The story of Venus in Greek mythology

The sculptor Pygmalion fell in love with the ivory woman he carved. Venus gave the ivory woman life to complete his love. She and the sculptor had a son named Caniras, and Caniras and Sikaris had a daughter, Milla.

Poor Mila was mocked by fate, fell in love with her father, got pregnant with incest, and finally died of shame in a myrrh tree. Soon, the tree split and gave birth to a child named adonis.

One day, Venus was playing with her son Cupid, and her chest was injured by Cupid's bow and arrow. The wound is deeper than Venus thought. In the process of treating the wound, Venus met adonis and fell in love at first sight. ?

After Venus fell in love with adonis, she was not interested in anything else. She left her residence in Olympus and went to the forest. Dressed as Huntress, she asked the young man to accompany her all day and accompany him all over Qian Shan. She followed the hounds, cheering and chasing harmless animals.

They had a wonderful time together. Although she advised him many times not to kill wild animals like lions and wolves, the young people just laughed at her idea.

One day, after she advised him in this way, she got into a carriage and went to Mount Olympus. As luck would have it, the hound in adonis found a wild boar, which excited adonis. He shot the wild boar with an arrow, but the wild boar didn't die. He turned and hit him, and his fangs went deep into adonis's vital parts, killing him.

When Venus came back, she found that her lover's bones were cold and her face was full of tears. But Venus couldn't pull him back from the underworld, so she spilled wine on adonis's blood and turned it into autumn peony. ?

Venus's heart did not calm down because of this. Under the cover of sadness and despair, she flew to Zeus and begged his pity. Hades had no intention of agreeing to her request. After some arguments, they reached an agreement: adonis can spend half a year with Venus in the underworld, but the remaining half will be spent in heaven.

Therefore, every spring, adonis will be reincarnated back to Venus and enjoy her loving embrace, but in winter, he has to reluctantly return to Hades.

Venus was originally an Italian goddess. Her name may be synonymous with green vegetables. At first, she was an elf in the orchard, which made the orchard harvest. Orchard workers will have a holiday to celebrate Vignaria Festival. Her Roman alias, Muir Teia, may be derived from the Latin peach tree or guava tree, representing her status as the goddess of the orchard. At the same time, she was also the personification of "God's grace" at first.

Because of the spread of Aeneas myth in Rome in the later period, Venus was regarded by the Romans as the Greek goddess Aphrodite, so Venus became the goddess of beauty and love in the later period.

At the same time, Pompeii built the Temple of Venus Victrix, and Venus also corresponds to the goddess of victory. At the same time, the Egyptian and Near Eastern goddesses Isis and Ashtar are also related to Venus.

Venus has aliases such as "compassion", "do no evil", "immediately" and "decadence", which means that Roman women cut off their hair and made ropes for the army to use when fighting Gaul.

At first, she may be an orchard elf. Her alias is Moore Teia, which may mean "mountain peach" in Latin. In the later period, Venus became the goddess of beauty and love, because she was equivalent to Aphrodite in Greek mythology, and little love god Cupid was her son.

Latin words such as "Venus" and "Friday" all come from here. Venus also appeared in many literary works and western oil paintings in past dynasties. The most influential work of art is the Venus statue found in the cave of Milos Island in the Aegean Sea in 1820.

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