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“Venus is no longer creating civilization, not even just being contained by it; civilization is reveling in her castration—the armless Venus feeds a ruin lust.”

“Venus was (now) a thinly veiled excuse for disturbing and degenerate sexism and racism.”
()- my own notes

“Venus was becoming not an immortal Olympian, but a flesh-and-blood, Western European matriarch.”

“Even in astrology, ‘Venus dominates Mars, never vice versa.’”

“Because Aphrodite-Venus was about to become a metaphor, no longer for ambition and for prurient passion, but for purist philosophy.”

“The equation between Aphrodite as a nurturer or protector of children, a Kourotrophos, and the Virgin Mary is obvious.”

“So, counter intuitively, in the monotheistic climate of Christendom, Aphrodite survived a faith revolution—in no less a guise then the Virgin Mary herself.”

“Aphrodite-Venus was coming to represent some thing that should, by rights, be kept under wraps—the hedonistic possibilities of Tryphé, the luxurious good life.”

“But the tug of love over the goddess between her new adopters, the West, and her motherland, the East, would continue-“

“Venus, with her violent origins and her choice of the war god Ares-Mars as a lover, was an appropriate deity for Rome to take up with.”

“Aphrodite was far more then just a pretty face; she was a sounding board for human behaviour and for ethical and cultural dilemmas.”

“It is pleasure and pain, sex and death all mixed up.”

“The Greeks had perpetuated a troubling trope:stories abounded about Aphrodite’s connection to sexual abuse.”

“A trend has been fueled. Aphrodite-Venus would be very hard to keep her clothes on and to command serious respect.”

“The goddess we imagine to be typically naked was, in fact, through much of antiquity, typically clothed.
But then she started to shed her raiment.
From fourth century BC onward, Aphrodite is systematically stripped.”

“As geopolitics shifted, the female role in society—both mortal and divine—was increasingly marginalized.”
“Woman, rather then being mankind’s salvation, started to become creatures resented for merely sitting at home and bearing broods, sowing replacement spear-fodder.”

“So, little fox, remember this—your story remains safe/When the light is dim and the path is long, it will be there for you to guide you home. I guarantee it: because you are loved.”

“He also knew they couldn’t outrun the fire, so he told the crew that they would have to turn and walk directly into the flames”
“I wasn’t there for him when he needed me. I wasn’t there to walk him through the flames. Instead, he tried to outrun it, except no one can outrun depression.”

“You were not gentle or sensitive or a romantic at heart. You were not the one thing I was most proud of in this world and you were not the part of me that I loved best. I was not your mother. I can’t be. Because if I was . . . I wouldn’t be able to go on from here.”

“Aphrodite was sometimes equated with, and confused with, the goddess of fate and retribution, Nemesis.”
“Where Helen of Troy(sparta) went, Aphrodite followed.”
()-my own notes

“Aphrodite came to be known as Mechanitis, the deviser, a creature who meddled in and directed human affairs.”

“But the goddess’s swat over sec meant she was considered by many to have not just heavenly but also demonic powers.”

“As ever with the goddess, sex and death are close consorts.”

“Prostitutes were truly Aphrodite’s children, since she was a patron of both copulation and of conflict.”

“Unsurprisingly, given her connection to both sea and sec, Aphrodite was the goddess of not just ports and port towns, but also prostitutes.”

“Lovers thanked her—they also cursed her”

“Aphrodite is, far more potently the incarnation of MIXIS, a pervasive catalyst that was believed to mix things up, that encouraged (sometimes forced) intimacy, connection, collaboration.”

“The Demotic Greek word Ketis can mean both the scallop-like sea creature and a woman’s labia and sex.”

“She was as real as the sky, as real as the sea. Without her, all was lost. Her presence gave hope.”