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is on page 64 of 208
“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
— Nov 07, 2025 05:13AM
“Where Helen of Troy(sparta) went, Aphrodite followed.”
()-my own notes
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Grace
is on page 135 of 208
“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.”
— Nov 21, 2025 05:16PM
Grace
is on page 132 of 208
“Venus was (now) a thinly veiled excuse for disturbing and degenerate sexism and racism.”
()- my own notes
— Nov 21, 2025 05:15PM
()- my own notes
Grace
is on page 122 of 208
“Venus was becoming not an immortal Olympian, but a flesh-and-blood, Western European matriarch.”
— Nov 21, 2025 05:13PM
Grace
is on page 111 of 208
“Even in astrology, ‘Venus dominates Mars, never vice versa.’”
— Nov 21, 2025 05:12PM
Grace
is on page 108 of 208
“Because Aphrodite-Venus was about to become a metaphor, no longer for ambition and for prurient passion, but for purist philosophy.”
— Nov 21, 2025 05:11PM
Grace
is on page 103 of 208
“The equation between Aphrodite as a nurturer or protector of children, a Kourotrophos, and the Virgin Mary is obvious.”
— Nov 13, 2025 05:53AM
Grace
is on page 102 of 208
“So, counter intuitively, in the monotheistic climate of Christendom, Aphrodite survived a faith revolution—in no less a guise then the Virgin Mary herself.”
— Nov 13, 2025 05:11AM
Grace
is on page 92 of 208
“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.”
— Nov 13, 2025 05:08AM
Grace
is on page 85 of 208
“But the tug of love over the goddess between her new adopters, the West, and her motherland, the East, would continue-“
— Nov 13, 2025 05:07AM
