[150][152] In the version of the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Hippomenes forgets to repay Aphrodite for her aid,[153][150] so she causes the couple to become inflamed with lust while they are staying at the temple of Cybele. [9][10] More recently, Michael Janda, also accepting Hesiod's etymology, has argued in favor of the latter of these interpretations and claims the story of a birth from the foam as an Indo-European mytheme. [246] Meanwhile, Isidore denigrated Aphrodite/Venus's son Eros/Cupid as a "demon of fornication" (daemon fornicationis). [233] The statue showed a nude Aphrodite modestly covering her pubic region while resting against a water pot with her robe draped over it for support. They started a secret relationship but the girl was already betrothed to another man and he went on to inform her father Xanthius, without telling him the name of the seducer. [181][182] In one of the versions of the legend, Pasiphae did not make offerings to the goddess Venus [Aphrodite]. 36 likes. Aphrodite is associated with the Roman goddess Venus because they shared many of the same characteristics. [119] Later, the Romans, who saw Venus as a mother goddess, seized on this idea of Eros as Aphrodite's son and popularized it,[119] making it the predominant portrayal in works on mythology until the present day. [222] In North Africa in the late fifth century AD, Fulgentius of Ruspe encountered mosaics of Aphrodite[222] and reinterpreted her as a symbol of the sin of Lust,[222] arguing that she was shown naked because "the sin of lust is never cloaked"[222] and that she was often shown "swimming" because "all lust suffers shipwreck of its affairs. [156][157] He fell madly and passionately in love with the ivory cult statue he was carving of Aphrodite and longed to marry it. [11][12] Another key similarity between Aphrodite and the Indo-European dawn goddess is her close kinship to the Greek sky deity,[44] since both of the main claimants to her paternity (Zeus and Uranus) are sky deities. Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, love, and sexuality. [74] Modern scholars now dismiss the notion of ritual prostitution in Greece as a "historiographic myth" with no factual basis. In ancient Greek mythology Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. [84], Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near her chief center of worship, Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, which is why she is sometimes called "Cyprian", especially in the poetic works of Sappho. She saw him when he was born and determined then that he should be hers. [75], During the Hellenistic period, the Greeks identified Aphrodite with the ancient Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Isis. [270] Stories revolving around sculptures of Aphrodite were common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [150][151] Atalanta was an exceedingly swift runner and she beheaded all of the men who lost to her. "Cypris" redirects here. Aphrodite had many affairs with men, both human and divine, resulting in many children, including Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios, and … Aphrodite was the goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. [267] In 1605, Richard Barnfield lauded it,[268] declaring that the poem had placed Shakespeare's name "in fames immortall Booke". [287][288] Wiccans regard Aphrodite as the ruler of human emotions, erotic spirituality, creativity, and art. 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 Hep… The 'bikini', for which the statuette is famous, is obtained by the masterly use of the technique of gilding, also employed on her groin, in the pendant necklace and in the armilla on Aphrodite's right wrist, as well as on Priapus' phallus. I will put the date of my seventy-five years on it and afterwards I will never again pick up my brush. [100] Likewise, in Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is unmarried and the wife of Hephaestus is Aglaea, the youngest of the three Charites. [184] Lysippe, mother of Tanais by Berossos. a p. 62; Pompeii 2000, n. 1, p. 62. [46][47][48] Aphroditus was depicted with the figure and dress of a woman,[46][47] but had a beard,[46][47] and was shown lifting his dress to reveal an erect phallus. He asserts that Aphrodite Ourania is the celestial Aphrodite, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and the older of the two goddesses. A representation of Ourania with her foot resting on a tortoise came to be seen as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love; it was the subject of a chryselephantine sculpture by Phidias for Elis, known only from a parenthetical comment by the geographer Pausanias. "Haaaaaaaah —!" 1. [263] The art critic J. The king of gods dispatched an eagle to steal one of Aphrodite's sandals. [268] Despite this, the poem has received mixed reception from modern critics;[267] Samuel Taylor Coleridge defended it,[267] but Samuel Butler complained that it bored him[267] and C. S. Lewis described an attempted reading of it as "suffocating". [264] In 1879, William Adolphe Bouguereau exhibited at the Paris Salon his own Birth of Venus,[261] which imitated the classical tradition of contrapposto and was met with widespread critical acclaim, rivalling the popularity of Cabanel's version from nearly two decades prior. [48], A male version of Aphrodite known as Aphroditus was worshipped in the city of Amathus on Cyprus. [188] In the extant ancient depictions of the Judgement of Paris, Aphrodite is only occasionally represented nude, and Athena and Hera are always fully clothed. 