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APHRODITE (Venus) 🕊 Goddess of Love, Beauty, Passion and Pleasure
🕊 This video takes a look at how Aphrodite's sensual influence helped start The Renaissance and changed our lives forever.
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CONTENTS
0:00 INTRO
0:16 I - SKIN DEEP
2:00 II - ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
3:00 III - LIGHT BRINGER
4:49 IV - RISEN FROM THE SEA FOAM
5:33 V - THE RENAISSANCE
7:39 OUTRO
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Here’s the Address to Venus in “On the Nature of Things” by Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius:
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Here are links to the images used in the video. I am not done adding all of them just yet and will add the remaining ones in the next days:
1. Venus with a Mirror (detail), Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), Italian Renaissance circa 1555
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2. Vénus d'Arles, Louvre, Roman Imperial
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3. A Roman Marble Head of Aphrodite
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4. The Birth of Venus (details), Sandro Botticelli, Florence, ca 1485
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5. Cylinder Seal imprint showing Ishtar, Babylonian goddess of love and war, Iraq, Akkadian Period, Reign of Naramsin or Sharkalishari, ca. 2254-2193 B.C.
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6. The Mask of Warka (named after the modern village of Warka located close to the ancient city of Uruk), also known as the Lady of Uruk, dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest representations of the human face.
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7. Venus, Sandro Botticelli ca 1485
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8. Venus, Andy Warhol 1984
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9. The Birth of Venus, Henri Gervex, 1907
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Video clips come from:
Marie Antoinette (2006) by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst
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FKA Twigs - cellophane music video (2019)
• FKA twigs - cellophane
Various CC video clips
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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess Venus. Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (αφρός aphrós) produced by Uranus's genitals, which his son Cronus has severed and thrown into the sea. In Homer's Iliad, however, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Plato, in his Symposium 180e, asserts that these two origins actually belong to separate entities: Aphrodite Ourania (a transcendent, "Heavenly" Aphrodite) and Aphrodite Pandemos (Aphrodite common to "all the people"). Aphrodite had many other epithets, each emphasizing a different aspect of the same goddess, or used by a different local cult. Thus she was also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus), because both locations claimed to be the place of her birth.
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Thanks so much for your thoughtful and encouraging comment! What a nice thing to read first thing in the morning.
@@TinyEpics i am from India and know a lot about Hindu mythology ahem.. history 😂😂 .. Incase you ever decide to make a video on that topic 👍👍👍👍 Continue ur good work and complete the olympian series. Also include Hestia coz she was the original olympian later replaced by Dionysus
@@TinyEpics Hi.. just wanted to know.. where did u get the source tht Venus was born in Cyprus and is associated with ancient Eastern civilisation goddesses like Ishtar and Innana and predating even the greek civilization.
I would love to read tht .. thank u🙏
That was my own hypothesis as I know that the Greek gods and goddesses all have roots in older divinities… specifically those from the Near East. Though of course the Hellenic gods became their own thing. And after I made that video I realized sources say she was “born on Cythera and wafted to Cyprus”. I edited that out in this updated video on Aphrodite.
One book that I read recently was “Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess”. In it, the author Nanno Marinatos compares the Minoans on Crete with the Near Eastern cultures which surrounded them. And I have the feeling that those Bronze Age Cretan dieties helped give rise to the later Hellenic gods and goddesses. It’s a bit complicated but really interesting to go back long before the classical Greek world and kind of take a glimpse at where this complex mythology began. Hope that helps!
She was probably able to appear to you in a form that you find most beautiful and perfect.
That makes a lot of sense. I think everyone “sees” her differently.
wow! that's a good analyzation! I've never thought of it that way...
This is how she is described in Percy Jackson :p
So as a man I would say for me and my subjective experience, that would be a beautiful woman lol
The last two minutes are the most important
Emancipate yourself from fear and control
Perhaps only one side of Venus. Perhaps the justice side is Athenic. Apply it to the zodiac. She goes in virgo to analyse, then balance the scales in Libra. She can, if necessary turn into Scorpio, whose anger is stopped by the kindness is Sagittarius. That's one path.
