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Venus Calva ("Venus the bald one"), a legendary form of Venus, attested only by post-Classical Roman writings which offer several traditions to explain this appearance and epithet. In one, it commemorates the virtuous offer by Roman matrons of their own hair to make bowstrings during a siege of Rome.
Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Statue of the so-called 'Aphrodite on a tortoise', 430–420 BCE, Athens [a]Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her ...
Venus Pandemos (Charles Gleyre, 1854) Roman cameo, 1st century BC - 2nd century, National Museum of Naples. Aphrodite Pandemos (Ancient Greek: Πάνδημος, romanized: Pándēmos; "common to all the people") occurs as an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. This epithet can be interpreted in different ways.
Šarrat-nipḫa was an epithet of Inanna in her astral role as Venus, possibly derived from the term nipḫu, referring to the rising or "lighting up" of this planet. [129] Šarrat-šamê "Queen of heaven" [130] Šarrat-šamê was a title of Inanna as the evening star (Venus). [130]
Venus is important in many Australian aboriginal cultures, such as that of the Yolngu people in Northern Australia. The Yolngu gather after sunset to await the rising of Venus, which they call Barnumbirr. As she approaches, in the early hours before dawn, she draws behind her a rope of light attached to the Earth, and along this rope, with the ...
Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. [1] Macrobius [ 2 ] also mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus , representing the goddess with a beard, in female attire, but resembling in her whole figure that of a man (see also Aphroditus ). [ 3 ]
Venus Castina ('Chaste Venus') from Latin castus, is claimed to be an epithet of the Roman goddess Venus; in this form, she was supposedly associated with "the yearnings of feminine souls locked up in male bodies". [1] Cesare Lombroso wrote that at Rome, the Venus of the sodomites received the title of Castina.
Although Venus had an archaic origin in Rome and Latium, the cult of Venus Obsequens was the earliest established in the Greek manner to Venus equated with Aphrodite as a goddess of sexuality. [13] The adjective obsequens , often translated as "deferential" (hence English "obsequious"), as a divine epithet expresses favor or active support ...