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). Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. [291][better source needed]. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. [40], Some early comparative mythologists opposed to the idea of a Near Eastern origin argued that Aphrodite originated as an aspect of the Greek dawn goddess Eos[41][42] and that she was therefore ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess *Haéusōs (properly Greek Eos, Latin Aurora, Sanskrit Ushas). [47], Aphrodite's main festival, the Aphrodisia, was celebrated across Greece, but particularly in Athens and Corinth. [277] Many of these poems dealt with Aphrodite's legendary birth from the foam of the sea. [188] Hera tried to bribe Paris with power over all Asia and Europe,[188] and Athena offered wisdom, fame and glory in battle,[188] but Aphrodite promised Paris that, if he were to choose her as the fairest, she would let him marry the most beautiful woman on earth. The two of them conceived Aeneas. [79], The ancient Romans identified Aphrodite with their goddess Venus,[80] who was originally a goddess of agricultural fertility, vegetation, and springtime. Later, Aphrodite was both Adonis’s lover and his surrogate mother. [232], In c. 364/361 BC, the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles carved the marble statue Aphrodite of Knidos,[233][229] which Pliny the Elder later praised as the greatest sculpture ever made. In Homer's Iliad, however, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but Aphrodite did not enter into this union of her own volition. [240] The ancient Romans produced massive numbers of copies of Greek sculptures of Aphrodite[239] and more sculptures of Aphrodite have survived from antiquity than of any other deity.[240]. [54][55] Paphian (Παφία), was one of her epithets, after the Paphos in Cyprus where she had emerged from the sea at her birth. [117] A scholion on Theocritus's Idylls remarks that the sixth-century BC poet Sappho had described Eros as the son of Aphrodite and Uranus,[118] but the first surviving reference to Eros as Aphrodite's son comes from Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, written in the third century BC, which makes him the son of Aphrodite and Ares. [244] Throughout the Middle Ages, villages and communities across Europe still maintained folk tales and traditions about Aphrodite/Venus[245] and travelers reported a wide variety of stories. [221] Aphrodite's other symbols included the sea, conch shells, and roses. Precisely Amamiya Rindou, Tachibana Sakuya and Soma. In German folklore of the 16th century, the narrative becomes associated with the minnesinger Tannhäuser, and in that form the myth was taken up in later literature and opera. [81] Julius Caesar claimed to be directly descended from Aeneas's son Iulus[82] and became a strong proponent of the cult of Venus. [167] The play concludes with Artemis vowing to kill Aphrodite's own mortal beloved (presumably Adonis) in revenge. 64–65, II, n. 208, p. 189; Döhl, Zanker 1979, p. 202, tav. [53] The character of Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, takes differing cult-practices associated with different epithets of the goddess to claim that Ourania and Pandemos are, in fact, separate goddesses. However, in Homer's Iliad, Aphrdodite was the daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Dione, who was either the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, which would make her a Oceanid, which is a water nymph . [64] Next, the altars would be anointed[64] and the cult statues of Aphrodite Pandemos and Peitho would be escorted in a majestic procession to a place where they would be ritually bathed. Because of this, Zeus married Aphrodite to Hephaestus – he wasn’t seen as a threat because of his ugliness and deformity. [107] In another version of the myth, Hephaestus gave his mother Hera a golden throne, but when she sat on it, she became trapped and he refused to let her go until she agreed to give him Aphrodite's hand in marriage. [42] Michael Janda etymologizes Aphrodite's name as an epithet of Eos meaning "she who rises from the foam [of the ocean]"[12] and points to Hesiod's Theogony account of Aphrodite's birth as an archaic reflex of Indo-European myth. She is famous for being the most beautiful of … [33][34] This epithet stresses Aphrodite's connections to Ares, with whom she had extramarital relations. [80] According to the Roman historian Livy, Aphrodite and Venus were officially identified in the third century BC[81] when the cult of Venus Erycina was introduced to Rome from the Greek sanctuary of Aphrodite on Mount Eryx in Sicily. [123], The First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (Hymn 5), which was probably composed sometime in the mid-seventh century BC,[126] describes how Zeus once became annoyed with Aphrodite for causing deities to fall in love with mortals,[126] so he caused her to fall in love with Anchises, a handsome mortal shepherd who lived in the foothills beneath Mount Ida near the city of Troy. To retrieve it, the goddess was forced to submit to Hermes. When Eris found out, she became outraged, so she made a … Her son only venerated Ares and was fully devoted to war, neglecting love and marriage. 