Cytherea
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Aphrodite
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchAphrodite has numerous equivalents: Inanna (Sumerian counterpart), Astarte (Phoenician), Astghik (Armenian), Turan (Etruscan), and Venus (Roman).Her cult originated in Sumeria as Innana from the 4th millennium BC and was connected with sacred prostitution. She has parallels with Indo-European dawn goddesses such as Ushas or Aurora.She is also linked with the Vedic Laksmi who is said to have arisen from the ocean of milk and she is connected like Aphrodite with the planet Venus. The Hellenes were well aware that her origins lay in the East: according to Pausanias, the first to establish her cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera.
Some scholars connect Aphrodite with the Minoan snake goddess -who is linked with Astarte- an aspect of the Mother Goddess, a theory supported by the myth of Europa, the Phoenecian princess who Zeus transformed into a white bull abducted and carried to Creta.Her cult was transmitted to Cythera and then to Greece.Some ancient sources identify Astarte with Europa.The similar Egyptian snake goddess Wadjet was asocciated with the city known to the Greeks as Aphroditopolis (the city of Aphrodite).
Aphrodite also has many other names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea, Pandemos and Cerigo. These names were used in specific areas of Greece. When the Greek cities combined, these lesser names were abandoned and a single name, Aphrodite, was adopted. Each goddess represented a slightly different religion but with overall similarities.
Etymology
The name Άφροδίτη was connected by folk etymology with ἀφρός ( aphros ) "foam," interpreting it as "risen from the foam" and embodying it in an etiological myth that was already known to Hesiod. Another folk etymology found in the Etymologicum Magnum and attributed to Didymus attempts to etymologize Aphrodite from the Greek compound ἁβροδίαιτος habrodiaitos ("she who lives delicately" from ἁβρός habros + δίαιτα diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a "familiar" characteristic of Greek "obvious from the Macedonians". Aphros has reflexes in Messapic and Etruscan (whence April ), which were probably borrowed from Greek.
Though Herodotus was aware of the Phoenician origins of Aphrodite, linguistic attempts to derive the name Aphrodite from Semitic Aštoret , via undocumented Hittite transmission, remain inconclusive. If Semitic, a not implausible etymology would be from Assyrian barīrītu , a fem