Aphrodite - The Ultimate Femme Fatale

#aphrodite Why is beauty so frightening? Join in me looking at how Aphrodite defied all ancient gender norms and expectations of domesticity. A wife and mother unlike any other, the goddess of love and sex feared no one and let no one trap her in the expectations of her gender. While Aphrodite is most commonly known as Venus in the modern world, little is ever discussed about her tragic love affair with Ares, her forced marriage to Hephaestus and her celebrated coupling with Hermes. And that's before we get to her children! Mother of divine and mortal children, Aphrodite is a symbol of all aspects of the divine feminine, from fertility to fierceness. Let's talk about all the ways she had been overthrowing the patriarchy since the beginning of time :)

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