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Where can one learn more about this
this video is so accurate to aphrodite, i love that you represented her through sofia coppola and fka twigs, they are excellent examples of feminine energy portayed in modern art, the divinity of being a woman
It’s just simply a miracle that we get clarification after all this while,as if it was magik...
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A beautiful comment. Thank you for watching ❤️
Indian philosophy is soo similar to greeks.... ❤❤ venus is considered to be the one who became master of asuras (demons) it is because of him they recieved their powers and so the new chapters in human history began. It is also considered to be the power of mother goddess.... (the purity in planet venus)
That’s really fascinating. Thank you for sharing!
Perhaps this is because of the common indoeuropean descent of the ancient Greeks and the aryan part of the Indian population.
Thank Goddess that poem was found.
I would have loved to see Elle fanning in the miniature because for me she is the most beautiful in the world, like Aphrodite. good video! I loved it⚘
So happy you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting and hello from Greece 🇬🇷
I would love to an episode about Psyche, the Goddess of the Soul. And Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory.
you know, I learn a lot.. I thought I'll just be reviewing what I know about Aphrodite.. but it's nice to know her counterparts.. 👍👍
This makes me so happy to read. Thank you for watching and for your lovely comment.
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Great job! And FKA Twigs would definitely be my choice for Aphrodite in a cast for a movie
Aww thanks so much! Right? Her sublime Cellophane video came to me at the last moment and I also think FKA Twigs would make a STUNNING Aphrodite in an upcoming movie.
I think it would be better to cast a Greek woman as Aphrodite, instead of being a hypocrite and continue commericialising and politicising someone else's culture. Then someday black people can make a movie about black mythology or folklore and cast FKA twigs in that. Aphrodite literally means from the sea foam, and she was described as white and shining. The hypocritical impulsion for modern americanised society to take thousands of years old European mythology and fuck with it, like it's a fanfiction of some meaningless cartoon, is so disrespectful, hypocritical, (and not to mention patronising to brown people (who have their own ignored mythologies to draw from). Then you pat yourselves on the shoulder for cutting the people from their own myths. Like the "Saami" inspired people in Frozen 2 and countless more in America and Britain. It's gross when it happens to Egyptian mythology, but sweet and cool when it happens to the Greeks, who have been occupied, oppressed and massacred for hundreds of years. If Mulan can have a full asian cast, then movies about white myth and folklore can have full European cast, and native american movies can have full tribal cast, and so on. If you want to prove that no race has no entitlement to another's culture, that would be the best and only way to do it.
@@krift1716 wow, boy
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I can see your point in some instances. Look, I think it all comes down to intention. Is something created with respect and knowledge of its subject, or just to make money? That makes all the difference.
Lana del Rey wearing an important Native American ceremonial headdress because she thinks it looks cool and sexy in a music video is a good example of poor taste and judgement.
But an independent film on ancient archetypes like the goddess of love Inanna/Ishtar/Isis/Astarte/Aphrodite/Venus?
Sure, why not? She is a frequency. An energy. Not a specific historical figure. That is just my opinion as an artist and researcher though. I respect the fact that others will disagree.
One last thing: I think Greek mythology is unique in that most people in the Westen World feel that it belongs to all of us without ignoring the fact that it is specifically Hellenic with regards to its cultural expression. In English, for example, you have an incredible amount of words that stem from Greek, and American law and American culture have been largely shaped by the ancient Greek mindset, although of course in some regards it’s gone very far from it, too. Even our major government buildings are modeled after Greek temples.
What I also tried to show in my video is how Aphrodite has been interpreted and reinterpreted over thousands of years.
She is the Hellenized form of a much earlier divinity. In fact, you could probably trace her all the way back to Paleolithic worship if you want. Marija Gimbutas did just that.
If you look at things this way, “ownership” of humanity’s stories is irrelevant. They belong to us all, though we honor them as having originated in their respective cultures.
From the research I’ve done, it seems people in the ancient world, especially in the cosmopolitan Middle-Late Bronze Age world of the ancient Aegean, Levant, Egypt, Near East were quite open-minded and embraced cultural exchange. Take the Minoans and Egyptians as one example.
