*quick side note that this is just how i portray/write harmonia and i'm not truly married to the particular order of how everything happens. there are so many retellings out there and everyone has their own version of what happened, so differences between portrayals is definitely expected

-??? yrs - before the start of harmonia's myth: the creation of the world, the overthrow of the titans, and the creation of man

-??? yrs - the start of the age of gods and mortals: the time when gods and mortals mingled freely on earth. the world is still very new when harmonia is born (she and cadmus are part of the fifth generation of beings folllowing the creation of the world)

side note of ancestry given how new the world is: gaia->uranus->cronus->poseidon->agenor->cadmus; gaia->uranus->cronus->zeus->ares/aphrodite->harmonia (both being five generations removed from gaia)

0 yrs - cadmus is born to agenor and telephassa in phoenicia; harmonia is born to ares and aphrodite in thrace (harmonia is the firstborn of this union)

let your daughter Harmonia go along with her yearsmate [same age] Kadmos as his bride (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 373 - 4. 292)

less than 1 day - harmonia is sent to foster with electra of samothrace; she is born on the same day as electra's eldest son with corythus, emathion (electra is already the mother of dardanos and iasion by zeus)

The mother [Aprodite] did not nurse it--she was ashamed of the baby which told its own tale of the furtive bed; but away from the bosom of the sky she carried the suckling, lying in her arm, to the fostering house of Elektra [the Queen of Samothrake], when the childbed Horai (Horae, Seasons) had just delivered her baby still wet, when her breasts were tight and swollen with the gushing white sap. Elektra received the bastard daughter with equal rights, and joined the newborn girl on one breast with her newborn Emathion, held with equal love and care her two different nurslings in her arm. So Elektra then with loving breast foster-mothered her brace of newborn babes, the boy and the girl, and cherished them with equal care. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 373 - 4. 292)

18 yrs - cadmus is sent to rescue his sister europa from zeus and slays ares's dragon in the process of founding thebes; cadmus begins sevens yrs of indetured service to ares; corythus dies, leaving emathion king of samothrace as the only child of his union with electra

Kadmos (Cadmus) approaches the palace of King Emathion of Samothrake [when courting Harmonia] (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 124 - 4. 212)

25 yrs - cadmus finishes his indentured servitude and is gifted harmonia's hand in marriage as reward; harmonia protests the marriage and aphrodite tricks her daughter into accepting the suit; the wedding is the first wedding the gods and mortals celebrate together

When the maiden heard of this marriage of much wandering and this unstable husband, this homeless man under their roof, she declared she would have no stranger, and refused all that Kadmos' patron proposed on Zeus his father's behalf ... But now tricky-minded Aphrodite girt her body in the heart-bewitching cestus-belt, and clothing herself in the love-robe of Peitho (Persuasion) she entered Harmonia's fragrant chamber ... As though in love with Kadmos and suffering from some hidden sickness, with but little brightness in her pale face, she chased away the maids; and when Harmonia was alone she sat by her side and said as in shame with deceitful tongue ... [Harmonia] changed her mind, and with divided purpose wished both to have the stranger and to live in her own land ... When Mene [Selene the Moon] saw the girl following a stranger along the shore above the sea, and boiling under fiery constraint, she reproached Kypris [Aphrodite] in mocking words : ‘So you make war even upon your children, Kypris! Not even the fruit of your womb is spared by the goad of love! Don't you pity the girl you bore, hardheart? What other girl can you pity then, when you drag your own child into passion?" (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 373 - 4. 292)

This wedding of Kadmos and Harmonia was the first, we are told, for which the gods provided the marriage-feast (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 48. 2)

cadmus gifts harmonia the cursed necklace at their wedding; hephaestus fashioned the necklace to punish aphrodite for her affair with ares and in turn gave the necklace to cadmus; the necklace gifts its wearer youth and beauty (and those around her, hence cadmus being alive for so long); harmonia's foster brother iasion is struck dead at the wedding by zeus for sleeping with demeter and is the first unrecognized victim of the curse, dardanus goes into exile in grief; harmonia wears the necklace nearly everyday after, including when her children are conceived thereby transferring the curse into the blood of the theban royal family; the couple returns to thebes immediately after the wedding

The dread necklace of Harmonia . . . The Lemnian [Hephaistos], so they of old believed, long time distressed at Mars' [Ares'] deceit and seeing that no punishment gave hindrance to the disclosed armour [with his wife Aphrodite], and the avenging chains removed not the offence, wrought this for Harmonia [the child born of the armour] on her bridal day to be the glory of her dower . . . The work first proved its worth, when Harmonia's complaints turned to dreadful hissing, and she bore company to grovelling Cadmus, and with long trailing breast drew furrows in the Illyrian fields. (Statius, Thebaid 2. 265 ff)

