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  2. Venus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Over time, venus came to refer to any artistic depiction in post-classical art of a nude woman, even when there was no indication that the subject was the goddess. The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli c. 1485 –1486. Venus, Mars, and Vulcan, by Tintoretto. The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) Sleeping Venus (c. 1501) Venus of Urbino (1538)

  3. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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    Venus: Goddess of love, pleasure, passion, procreation, fertility, beauty and desire. The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid or Titaness Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus' blood dripped into the sea after being castrated by his youngest son, Cronus, who then threw his father's genitals into the sea. Married to Hephaestus ...

  4. Shukra - Wikipedia

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    Shukra represents women, beauty, wealth, luxury, and sex. According to classical astrological texts, a powerfully placed Shukra, aspected by benefic planets such as Jupiter, and in favourable signs and houses in the birth chart, ensures material well-being. Its beej mantra is "Om Draam Dreem Draum Sah Shukraya Namaha". It is associated with ...

  5. The Birth of Venus - Wikipedia

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    The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).

  6. Planets in astrology - Wikipedia

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    Venus, wearing the sign of Libra on her midsection, and Taurus at her feet, at Cardiff Castle, Wales. Venus is the ruling planet of Libra ♎️ and Taurus ♉️ and is exalted in Pisces ♓️. In classical Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love and beauty, famous for the passions she could stir among the gods. Her cults may represent ...

  7. Astrological symbols - Wikipedia

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    Based on the symbols for Pluto, Mars, and Venus; proposed by Henry Seltzer and used in Time Passages [clarification needed] [38] Haumea 🝻 U+1F77B Conflation of Hawaiian petroglyphs for woman and birth, as Haumea was the goddess of both [35] Makemake 🝼 U+1F77C Engraved face of the Rapa Nui god Makemake, also resembling an M [35] Gonggong ...

  8. Venus - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Category:Venus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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