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Aphrodite- Goddess of sexual love and beauty

Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love


and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans.
The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod
relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born
from the white foam produced by the severed
genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus
threw them into the sea.

Story: Hathor- Egyptian goddess of sexuality,


drunkenness and dance
- As a goddess who transcended life and death,
Hathor was widely worshipped and came to be
idenified with a deity known as The Distant
Goddess. This is a goddess who abandons her father
Ra and assumes the form of a wild feline to elude any
attempts to find her or catch her.

Demeter- Goddess of harvest


Demeter was the Ancient Greek goddess of the
harvest. She was a very important goddess to
Ancient Greek people, who farmed a lot of their
food. Demeter had a kind and beautiful daughter,
called Persephone, who she loved very much.

Story: Cybele- Phrygian mother of the gods

- KYBELE (Cybele) was the ancient


Phrygian Mother of the Gods, a primal
nature goddess worshipped with
orgiastic rites in the mountains of central
and western Anatolia. The Greeks
identified her with their own mother of
the gods--the Titaness Rhea.
Apollo- God of everything

Apollo was the god of practically


everything – including but not limited to music,
poetry, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague,
healing, sun and light (although the god is
always associated with the sun, the original sun
god was the titan Helios, but everyone forgot
about him).

Story: Phoebus- God of sun, light and music

- byname Phoebus, in Greco-Roman


mythology, a deity of manifold
function and meaning, one of the most
widely revered and influential of all the
ancient Greek and Roman gods.
HATHOR- GODdess of sexuality, drunkenness,
and dance
Kybele (Cybele)- Phrygian mother of the gods
Phoebus- god of sun, light and music

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