Kadmos (Cadmus) gave Harmonia a robe and the necklace [on her wedding day] fashioned by Hephaistos (Hephaestus) (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 25)

Iasion and Dardanos, two brothers [sons of Elektra (Electra)], used to live in Samothrake (Samothrace). But when Iasion was struck by a thunderbolt because of his sin against Demeter, Dardanos sailed away from Samothrake, went and took up his abode at the foot of Mount Ida, calling the city Dardania. (Strabo, Geography 7 Fragment 49 )

the rest of the gods spoke them fair and gave the pair their aid in the celebration of the wedding. After this Kadmos, they say, in accordance with the oracle he had received, founded Thebes in Boiotia (Boeotia). (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 48. 2)

26 yrs - birth of autonoe (side note: that harmonia has very human births in which she carries her children for nine months and births them herself)

Soon Harmonia yoked by the cestus-girdle that guides wedded desire, carried in her womb the seed of many children whom she brought forth soon one by one: turn by turn she was delivered of her teeming burden by the birth of daughters, after four times nine circuits had been fulfilled. First Autonoe leapt from her mother's fruitful womb, her first birthpangs after nine months' course with child. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88 ff)

27 yrs - birth of ino

Then came Ino to be her sister, the beautiful consort of Athamas who bore him two children. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88 ff)

29 yrs - birth of agave

Third appeared Agaue (Agave), who afterwards married with the giant stock and bore a son like to her fangform husband [Ekhion (Echion)]. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88 ff)

31 yrs - birth of semele; despite a difficult labor, semele's birth was under auspicious stars and she is the daughter that looks the most like aphrodite/the graces, beginning a cycle of resentment amongst the other sisters that lasts a lifetime

Then Semele fourth of the daughters grew up, the image of the Kharites (Charites, Graces) in her lovestriking looks, preserved for Zeus; although youngest of the sisters, she alone was given by nature the prerogative of unconquerable beauty. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88 ff)

shortly after semele's birth, zeus transforms electra and the rest of the pleiades into stars after they are pursued by orion; harmonia is devastated by the loss of her foster mother but takes comfort in her new daughter

when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep (Works and Days 618–623)

44 yrs - semele is dedicated to the temple of zeus on her 13th birthday; despite the tradition of older children being settled before the younger, cadmus waited until semele's dedication to betroth autonoe, agave, and ino, believing the dedication would bring good luck to the unions

Kadmos (Cadmus) [king of Thebes] now chose husbands for his daughters, and gave them over in four successive bridals, settling their weddings one by one. [I choose to interpret that Semele's "wedding" is as a priestess to Zeus in the temple] (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.212)

marriages of autonoe to aristaeus and agave to echion; ino refuses to marry, claiming she has given her heart to the already wedded atahamas, scandalizing her parents

After the bridals of Nephele [Athamas's wife] of the earlier marriages, maiden Ino went with revels to the bridal chamber of Athamas. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 556 ff)

45 yrs - athamas divorces nephele to marry ino, despite already having two children (phrixus and helle), the start of a theban golden age as all the daughters begin to have children

Athamas, lord of Boiotia (Boeotia), sired by Nephele a son Phrixos and a daughter Helle. Then he took a second wife, Ino, by whom he had Learkhos (Learchus) and Melikertes (Melicertes). (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 80)

agave gives birth to pentheus, semele reaches her majority at 15 yrs old and cadmus, still without a son, bucks tradition and names her his official heir over his other daughters

46 yrs - autonoe gives birth to actaeon

47 yrs - agave gives birth to epirus

48 yrs - zeus and semele have an affair; semele conceives dionysus while wearing harmonia's cused necklace; while six months pregnant, semele dies after seeing zeus in his true form; zeus sews dio into his thigh and gives birth three months later; harmonia's remaining daughters, unable to come to terms that their own bitterness caused a large part of semele's doubt in zeus, widely circulate rumors that semele's lover was mortal

Zeus fell in love with Semele and slept with her, promising her anything she wanted, and keeping it all from Hera. But Semele was deceived by Hera into asking her to come to her as he came to Hera during their courtship. So Zeus, unable to refuse her, arrived in her bridal chamber in a chariot with lightning flashes and thunder, and sent a thunderbolt at her. Semele died of fright, and Zeus grabbed from the fire her sixth-month aborted baby, which he sewed into his thigh. After Semele's death the remaining daughters of Kadmos (Cadmus) circulated the story that she had slept with a mortal, thereafter accusing Zeus, and because of this had been killed by a thunderbolt. (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 26-27)

Next, scarce had shameless Semele put the hurtful gift about her neck, when lying Juno [Hera] crossed her threshold (Statius, Thebaid 2. 265 ff)

ino gives birth to twins, learchus and melicertes

ino agrees to raise dionysus as her own given how close in age he is to her own children, angering hera; hera strikes athamus with madness and he kills his son learchus; ino throws herself off a cliff with their remaining son melicertes

