12/25/2023 0 Comments Moon of jupiter named after a muse![]() There Aphrodite rose out of the sea from the foam (hence her name came from the word aphros, which means foam). When the Titan Cronus severed his father's (Uranus) genitals and flung them into the sea, the blood and semen caused foam to gather and float across the sea to the island of Cyprus. In the first version told by Hesiod, she was older than the Olympians. The birth of Venusīirth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485-86) (credit: Uffizi Gallery, Florence) Also she is said to be a daughter of Zeus or to have sprung from the foam of the sea. Venus/Aphrodite is known as the Daughter of Heaven and Sea, the child of Uranus and Gaia. The Saxons used the name of their fertility goddess, Fria, which led to the English name of Friday, whereas the French name Vendredi indicates its Greek-Latin origin. She was associated with the metal copper (from Cyprus, which was Aphrodite's birthplace), a flattish triangle, the number five, the colour blue, and the day Friday. To the Greeks this was Aphrodite, to the Egyptians the goddess Isis and to the Phoenicians the goddess Astrate. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and peace. Venus as a bright star shining in the sky (credit: British Astronomical Association) Venus and Aphrodite So it is clear that Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It was identified with both the Morning Star and the Evening Star and sometimes any other bright planet which happened to be visible such as Jupiter or Mars. ![]() In Siberia it was the only planet to have a name and was called Cholbon. As Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, it is the most frequently seen of all the planets.
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