aphrodite

aphrodite, the goddess of love, sexuality, pleasure, beauty, and procreation, is a deity from the greek pantheon. her parents are suspected to be either zeus and dione or uranus's severed genitals. she has many children and consorts, some of which are: consorts ares, hephaestus, hermes, dionysus, and adonis. children: eros, harmonia, phobos and deimos, eryx, and priapus. some of her symbols are: a girdle, a mirror, a pearl, doves, myrtles, sparrows, swans, dolphins, scallop shells, and roses. her roman equivalent is venus, her mespotamian equivalent is inanna/ishtar, and her canannite equivilant is astarte.