And, in this madness hunting her [Ino], tracked down his [Athamas's] wife and snatched Learchus from her arms, his little laughing son with hands outstretched, and like a slinger whirled him round and round and wildly smashed the baby's head against a granite block; and then his mother, crazed by grief or by the sprinkled poison's power, screamed madly and with streaming hair rushed out with tiny Melicerta in her arms (Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 416 ff)

60 yrs - harmonia gives birth to a miracle son, polydorus, 29 yrs after the birth of her last daughter, cadmus is convinced to make his newborn son his heir apparent

Harmonia added a little son to the brood of sisters, and made Kadmos happy--Polydoros (Polydorus), the morning star of the Aionian [Theban] nation, younger than rosycheek Semele. (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 88 ff )

66 yrs - dionysus, now an 18 yr old demigod, comes to thebes and prophesizes the downfall of his family; given cadmus's advanced age (though he doesn't look like it due to the slowed aging effects of the necklace) and the prophecy, cadmus and harmonia adbicate the throne; polydorus being underage is usurped by his 21 yr old cousin pentheus; cadmus and harmonia are exiled from thebes

"[The god Dionysos addresses old King Kadmos (Cadmus) of Thebes :] ‘Now Kadmos, hear what suffering Fate appoints for you. You shall transmute your nature, and become a serpent. Your wife Harmonia, whom her father Ares gave to you, a mortal, likewise shall assume the nature of beasts, and live a snake. The oracle of Zeus foretells that you, at the head of a barbaric horde, shall with your wife drive forth a pair of heifers yoked, and with your countless army destroy many cities; but when they plunder Loxias' oracle, they shall find a miserable homecoming. However, Ares shall at last deliver both you and Harmonia, and grant you immortal life among the blessed gods.’" (Euripides, Bacchae 1346 ff)

67 yrs - cadmus and harmonia join the fight to overthrow the illyrian kingdom; illyrius, harmonia's last child, is born

"Kadmos (Cadmus) and Harmonia left Thebes and went to the Enkhelean (Enchelean) people. They were being harassed by the Illyrians, and learned from the god through an oracle that they would overpower the Illyrians if they had Kadmos and Harmonia as their leaders. Trusting this, they made these two their leaders in the campaign, and did indeed defeat the Illyrians. Kadmos ruled the Illyrians, and fathered a son named Illyrios (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 39)

68 yrs - dionysus returns to thebes and is rejected by pentheus and the sisters; in retliation, dionysus strikes autonoe and agave with madness; they tear pentheus apart with their bare hands and are exiled from thebes as kinslayers; polydorus ascends the throne at age 18; autonoe's son actaeon is eaten by his hounds

"Mother," he said, "I am your child, Pentheus, son of Echion. Mother, pity me! Don't kill me Mother. I made mistakes, but I am still your child." But she was foaming at the mouth, her eyes rolled all around; her mind was mindless now. Held by the god, she paid the man no heed. (Euripides, Bacchae, 1119-1131)

69 yrs - polydorus marries nycteis; after 2 long years of war, agave marries the king of the illyrians, lycotherses, and murders him to hand the kingdom to her parents

70 yrs - agave dies in exile as a kin and spouse slayer; polydorus has his son labdacus

71 yrs - autonoe dies in grief from the loss of her son actaeon; polydorus dies of illness; polydorus's son labdacus becomes king, but as he is underage, nycteus and lycus rule as regents

84 yrs - cadmus, in his grief, asks the gods to turn him into a snake and they comply; harmonia, unable to bear being parted from her husband, begged for the same fate, which ares gave her; illyrius becomes king of illyria

"Cadmus . . . overcome by sorrow and his train of troubles and so many warning signs, he left the city, Thebae (Thebes), that he had founded, as if that city's fortune, not his own, were crushing him, and with his pilgrim wife [Harmonia], after long wanderings reached Illyria. And now, worn by their woes and weight of years, the two were talking of their early times, the fortune of their house and their said toils, and Cadmus said ... 'I pray that I may be a Snake and stretch along the ground' ... Beating her naked breast, his wife cried out ‘Stay, Cadmus, stay! Throw off that monstrous shape! Cadmus, what now? Your feet, your shoulders, hands where are they? And your colour and your shape, and, while I'm speaking, everything? Ye Gods, why don't you turn me too into a snake?’ (Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 565 ff)

#❛ in the land of gods and monsters ❜ ▬ ( harmonia meta. )#❛ all legends have a beginning ❜ ▬ ( harmonia headcanon. )#(( this is such a long post jfc but i learned a lot today including that i need to update her bio bc illyrius didn't die before her whoops

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