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Small Aphrodite altar / pocket shrine inspiration 🐚🤍🪞💒

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Look, the gods have seen weirder shit. they love you too.

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It's ok if you take your time opening up to your Gods. Just remember that you can count on Them. They're here to help. ❤️

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Know thyself - not as a discipline separate from practice, but as learning an inevitable instrument and the one certain constant of your own craft.

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Stephan Sinding, Adoration, 1903

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Satan was a baby boomer by brutalismus 3000

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If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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Marble statue of Aphrodite, 2nd century B.C.

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hmmm i lay in bed all day and I'm very soft and cuddly..... girl I think I might be a plushie

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Nude, 1912, Alexej von Jawlensky

https://www.wikiart.org/en/alexej-von-jawlensky/nude-1912

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Woman with a Parrot, 1866, Gustave Courbet

Medium: oil,canvas

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by dovneon

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I’m really in need of something to represent Aphrodite! Do you have any pictures/paintings of Aphrodite that you like the most?

Ooo I have a lot!

Enjoy!! 😊

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And like sweet Aphrodite intended

You became an extension of my religion

For I worship your body and your mind

And everything you are

Because She gave me this heart and mind

So I may love you with all my being

And there is no sweeter devotion

Than loving someone like they were destined for you

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Something that baffles me is when people compare Aphrodite to “bloody” goddesses (Anat, Inanna, Sekhmet, etc.) as a way to say Aphrodite is just a demure love goddess teehee, look how badass my warrior goddess is instead.

Aphrodite Ourania rose out of blood and the ocean and walked to land fully-formed. This Aphrodite is a Titaness, older even than the generation of Zeus. She has no mother. She is never an infant. She is the ultimate generative power, the fish, born from a male (upending societal norms) and wielding the power of creation and invention.

Aphrodite Areia is a war goddess - this is the title made famous by Athena and Ares, but Aphrodite does not get this title from her lover. She is a goddess of soldiers and fights on the battlefield of Troy. She is also Aphrodite Hoplismena, the armed, depicted in full armor with a shield and sword. This is the Aphrodite of Sparta.

Aphrodite Nikephoros is not only Aphrodite armored and armed, but Aphrodite commanding the power of Nike - Nike, the goddess usually found at Zeus’s side, ensuring victory. This Aphrodite is not one to be crossed on the battlefield, because you will not win.

Or maybe we just aren’t on the same page as the ancients when it comes to a “love goddess.” Aphrodite Pandemos is a goddess of frenzy, a goddess who incites war and madness, a goddess to whom it was said even the Fates would bend their will. To some Hellenes, Aphrodite was the goddess of creation because she is the spark of all love and desire - and to others, she was the creator of all.

There’s nothing wrong in calling Aphrodite a goddess of love - she is, truly. But this doesn’t make her timid. She is not clawless. She is a complex goddess, inextricably linked to the awesome war goddesses of the Ancient Near East. Do not dilute her just because you’re not familiar with her or with the domain of love goddesses. I know this may seem trivial to some people, but don’t reduce one goddess to make another look more powerful - they don’t need it.

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