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APHRODITE Aphrodite is the goddess of
love, desire and beauty. In addition to her
natural gifts she has a magical girdle that
compels anyone she wishes to desire her. There
are two Accounts of her birth.
One says she is the daughter of Zeus and
Dione
The other goes back to when Cronus castrated
Uranus and tossed his severed genitles into the
sea. Aphrodite then arose from the sea foam on a
giant scallop and walked to shore in Cyprus.
She is the wife of Hephaestus. The myrtle is her
tree. The dove, the swann, and the sparrow her
birds.
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