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Featured member of the month 10/15: Aphrodite (Goddess of Love) KOED
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Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of
love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She is mother of King Randy Wells and
grandmother to Queen Desdemona Lust.
http://www.fandomain.org/view_profile.php?member_id=983
Aphrodite is part of the KOED kingdom.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born
when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she
arose from the sea foam (aphros). According to Homer's Iliad, she is the
daughter of Zeus and Dione. Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their
rivalry over her would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus
married her to Hephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity, was not
seen as a threat. Aphrodite had many lovers—both gods, such as Ares, and men,
such as Anchises. She played a role in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later
was both Adonis's lover and his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings were said
to be children of Aphrodite.
Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea (Lady of
Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus) after the two cult sites, Cythera and
Cyprus, which claimed to be her place of birth. Myrtle, doves, sparrows,
horses, and swans were said to be sacred to her. The ancient Greeks identified
her with the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor. Aphrodite had many other names,
such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, each used by a different local cult of
the goddess in Greece. The Greeks recognized all of these names as referring to
the single goddess Aphrodite, despite the slight differences in what these
local cults believed the goddess demanded of them. The Attic philosophers of
the 4th century, however, drew a distinction between a celestial Aphrodite
(Aprodite Urania) of transcendent principles, and a separate,
"common" Aphrodite who was the goddess of the people (Aphrodite
Pandemos).
One of her children with Hephaestos is Randy
Wells, who later married Desdemona Lust. Who was Aphrodite’s granddaughter, out
of one of her adventures.
Aphrodite has many daughters and sons. Some are
part of KOED, some are just known from legend while others are yet to be
discovered. So Aphrodite holds true to being the goddess of procreation and
love. She is one of the foundations that made KOED possible by giving life to
the rulers of the kingdom. And her heritage as goddess of love, pleasure,
beauty and procreation has left its mark on all her heirs, many generations
into the Lust bloodline.
But being the goddess of love is not being the
goddess of marriage. So Aphrodite was often faced with the problems that hail
from an arranged marriage. Finally she asked her father Zeus to pay the bride
price back. So Aphrodite is no longer married to Hephaestos. And despite their
trouble, she has loved him. She allowed herself time to mourn the failure of
the marriage and that Hephaestos vanished into the void.
Aphrodite says about herself: "I'm selfish, impatient and a little
insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But
if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at
my best."
Parents: Zeus, Dione
Husband: none at the moment
Former Husband: Hephaestos
Children: Randy Wells, Ambrosia Deus, Lorelei
Jade, and many more
Appearance: Extraordinary beauty, golden hair.
She is said to be the perfect beauty and there is no flaw on her body.
Skills/Trademarks: control over love, desire
and pleasure, can induce these emotions upon others, divine, immortality.
aphrodite from Desdemona Lust on Vimeo. aphrodite from Desdemona Lust on Vimeo.
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