Aphrodite Body Care Bundle. 2 Piece Body Lotion for Intense Hydration and Supple Skin. Includes Body Lotion with Aloe Vera (200 ml) and Body Lotion with Mango & Papaya (200 ml)

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Natural aloe latex, enriched with phyto antioxidants, helps to protect your skin from environmental hazards and free radicals. The Greek name Ἄδωνις ( Adōnis, Greek pronunciation: [ádɔːnis]) is derived from the Canaanite word ʼadōn, meaning "lord". Pausanias also records that, in Sparta [36] [37] and on Cythera, a number of extremely ancient cult statues of Aphrodite portrayed her bearing arms. Another common type of statue is known as Aphrodite Kallipygos, the name of which is Greek for "Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks"; [272] this type of sculpture shows Aphrodite lifting her peplos to display her buttocks to the viewer while looking back at them from over her shoulder.

Other common literary epithets are Cypris and Cythereia, [63] which derive from her associations with the islands of Cyprus and Cythera respectively. Corinth also had a major temple to Aphrodite located on the Acrocorinth [74] and was one of the main centers of her cult. In Book XIV of the Iliad, during the Dios Apate episode, Aphrodite lends her kestos himas to Hera for the purpose of seducing Zeus and distracting him from the combat while Poseidon aids the Greek forces on the beach. Soothing body lotion from Aphrodite is a unique beauty aid for the intense everyday care of dry and sensitive skin. I will put the date of my seventy-five years on it and afterwards I will never again pick up my brush.

interpreted her as a symbol of marital procreative sex [278] and declared that the moral of the story of Aphrodite's birth is that sex can only be holy in the presence of semen, blood, and heat, which he regarded as all being necessary for procreation. Gordon (1968), Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. Zeus chides her for putting herself in danger, [223] [224] reminding her that "her specialty is love, not war. Because Aphrodite was the mother of the Trojan hero Aeneas in Greek mythology [85] and Roman tradition claimed Aeneas as the founder of Rome, [85] Venus became venerated as Venus Genetrix, the mother of the entire Roman nation. Poseidon sends a wild bull to scare Hippolytus's horses as he is riding by the sea in his chariot, causing the horses to bolt and smash the chariot against the cliffs, dragging Hippolytus to a bloody death across the rocky shoreline.

In modern times, Eros is often seen as Aphrodite's son, [129] but this is actually a comparatively late innovation.

The unique synergy of 6 essential oils of black pepper, ginger, basil, juniper, fennel and cypress facilitates the elimination of toxins, stimulates circulation and reduces fluid retention. Aphrodite frequently appears with doves in ancient Greek pottery [244] and the temple of Aphrodite Pandemos on the southwest slope of the Athenian Acropolis was decorated with relief sculptures of doves with knotted fillets in their beaks. At the same time, many of them can also have positive effects – some lower cholesterol, others reduce inflammation.

Gay, Peter (1998), Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, New York and London: W. Make a difference to your day and take a peek at some of the best body care products Aphrodite has to offer.Our beautifying body care bestsellers feature decadent formulas, state-of-the-art ingredients and softening additions to make you feel better in an instant. However, argan oil is added to the De-Stress souffle because we want to provide adequate protection when moisturizing the skin. Eros is usually mentioned as the son of Aphrodite but in other versions he is a parentless primordial. Across the Greek world, she was known under epithets such as Melainis "Black One", Skotia "Dark One", Androphonos "Killer of Men", Anosia "Unholy", and Tymborychos "Gravedigger", [51] all of which indicate her darker, more violent nature. Anchises takes Aphrodite, with her eyes cast downwards, to his bed, which is covered in the furs of lions and bears.

In the Cypriot syllabary, a syllabic script used on the island of Cyprus from the eleventh until the fourth century BC, her name is attested in the forms 𐠀𐠡𐠦𐠭𐠃𐠂 (a-po-ro-ta-o-i, read right-to-left), [23] 𐠀𐠡𐠦𐠯𐠭𐠂 (a-po-ro-ti-ta-i, samewise), [24] and finally 𐠀𐠡𐠦𐠯𐠪𐠈 (a-po-ro-ti-si-jo, "Aphrodisian", "related to Aphrodite", in the context of a month). According to Hesiod, Theogony 183–200, Aphrodite was born from Uranus' severed genitals, see Gantz, pp. The Birth of Venus (1863) by Alexandre Cabanel Jacques-Louis David's final work was his 1824 magnum opus, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus, [287] which combines elements of classical, Renaissance, traditional French art, and contemporary artistic styles. Timandra deserted Echemus and went and came to Phyleus and Clytaemnestra deserted Agamemnon and lay with Aegisthus who was a worse mate for her and eventually killed her husband with her lover and finally, Helen of Troy deserted Menelaus under the influence of Aphrodite for Paris and her unfaitfulness eventually causes the War of Troy.In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the young soldier Alectryon by the door to warn of Helios's arrival but Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. In 1867, the English Academic painter Frederic Leighton displayed his Venus Disrobing for the Bath at the academy.