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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday

"Odin and Frigg sat in Hliðskjálf and looked over all the worlds. Odin said: "You see Agnar, your fosterling, how he begets children with a giantess in the cave? But Geirröth, my fosterling, is a king & now rules over his land." Frigg said: "He's so miserly he tortures his guests if he thinks that too many of them come."
Grímnismál

🎨 #Frigg on the Throne by AlessiaHV
https://www.deviantart.com/alessiahv/art/Frigg-on-the-Throne-and-Eir-at-her-side-1135089587

#DayOfAphrodite #indieArt

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday.

"Frigg, I believe,
knows all that happens,
although she says it not."
Freyja in Lokasenna

🏛 Frigg or Valkyrie, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden

#DayOfAphrodite #MedievalArt #Frigg #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful first Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday. May the new year bring love and pleasure into your life 🌹

"There is at hand a good relish, very inviting, and Thasian wine and ointment and fillets. For Kypris [Aphrodite] dwells where plenty is, but among those who are hard up Aphrodite will not stay."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 1.28

🏛 Celestial Venus, Roman sculpture, 2-3rd Century CE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"The one who strengthens someone in pain,
Who comforts a young one in love,
Who makes the dancer beautiful over drinks,
That god has descended to the ground,
Offering a calming lovespell for mortals,
A medicine against grief,
The vine’s child, wine."
Anacreonta 56

🏛 #Aphrodite crowning a Herm of #Dionysos, Myrina 150-100 BCE

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite] and the Horae."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5

🏛 #Aphrodite, Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Praxiteles from #Ostia, Italy

📸 M Harrsch
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/8428695066/in/photostream/

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus

🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4

🏛 Aphrodite riding on a goose, Greek sculpture, 4th century BCE, MFA

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

""Priapos was conceived from Zeus and Aphrodite; but Hera in a jealous rage laid hands by a certain trickery on the belly of Aphrodite and readied a shapeless and ugly and over-meaty babe to be born."
Suidas s.v. Priapos

🏛 #Aphrodite and #Priapus figurine with gold paint polychromy, #Pompeii

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #GreekRomanArt

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth I'm introducing Native American deities 🌎

#Haumea is the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth. She repeatedly transforms herself from an old woman to a young girl using a magic stick and has sex with humans. When her identity is found out, she leaves humanity behind. The trickster god #Kaulu catches her in a net and murders her.

🎨Himani

@mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Iulius #Caesar proclaimed his descent from #Aeneas, son of the goddess #Venus, at the funeral of his aunt (Suetonius Div. Iul. 6). He claimed the goddess' protection in his battle against #Pompey in 48 BCE, who feared that "the family of Caesar, which went back to Venus, was to receive glory and splendour through him" (Pompey 68.2).

@mythology @antiquidons @histodons #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #JuliusCaesar

Have a beautiful #DayOfAphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. The #Ezili or #Erzuli are a pantheon of feminine spirits in #HaitianVodou that are associated with femininity and erotic love. Vodou is a syncretistic religion assimilating traditions of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism. The Ezili are identified with Mary, Mother of Christ, and #Oshun, the #Yoruba #Orisha of love and feminity.

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

I'm planning to spend the rest of my #NewYear's week off work just like Venus-Aphrodite in this #neoclassical painting. What about you?

🏛️ Sleeping #Venus by Giorgione, dated 1510 CE, probably finished by his pupil Titian after his death. Today in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, #Dresden

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfAphrodite #NeoclassicalArt #AncMedReception #Aphrodite

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"And there, my good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."
"The Anacreontic Song", from The Vocal magazine, 1778

🏛️ The alliance between #Bacchus and #Venus. Dated 1750 – 1775 CE. Today in the Rijksmuseum #Amsterdam.

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #NeoclassicalArt #AncMedReception #Dionysos #Aphrodite

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.

🏛️ National Archaeological Museum of Naples

#DayOfAphrodite #Aphrodite #GreekRomanArt #mythology @mythology @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Improve your day by #Aphrodite riding a goose, immortalised on a terracotta disk by an #ancientGreek artist in the 4th century BCE.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #GreekGods #mythology @mythology @antiquidons @histodons #ancientHistory #ancientGreece #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon #GreekRomanArt

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Marble votive relief showing #Aphrodite with her devotees.
Dated to 4th century BCE.

What would you ask of the Goddess of Love?

#DayOfAphrodite #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon @mythology @antiquidons #GreekGods #GreekRomanArt @histodons #HellenicPolytheism #HellenicPaganism

Let's get the hashtag #FannyFriday started on #Mastodon, @antiquidons,
@medievodons & @histodons!

A day all about the vulva in art and history 👌

#Friday is perfect as it was the #DayofAphrodite in #ancientGreece & Rome.

Toot vulva #artefacts & #art, tell vulva #funfacts, or teach us some vulva #history!

Calling #FannyFriday veterans @rogueclassicist @phistorians @Chapps @vagina_museum @roob @emmaaum #AncMed #medieval #ancientRome #RomanBritain

Banner by @Ayhaidebil1 :birdsite:

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

An amazing photo of #Aphrodite in her breast band or #strophion, or in other words: Aphrodite in her bra!
Thank you for sharing, @nessotropheion 💖

https://sunbeam.city/@nessotropheion/101565278373676328

#DayOfAphrodite #Venus #VenusDeity #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #antiquidon #histodon #FashionHistory #FashionHistoryFriday

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

The handheld mirror is an iconic symbol of #Aphrodite that became the stylised symbol of the planet Venus, copper, and the female sex.
Also an early example of the "tits and arse" pose that is so popular for movie posters...

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #histodon #antiquidon #alchemy

https://twitter.com/TheClassicalCo/status/1593001095642562560

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Venus-#Aphrodite Anadyomene (Rising From the Sea) fresco of the goddess wringing out her hair from the House of the Prince of Naples in #Pompeii

#DayOfAphrodite #FrescoFriday #FannyFriday #Mythodon #Mythology #GreekMythology