APHRODITE & ARTEMIS

Aphrodite

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) punishment of Hippolytus

Paphos

Birth of Aphrodite

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) punishment of Hippolytus

Two Births of Aphrodite (1) genitals of Cronus Aphrodite (2) Zeus + Dione

Only three creatures uninfluenced by power of Aphrodite?

Only three creatures uninfluenced by power of Aphrodite Only three creatures uninfluenced by power of Aphrodite? Athena Artemis Hestia

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) punishment of Hippolytus

Aphrodite

Offspring of Chaos

Eros storm wind fire in the bones poison eros disease madness loss of self-control destructiveness

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) punishment of Hippolytus

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Temple Prostitution in Corinth The temple of Aphrodite was so rich that it employed more than a thousand hetairas, whom both men and women had given to the goddess. Many people visited the town on account of them, and thus these hetairas contributed to the riches of the town: for the ship captains frivolously spent their money there, hence the saying: “The voyage to Corinth is not for every man.” —Strabo (1st cent. BCE)

Androgyny (此雄通体)

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

kestos

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Aphrodite & Adonis / Aphrodite & Anchises

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Eris

Judgment of Paris

Paris & Helen

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Aphrodite & Hephaestus

Ares & Aphrodite

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Hermaphroditus

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) death of Adonis punishment of Hippolytus

Aphrodite & Adonis

DOUBLE BIRTH penis of Uranus + sea foam (aphros) Zeus + Dione CULT incense gardens doves and sparrows androgyny temple prostitution renewable virginity kestos MAJOR MYTHS Aphrodite and Adonis, Aphrodite and Anchises Judgment of Paris adultery with Ares Aphrodite + Hermes > Hermaphroditus (+ Salamis > first hermaphrodite) punishment of Hippolytus

Aegeus ++++ Aethra ++++Poseidon. |. |. Hippolyta ++Theseus ++ Phaedra Aegeus ++++ Aethra ++++Poseidon | | Hippolyta ++Theseus ++ Phaedra | Hippolytus

Hippolytus

ARTEMIS

Artemis

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Artemis

Apollo & Artemis

Artemis

teenage girl nympha nubile (适婚的) girl nymph (仙女)

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Artemis potnia theron

Artemis potnia theron

Artemis potnia theron

Artemis potnia theron

Artemis of Ephesus

Artemis

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Artemis, Apollo, Children of Niobe

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Mytheme 1 (Actaeon) Hunter crosses into woodland space sacred to Artemis. Hunter pursues and rapes nympha. Artemis transforms hunter into animal (stag). Hunting dogs attack and kill hunter.

Actaeon

Actaeon

Mytheme 2 (Callisto) Nympha is raped. Nympha conceals pregnancy until detected. Artemis turns nympha into a bear. Nympha as bear gives birth to human boy. Boy grows up to be hunter. Hunter pursues and unknowingly kills bear.

Callisto

trespassing sexual violation voyeurism human sacrifice sex/rape

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Iphigenia

“LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls ARCHAIC ARTEMIS Artemis Agrotera (Of the Wild) potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus roots in paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer to Hera and Aphrodite

Aphrodite & Adonis • Aphrodite has sex with Adonis • Adonis castrates himself • Adonis goared in groin by boar sent by Artemis to avenge death of Hippolytus

Functions of Artemis “LITERARY” ARTEMIS goddess of hunt nympha retinue of teenage girls (nymphae) ARCHAIC ARTEMIS potnia thêrôn Artemis of Ephesus paleolithic hunting societies MYTHS Niobe Actaeon and Callisto Agamemnon and Iphigenia murder of Adonis CULT transition from girl (nympha) to woman (gynê) transfer from Artemis to Hera and Aphrodite

Binary Relationships ARTEMIS APHRODITE virginity sexual activity girl korê/nympha woman gynê

Binary Relationships ARTEMIS APHRODITE HERA virginity sexual activity marriage, childbirth girl korê/nympha woman gynê

Hunting HUNTING chase capture kill

Hunting & Marriage HUNTING MARRIAGE chase courtship/dating capture arrangement kill marriage/rape

Hunting, Marriage, Sacrifice IMAGE chase courtship/dating capture arrangement kill marriage/rape blood killing of animal animal sacrifice human sacrifice menarche sexual initiation

Aegeus ==== Aethra ===Poseidon | | Hippolyta ==Theseus == Phaedra | Hippolytus