Epiklesy Aphrodite

   In places worship of Aphrodite was epiklesy (epithets):

      Venus, - from the island of Cyprus, where Aphrodite first came ashore. Epithet of Aphrodite.

      Kiprogeniya - the same. Epithet of Aphrodite.

      Pafiya, Pafiyka, Paphos goddess - from the city of Paphos in Cyprus, where the temple common for value.

      Kifereya (Tsitereya) - born near the island Kiefer, another center of worship, as initially stuck to the Kiefer, before being born in Cyprus;

      Idalia (Idaliyka) - from the city and the mountain Idalion Idalia in Cyprus, where Aphrodite was worshiped as the chief deity;

      Amafusiya (Amatuziya) - from the city Amafunt in Cyprus, the center of worship of the goddess;

      Akidaliya - from Boeotian source. Also the name of a certain character.

      Erikin. (Latin Eritsina.) Epithet of Aphrodite. Her sanctuary was not only in Sicily but in Psofide (Arcadia).

   Communication with the sea is reflected in the birth epiklesah:

      Afrogeneyya (penorozhdennaya ").

      Anadyomene (emerge) - appeared on the surface of the sea;

      Evpleya (Evployya) (epithet of Aphrodite as patron of navigation.)

      Pontius (Maritime).

   In epiklesah

      Melanida (black, dark),

      Scotia (dark, gloomy)

      Androfonos (destroyer of men) and, in contrast,

      May Sosandra (saves people)

      Epitimbiya (funeral)

      Muheya - the goddess of secret places

   Options provider of love and passion are reflected in the instigator epiklesah:

      Dole (cheat)

      Morfa (giving beauty),

      Anfeya (flowering)

      Peyto (persuasive, the deceiver)

      Hetero - Protecting hetaerae,

      Porn - patroness of unbridled passion

      Dartsetos - Protecting idle laziness,

      Divarisatriks and

      Peribaziya (corrector committed sexual act)

      Kallipiga (prekrasnozadaya)

      Kastniya (Kastnietida) - patron of shamelessness. Only this goddess takes the sacrifice of pigs.

   As well as two hypostasis of the goddess associated with the Greek philosophical categories:

      Aphrodite-Pandemos. Worship it introduced Theseus. Statue of Skopas in Elis.

      Aphrodite-Urania. She was first worshiped the Assyrians, the Athenians put him Aegeus. For some, the eldest of Moira. Aphrodite Urania as the mother Ananke devoted LV Orphic hymn. Supposed to translate Meleket Aschamain "Queen of Heaven", the nickname of Astarte in Ezekiel. Her temple was erected in Kiefer Phoenicians.