7; Spanheim, ad Callim… [289] As one of the twelve Olympians, Aphrodite is a major deity within Hellenismos (Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism),[290][291] a Neopagan religion which seeks to authentically revive and recreate the religion of ancient Greece in the modern world. Eros is usually mentioned as the son of Aphrodite but in other versions he is born out of Chaos. The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia, marking her birthplace, was a place of pilgrimage in the ancient world for centuries. [153][150], The myth of Pygmalion is first mentioned by the third-century BC Greek writer Philostephanus of Cyrene,[154][155] but is first recounted in detail in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Since the Late Middle Ages. For extensive research and a bibliography on the subject, see: de Franciscis 1963, p. 78, tav. [190] This woman was Helen, who was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. [286] Wiccans regard Aphrodite as one aspect of the Goddess[285] and she is frequently invoked by name during enchantments dealing with love and romance. Aphrodite's eyes are made of glass paste, while the presence of holes at the level of the ear-lobes suggest the existence of precious metal ear-rings which have since been lost. [98] In the Iliad, Aphrodite is the apparently unmarried consort of Ares, the god of war,[99] and the wife of Hephaestus is a different goddess named Charis. 146–147; PPM II, 1990, n. 7, p. 532; Armitt 1993, p. 240; Vésuve 1995, n. 53, pp. [238], The Greek painter Apelles of Kos, a contemporary of Praxiteles, produced the panel painting Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite Rising from the Sea). Aphrodite has been featured in Western art as a symbol of female beauty and has appeared in numerous works of Western literature. In the First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, she seduces the mortal shepherd Anchises. In one story, Hera bans her own son Hephaestus from Mount Olympus because he is ugly and deformed. The Goddess is leaning with her left arm (the hand is missing) against a figure of Priapus standing, naked and bearded, positioned on a small cylindrical altar while, next to her left thigh, there is a tree trunk over which the garment of the Goddess is folded. [253] Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) was also partially inspired by a description by Poliziano of a relief on the subject. [66] The fourth day of every month was sacred to Aphrodite. All the gods were invited to the wedding of King Peleus and Thetis, a sea nymph (parents of Achilles), well, all the gods except one, Eris, the goddess of discord. i. [71] Aphrodite's Mesopotamian precursor Inanna-Ishtar was also closely associated with prostitution. She also played a role in the story of Eros and Psyche in which admirers of Psyche neglected to worship Venus (Aphrodite) and instead worshipped her. Aphrodite also slept with the youngest of gods, Dionysus. "[264] A year later, the English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, painted Venus Verticordia (Latin for "Aphrodite, the Changer of Hearts"), showing Aphrodite as a nude red-headed woman in a garden of roses. Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite,scheming daughter of Zeus, I pray you,with pain and sickness, Queen, crush not my heart,but come, if ever in the past you heard my voice from afar and hearkened,and left your father's halls and came, with goldchariot yoked; and pretty sparrowsbrought you swiftly across the dark earthfluttering wings from heaven through the air. Aphrodite is the mother of the god of love, Eros (more familiar as Cupid). [186] Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. [130] He then strips her naked and makes love to her. She supposedly arose from the foam when the Titan Cronus slew his father Uranus and threw his genitals into the sea. [245] Numerous Roman mosaics of Venus survived in Britain, preserving memory of the pagan past. [51] Another common name for Aphrodite was Pandemos ("For All the Folk"). [194] Helen immediately recognizes Aphrodite by her beautiful neck, perfect breasts, and flashing eyes[195] and chides the goddess, addressing her as her equal. [292][better source needed] Unlike Wiccans, Hellenists are usually strictly polytheistic or pantheistic. [58] Hesiod references it once in his Theogony in the context of Aphrodite's birth,[59] but interprets it as "genital-loving" rather than "smile-loving". [163] In anger, the women of Lemnos murdered the entire male population of the island, as well as all the Thracian slaves. Despite this marriage to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had many lovers. The resulting offspring, Agrius and Oreius, were wild cannibals who incurred the hatred of Zeus. [21][7] Most scholars reject this etymology as implausible,[19][7][20] especially since Aphrodite actually appears in Etruscan in the borrowed form Apru (from Greek Aphrō, clipped form of Aphrodite). ), one of her main purposes was the admonishment and the ma… If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. Because of this Venus [Aphrodite] inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull [183] or she cursed her because she was Helios's daughter who revealed her adultery to Hephaistos. Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. These girls by reason of the wrath of Aphrodite (reasons unknown) cohabited with foreigners, and ended their life in Egypt. [44] Both Aphrodite and Eos were known for their erotic beauty and aggressive sexuality[42] and both had relationships with mortal lovers. [223] Her most important fruit emblem was the apple,[224] but she was also associated with pomegranates,[225] possibly because the red seeds suggested sexuality[226] or because Greek women sometimes used pomegranates as a method of birth control. Her Belt Held Special Powers. yes, thank you! In the case of Aphrodite’s children, they represented particular emotions. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. In their madness, they raped Halia. As irony would have it, Aphrodite happened to walk by this myrrh tree at this exact moment. [141], Aphrodite found the baby, and took him to the underworld to be fostered by Persephone. "[222], While Fulgentius had appropriated Aphrodite as a symbol of Lust,[246] Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) interpreted her as a symbol of marital procreative sex[246] and declared that the moral of the story of Aphrodite's birth is that sex can only be holy in the presence of semen, blood, and heat, which he regarded as all being necessary for procreation. [165] Aphrodite therefore causes Hippolytus's stepmother, Phaedra, to fall in love with him, knowing Hippolytus will reject her. Thus she was also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus), because both locations claimed to be the place of her birth. [4][6] Early modern scholars of classical mythology attempted to argue that Aphrodite's name was of Greek or Indo-European origin, but these efforts have now been mostly abandoned. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on … [220] Votive offerings of small, white, marble doves were also discovered in the temple of Aphrodite at Daphni. Along with Athena and Hera, Aphrodite was one of the three goddesses whose feud resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War and she plays a major role throughout the Iliad. Link will appear as Aphrodite: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net - Greek Gods & Goddesses, September 19, 2014, © Greek Gods and Goddesses 2010 - 2021 | About | Contact | Privacy, Aphrodite: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net, Dolphin, Rose, Scallop Shell, Myrtle, Dove, Sparrow, Girdle, Mirror, and Swan, Hephaestus, Ares, Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Adonis, and Anchises, Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Pothos, Anteros, Himeros, Hermaphroditos, Rhode, Eryx, Peitho, Eunomia, The Graces, Priapus, Aeneas and Tyche (possibly). [36][37], Nineteenth century classical scholars had a general aversion to the idea that ancient Greek religion was at all influenced by the cultures of the Near East,[38] but, even Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, who argued that Near Eastern influence on Greek culture was largely confined to material culture,[38] admitted that Aphrodite was clearly of Phoenician origin. Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty & Eternal Youth Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty and according to Hesiod’s Theogony, she was born from the foam in the waters of Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess Venus. 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 the information they got, there were massive amounts of Aragami in Aphrodite’s surrounding area. Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty and according to Hesiod’s Theogony, she was born from the foam in the waters of Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. [143] Reportedly, as she mourned Adonis's death, she caused anemones to grow wherever his blood fell,[143] and declared a festival on the anniversary of his death. God Eater Resurrection & God Eater 2 Rage Burst: A composite Type 1 Deusphage formed from a variety of different Aragami. Leucippus, failing to recognize his father at first, slew him. After Kronos sliced Ouranos to pieces with his scythe, his remains fell into the sea and his immortal essence created sea foam firtilized by his seed and from that foam, Aphrodite was born fully grown. [162] A myth described in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica and later summarized in the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus tells how, when the women of the island of Lemnos refused to sacrifice to Aphrodite, the goddess cursed them to stink horribly so that their husbands would never have sex with them. [163] Instead, their husbands started having sex with their Thracian slave-girls. [227], A scene of Aphrodite rising from the sea appears on the back of the Ludovisi Throne (c. 460 BC),[230] which was probably originally part of a massive altar that was constructed as part of the Ionic temple to Aphrodite in the Greek polis of Locri Epizephyrii in Magna Graecia in southern Italy. [166] Theseus prays to Poseidon to kill Hippolytus for his transgression. She is a member of the Twelve Olympian gods who live on Mount Olympus. [88], According to the version of her birth recounted by Hesiod in his Theogony,[89][90] Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea. [50] At Cape Colias, a town along the Attic coast, she was venerated as Genetyllis "Mother". On hearing him enter, she tried to escape, but Xanthius hit her with a dagger, thinking that he was slaying the seducer, and killed her. [231] Scenes with Aphrodite appear in works of classical Greek pottery,[232] including a famous white-ground kylix by the Pistoxenos Painter dating the between c. 470 and 460 BC, showing her riding on a swan or goose. [189], All three goddesses were ideally beautiful and Paris could not decide between them, so they resorted to bribes. Aphrodite is one of the playable Gods in SMITE. The Ludovisi Throne (possibly c. 460 BC) is believed to be a classical Greek bas-relief, although it has also been alleged to be a 19th-century forgery. [45], Aphrodite's most common cultic epithet was Ourania, meaning "heavenly",[49][50] but this epithet almost never occurs in literary texts, indicating a purely cultic significance. [175] Queen Cenchreis of Cyprus and wife of King Cinyras bragged her daughter Myrrha more beautiful than Aphrodite. 