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Venus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /; Classical Latin: [ˈu̯ɛnʊs̠] Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvɛ(ː)nus]) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Although Venus had an archaic origin in Rome and Latium, the cult of Venus Obsequens was the earliest established in the Greek manner to Venus equated with Aphrodite as a goddess of sexuality. [13] The adjective obsequens , often translated as "deferential" (hence English "obsequious"), as a divine epithet expresses favor or active support ...
Here the eight pointed star is the Star of Ishtar, the Babylonian Venus goddess, alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of their father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II, dating to the twelfth century BC. Several hymns praise Inanna in her role as the goddess of the planet Venus.
The discontinuous movements of Venus relate to both Inanna's mythology as well as her dual nature. [ 7 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Inanna's actions in several of her myths, including Inanna and Shukaletuda and Inanna's Descent into the Underworld appear to parallel the motion of the planet Venus as it progresses through its synodic cycle.
A mural of Venus Anadyomene, with the goddess wringing her hair, from the Casa del Principe di Napoli in Pompeii. According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite was born as an adult woman from the sea off Paphos in Cyprus, which also perpetually renewed her virginity. A motif of the goddess wringing out her hair is often repeated.
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. [1] Macrobius [ 2 ] also mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus , representing the goddess with a beard, in female attire, but resembling in her whole figure that of a man (see also Aphroditus ). [ 3 ]
Mazarin Venus, a statuary type popular in the 2nd century AD that evokes the ritual of bathing. Venus Verticordia ("Changer of Hearts" [1] or "Heart-Turner" [2]) was an aspect of the Roman goddess Venus conceived as having the power to convert either virgins or sexually active women from dissolute desire (libido) [3] to sexual virtue (). [4]
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