Aphrodite, the super attractive goddess of love and beauty
The girl who was born from the sea
Cronus slashed at Uranus (Father heaven) Golden Ichor, the (Blood of the gods) poured onto the floor. Uranus shrieked in pain. Then it was all over, Uranus was dead.
Of course, gods and goddesses are immortal, but Cronus (Uranus’s son) cut Uranus into pieces until only his spirit remained.
No, Uranus wouldn’t reform any time soon.
Uranus’s blood splashed onto the earth giving life to powerful beings.
The the last drop of Uranus’s blood splashed into the sea.
The powerful liquid bubbled, and born from the sea foam was a beautiful goddess. The most beautiful in fact. Her name was Aphrodite.
She lifted her face to the heavens, (What was left of Uranus) Then she made her way to Mount Olympus.
When she arrived, there was quite a bit of commotion. The goddess was so beautiful, that all the gods started falling for her, they started to fight. Soon the goddesses grew jealous of her beauty and the fact that she was stealing their boyfriends and immortal husbands.
Hera (goddess of marriage) Was especially angered. She was married to the king of the gods Zeus, and here he was flirting with this “New” goddess.
Then, she came up with a plan to keep Zeus loyal and stop all the fighting. Hera’s son, Hephaestus (god of metalwork) was standing not far away.
He had no chance of winning the lovely Aphrodite. He was so ugly that when Hera gave birth to him, she threw him off of Mount Olympus. He was Aphrodite’s exact opposite.
Hera smirked, she was the queen of the gods, she was in charge.
“I have an idea to stop all this foolish fighting”. Announced Hera, “The lovely Aphrodite will marry my son, Hephaestus so that none of you will be jealous, for nobody can be jealous of Hephaestus”.
The gods agreed, it was impossible to be jealous of the god of metalwork. Aphrodite was horrified, but that didn’t matter, she was soon married to Hephaestus. Rather unhappily I might add. Hephaestus gave her an ugly grin.
Aphrodite shrieked, she had seen more handsome blowfish! “Hey”. Crooked Hephaestus. The other gods and goddesses started to laugh. Aphrodite did NOT want to be the laughing stock of Olympus.
Soon she was taken to Hephaestus’s godly palace. Of course, it was not fancy, I mean he was the good of metalwork after all. It was basically a scrapyard.
Everyday Hephaestus would leave his palace to go do some metalwork. He would be gone for hours. Soon, Ares began to regain interest in Aphrodite. He visited her while Hephaestus was away without Hephaestus’s knowledge.
One day, Helios (god of the sun) was flying over Hephaestus’s palace and just happened to see Ares and Aphrodite holding hands through the kitchen window.
Helios was Hephaestus’s friend so, he decided to tell Hephaestus of this great insult. Hephaestus was furious, but he could not do anything after all Ares was the god of war, and Hephaestus was the crippled god of metalwork.
Then Hephaestus came up with an idea, a brilliant idea. He got to work immediately. When he was done he sighed, feeling sort of reluctant.
Later that day, as always Ares meet up with Aphrodite, They sat on Hephaestus sofa and started talking when Hephaestus dropped an impenetrable net on them! They were stuck fast.
Hephaestus called all the other gods and goddess to come to watch, and Ares and Aphrodite were made the laughing stock of Olympus. After that Aphrodite left Hephaestus for Ares and Hephaestus continued his work he was no longer bothered that Aphrodite was not his wife, he didn’t need a wife like that after all.
Aphrodite’s Roman name is Venus. Hephaestus’s Roman name is Vulcan. Ares Roman name is Mars.