100–101; De Caro 2000, p. 46 e tav. [259][260] In 1863, Alexandre Cabanel won widespread critical acclaim at the Paris Salon for his painting The Birth of Venus, which the French emperor Napoleon III immediately purchased for his own personal art collection. ACRAEA (Akraia). The statuette portrays Aphrodite on the point of untying the laces of the sandal on her left foot, under which a small Eros squats, touching the sole of her shoe with his right hand. The Phoenicians, in turn, taught her worship to the people of Cythera. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, the god of fire, blacksmiths and metalworking. Prostitutes considered the Goddess of Love their patron. [178] Mousa Clio derided the goddess' own love for Adonis. Today, the Quest falls to the First Unit body from Far East Branch. [176][140][176][141][177] Cinyras has also three another daughters and their names Braesia, Laogora, Orsedice. XCI; Kraus 1973, nn. [137][136] The earliest known Greek reference to Adonis comes from a fragment of a poem by the Lesbian poetess Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BC), in which a chorus of young girls asks Aphrodite what they can do to mourn Adonis's death. The first is simple: She was the child of Zeus and Dione. Venus, n. 182; LIMC VIII, 2, 1997, p. 144; LIMC VIII, 1, 1997, p. 1031, s.v. [251] The story of Aphrodite's birth from the foam was a popular subject matter for painters during the Italian Renaissance,[252] who were attempting to consciously reconstruct Apelles of Kos's lost masterpiece Aphrodite Anadyomene based on the literary ekphrasis of it preserved by Cicero and Pliny the Elder. "Smother teammates with healing powers and protect them with invulnerability." This led to a feud with Persephone in which Zeus decreed Adonis should spend half of the year with Aphrodite and half of the year with Persephone. [96], Aphrodite is consistently portrayed as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult, having had no childhood. [200] Zeus chides her for putting herself in danger,[200][201] reminding her that "her specialty is love, not war. She was the patron goddess of the city of Argos. [70] Records of numerous dedications to Aphrodite made by successful courtesans have survived in poems and in pottery inscriptions. [180][181] when Aegiale went so far as to threaten his life, he fled to Italy. [140] Driven out after becoming pregnant, Myrrha was changed into a myrrh tree, but still gave birth to Adonis. [169] During the chariot race at the funeral games of King Pelias, Aphrodite drove his horses mad and they tore him apart. [142] Then, one day, while Adonis was hunting, he was wounded by a wild boar and bled to death in Aphrodite's arms. [156][159] Pygmalion married the girl the statue became and they had a son named Paphos, after whom the capital of Cyprus received its name. [261] Édouard Manet's 1865 painting Olympia parodied the nude Venuses of the Academic painters, particularly Cabanel's Birth of Venus. The Russian Branch’s God Eaters were to block these Aragami and isolate them from Aphrodite while the Far East Branch’s First Unit were attacking it. This union produced a double-sexed child: Hermaphroditus. Hesiod derives Aphrodite from aphrós (ἀφρός) "sea-foam",[4] interpreting the name as "risen from the foam",[5][4] but most modern scholars regard this as a spurious folk etymology. The god of the sea, Poseidon, then sees the goddess naked and falls in love with Aphrodite. [190] Paris selected Aphrodite and awarded her the apple. [129] Anchises takes Aphrodite, with her eyes cast downwards, to his bed, which is covered in the furs of lions and bears. God Eater Burst: A DLC Aragami who in the pursuit of attractiveness became an amalgamation of various monsters. [171], According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, jealous Aphrodite who cursed goddess of dawn to be perpetually in love and have an insatiable sexual desire because once had Eos lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, the god of war. Aphrodite loved Adonis. [163] From then on, the women of Lemnos never disrespected Aphrodite again. [253] Titian's biographer Giorgio Vasari identified all of Titian's paintings of naked women as paintings of "Venus",[254] including an erotic painting from c. 1534, which he called the Venus of Urbino, even though the painting does not contain any of Aphrodite/Venus's traditional iconography and the woman in it is clearly shown in a contemporary setting, not a classical one. [280], In 1938, Gleb Botkin, a Russian immigrant to the United States, founded the Church of Aphrodite, a neopagan religion centered around the worship of a mother goddess, whom its practitioners identified as Aphrodite.
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