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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 4749320, member: 91461&quot;]Oh, how it must&#039;ve felt to beautiful, perpetually in blume, Aphrodite</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159969[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and be chosen as the most beautiful godess over the queen godess, Hera, and your warrior godess sister, Athena, by pretty boy Paris at his trial. Would she have felt elation, self satisfaction or was her luscious superiority just as obvious as the face on Cleopatra VII&#039;s nose?</p><p>But, of course, she was the godess of beauty, love and sexual passion. Aaand she did sweeten the pot by offering Paris the most beautiful mortal alive in Hellen of Troy.</p><p>Before all of the stories of the trial of Paris, the cults or her cuckold of her husband Hephaestus, God of blacksmiths, with Ares, The God of war (and with as notorious as Aphrodite was he was possibly then after God of war(ts)<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> as well) she needed a birth sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159940[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>She has several origin stories so I&#039;ll stick to the most popular (even though in the Illiad, which you think would be the definitive on the subject, she was named as Zeus&#039;s daughter with a Titaness, Dione).</p><p>Aphros, the root of her name means &quot;of the foam&quot;. This is due to the fact that, much like how Zeus would kill his father Cronus, Cronus would commit an atrocity upon his overbearing father Uranus.</p><p>In Hesiod&#039;s Theogony, Uranus was the God of the sky or Heaven who came(<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) to Gaia (Earth) each night to mate with her. Seems like a good enough bloke<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. But hated the 6 children (the Titans) he had with her so much that he damned the youngest to Tartarus (Hell)!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This hurt Gaia so greatly that she asked her sons to do something to their own father with a sickle she made...a momentary warning: This ain&#039;t Disney. This is ancient Greek mythology.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159939[/ATTACH]</p><p>(when I was a kid this meant the album was must listen to content)</p><p><br /></p><p>What she&#039;d asked her sons to do to Uranus... castration!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie39" alt=":cyclops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Her youngest son, Cronus,&nbsp; was the only one brave/crazy enough to take up mother Earth&#039;s cause.</p><p>Welp, as you can guess, sickle met pickle<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie53" alt=":hungover:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159978[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Ok, ok. It was his coin purse. Though, sickle met testicles is only slightly less funny)</p><p><br /></p><p>Cronus would throw his father&#039;s severed genitals into the ocean causing it to bubble up with white foam! (If there is one thing that would stop all these crazy people from spreading Covid by congregating in mass at the beach I think it would be having the ocean turn into a giant cauldron of sperm!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>And so, of this cauldron Aphrodite was born.</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1159943[/ATTACH]</p><p>Man O man, nobody tells wilder tales then those ancient Greeks... but they also did pretty good with coins too. As did their less creative conquerors, the Roman&#039;s who would steal the stories and change her name to Venus (and in keeping with their prude nature, the Roman&#039;s would clean up her stories).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159982[/ATTACH]</p><p>MACEDON, Uranopolis</p><p>Circa 300 BC. Æ 15mm (3.27 gm). Eight pointed star / OURANIDW-[P]OLEWS, Aphrodite Urania seated left on globe, holding sceptre in right hand. SNG ANS 914ff; BMC Macedonia pg. 134, 2ff; SNG Copenhagen 455ff; Laffaille -. Nearly VF, dark greenish brown patina</p><p>Ex: Savoca</p><p>The name of this city and types depicted on this coin refer to Uranos, the divine personification of the sky and scarcely known in cult. From Hesiod (Theogony 126ff.) we know he was produced by Gaia, became her consort, but hating her children he caused them to remain confined within her. Gaia in revenge instigated his castration by their son Cronos and cast his severed genitals into the sea which engendered Aphrodite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar would famously claim that Venus was his great great great great great great... grandmother</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159989[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julius Caesar</p><p>Denarius fouree, Africa, 47-46 BCE. AR 2.8 g. 18mm, Diademed head of Venus r. Rev. CAESAR Aeneas running l., carrying his father Anchises on his l. shoulder, holding palladium on his outstretched r. hand. This coin represents Caesar’s war coinage for the protracted campaign against the Pompians in Africa culminating in the battle of Thapsus.Cr. 458/1. Syd. 1013.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159986[/ATTACH]</p><p>L. Iulius Lf Caesar</p><p>AR Denarius (16 mm, 3.96 g), Rome, 103 BC.</p><p>Obv. Helmeted head of Mars to left; above visor, ·F· and behind, CAESAR.</p><p>Rev. Venus in biga of Cupids to left; above, ·F· and below, lyre; in exergue, L·IVLI·L·F.</p><p>Syd. 593; Craw. 320/1.</p><p>Ex: Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159987[/ATTACH]</p><p>Creperius, Rocus</p><p>Denarius. 68 BC. Uncertain mint. (Ffc-657). (Craw-399-1b). (Cal-522). Obv: Bust of the back of the Sea Goddess (possibly Venus whom was also known as godess of the sea for obvious reasons) to the right, C to the right, to the left crab. Rev .: Neptune with trident, in biga pulled by hippocampi to the right, below Q CREPER M (F) / ROCVS. Ag. 3.61 g. Usually struck off center. Very scarce. VF.</p><p>Ex: Tauler &amp; Fau</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Off of the album Birth of Cool:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]1X6h2TxA18c[/MEDIA]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159945[/ATTACH]</p><p>And if you missed my first &quot;Birth of &quot; thread and want to find out how Athena was born:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/birth-of-a-battlefield-godess-athena.363952/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/birth-of-a-battlefield-godess-athena.363952/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/birth-of-a-battlefield-godess-athena.363952/</a></p><p>And if you enjoy these stories then please make sure to sponsor Coin Talk<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So please post all your coins that have to do with Aphrodite/Venus sexuality, beauty or whatever foams your ocean<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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