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Beautiful and enchanting, she was frequently depicted nude, as a symmetrically perfect maiden, infinitely desirable and as infinitely out of reach. She was sometimes represented alongside Eros and with some of her major attributes and symbols: a magical girdle and a shell, a dove or a sparrow, roses, and myrtles.
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Venus is almost always depicted as a beautiful and voluptuous young woman, and is symbolized by roses, doves, trees, pine cones, and wild berries.
Lisa Chamberlain • Wicca Magical Deities: A Guide to the Wiccan God and Goddess, and Choosing a Deity to Work Magic With (Wicca for Beginners Series)
Venus: the principle of desire, love, beauty, value; the impulse and capacity to attract and be attracted, to love and be loved, to seek and create beauty and harmony,
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Adonis was young and beautiful. Ideal in his form. So ideal that even Aphrodite herself, the goddess of love and beauty couldn’t resist him. Her desire so intense, in fact, that she twisted the fates to have her love.
Lauren Hall • Desire Is Dead
Aphrodite protected him and appointed Persephone to raise him. Adonis grew into an astonishingly beautiful young man, causing Persephone to fell in love with him too. Persephone refused to give Adonis back to Aphrodite; this led to a dispute that was solved by Zeus . As a result, Adonis would spend a third of a year with each goddess, and one third... See more