This is amazing! Thank you :)
Thank you! Well done, engaged, intelligent narrative and respectfully calming music - thank you! Subscribed and looking forward to more.
That makes me smile to read as I sail across the Aegean Sea on my way to Santorini island 🐚 🌊
Thank you for watching, commenting, and subscribing. It truly means a lot to me.
That was great!
I love this short story... Dionysus next pls. 😆
Glad you enjoyed it! I would love to make one about Dionysus. Noted!
ow!! Thank you, so much, we need this thing for our now. Ancient 📜 stories are a vehicle to have a glimpse of our ancestors beginning in this game of duality life.
Eloquently said! I agree wholeheartedly. I was just thinking about how beautiful it is that ancient knowledge finds a way to survive and grow in the people like us alive today.
Just curious: where are these downvotes coming from? Let me know what you didn't like as this could help me improve your experience. Thanks!
There is no explanation..just like the dictators of the false religions...
Thank you for this beautiful video.
Thank you for this beautiful comment! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷 👋
Wow!!! 💕 I love this so much!
Thanks for watching 🙏 So happy to hear you loved it! 😊
Beautiful Video. The video itself is Art ❤️
Thank you so much. That really means a lot to me! Happy you enjoyed it.
Fantastic... I hope more people discover your videos . . . Truly excellent ... Can you do a video about Dionysos at some point? That would be awesome!
Yes, I hope that too! The channel seems to be growing a lot faster lately. Funny you should request Dionysus because I recently held a poll on CZcams and viewers voted for Apollo just a tiny bit more than Dionysus. The order for the next Greek gods videos will be:
Hestia, Apollo, Dionysus
And before those I have a new Minoan video on the way. Be sure to subscribe if you want to take part in upcoming polls!
Very enjoyable show!
So glad you enjoyed it!
PLEASE DO STORIES ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Good job my second favorite Greek goddess.
Thanks so much! Now I am wondering: who is your first favorite goddess? 😉
Athena my number 1
And the Greeks were also philosophers, so it only stands to reason if even today we would conceptualize a divine being it would be androgynous because it would be everything at once
A beautiful way of putting it!
Wow! ❤️
Awwwww thanks and greetings from Greece 🇬🇷 About to arrive in Santorini!
Sri Maha Lakshmi born from the churning of the ocean of Amrit!
Nice video, so who has Venus in their zodiac sign is "dominated" by the Goddess? Because I am Libra and I have Venus as a Planet in my sign and I was wondering if I am a natural divine beauty like the Goddess ☺️
Great! But you forgot to put the links in the description.
Thanks so much. You’re quick! I didn’t forget. I will certainly add all the links within the next days. I just wanted to get her out into the world. Many thanks for the reminder, too.
@@TinyEpics You’re welcome! Keep up the good work, your videos are excellent and always have beautiful images.
That make me super happy to hear! I’ll notify you here by the way once the links to all the images are up.
I started adding the links to all the images. Will finish it all up tonight 😇
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Romans had no imaginations. They had no gods of their own, when they conquered Greece, they replaced the names of all the gods, but kept the bios.
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Pain and beauty is sealed with love…..life in its innermost meaning is transcendental
What exquisite words! Many thanks to you from Greece 🇬🇷
@@TinyEpics love ❤️ from Malaysia!
Wow..
It's the first...
Twinnies 🎊🧲💙❤️
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Happy you made it here! A warm welcome to the channel 😊
I've never heard of a male Aphrodites.... PLz post me a link that I can read it
Yes, he is called Aphroditus! You can learn more here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphroditus
@@TinyEpics Ohh the Hermaphroditos .... ok!
I never Thought that Billie Eilish was actually Aphrodite
Interesting. How do you mean?
@@TinyEpics
Imagine Billie Eilish in A Blonde Hair
And Act Like A Normal.
That's Her
تغنو سال گذشته رانت. ایل ه قفلااز
ناااات توجه.خننصببتتتت تخم اا
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura
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