Monday 30 November 2015

Personify your love with Aphrodite


Aphrodite, the Greek goddess personifying love, pleasure, procreation and beauty, she has her Roman equivalent or aspect which is also the name of a planet, Venus. Like many ancient Greek gods or deities, there are many stories relating to her birth or origins. Written in Hesiod's Theogony is one of the theory of her birth as she was born at the place where Cronus or Kronos cut off Ouranus’s or Uranus's genitals after his castration and threw it in the sea where she arose from the foam created from the parts (aphros), while in Homer's Iliad, she is considered as the daughter of Dione and Zeus, the lord of sky. According to texts written in Plato (Symposium, 180e), these origins are considered as the origin of two entirely different or separate entities named Aphrodite Ourania and Aphrodite Pandemos. Her beauty made other gods fear that they may fight due to their rivalry over this beauty and it would lead to interruption of the peace among them and may lead to war, so Hera and Zeus, the queen and king of gods married Aphrodite or Venus to Vulcan or Hephaestus, who was not seen as a threat due to his ugliness and deformity and he was one of the strongest gods in strength due to his being Lord of blacksmiths, craftmen, metals and fire. In spite of her marriage Venus had many flings and a string of lovers which included both gods, men, dryads and other intelligent creatures, we can take the example of a god as Ares, the god of war and from men we can consider Anchises who was the father of Aeneas, the man who founded the Roman Empire. She also took part in the legend of Eros and Psyche, and later she played the role of both Adonis's lover as well his surrogate mother. Valentine's Day, which is also known as Saint Valentine's Day is a celebration which is observed on the day of February the 14th each year. On this day It is celebrated across the globe in many countries by giving gifts for her in Pune while in some countries it is a custom to give chocolates to men or boys by a girl who either helped her or of she loved him, if a girl gave chocolates to the one who helped her than it is called customary chocolate while if she loved her then it will be love chocolates, you can also order online chocolate cake in Pune or order gifts for your love in Pune by many online portals.
This Day began as a liturgical celebration and it is celebrated on the occasion of one early Christian saints who was named Valentinus. Several stories relating to martyrdom were invented for the people who celebrated the later Valentine’s days belonging to February the 14th, and it all added to many new martyrologies. One of the popular account of the aforementioned Saint of Rome states that he performed many weddings for soldiers who were not allowed to marry which is one of the reason for his imprisonment while the other reason being the ministration of Christians, who were persecuted under the rule of the great Roman Empire, other legends also tell that during his imprisonment, he also healed Asterius, the daughter of his jailer. Love is said to be the most popular and powerful emotion in the emotional rainbow, it is rightly said that love can even move mountains and love can make and break a family, relation and make others connected by the ties of love happy.

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