Aphrodite Is Spiteful, Shes Mean And Evil!!

“aphrodite is spiteful, she’s mean and evil!!”

let me tell you about aphrodite.

aphrodite is the reason i eat everyday. aphrodite checks to make sure i ate if she hasn’t heard me say my mealtime prayer to her. aphrodite is the reason i’m being gentler with myself and why i keep choosing recovery. she’s the voice in everyone’s head that says “no, maybe i didn’t deserve that.” she is the courage that makes women stand up to arrogant men and say “you’re wrong and i’m going to tell you why.” she is love. in all of its forms. she’s the fire that makes mothers go to war for their children, the connectedness of a friend group, and the sparkle in a lovers eye that makes you fall in love all over again. aphrodite is a wife, lover, friend, mother, sibling and protector. she is in all of us. she is with us, and we are with her.

and i’m so sorry that you fell for the violent misogyny, but guess what? it affects her too. you don’t think she’s been misrepresented and slandered? you don’t think people lie about her, drag her name through the mud?

people treat aphrodite the way they treat modern day women.

conform with everyone else’s bigotry if you want, but i for one (1), will love aphrodite as long as my heart will let me, and sing her praises until my lungs give out.

khaire golden aphrodite ✨💗🕊

hey uh is that server still active?

my friend (a queer muslim) was curious about it, and wanted to know :) they also asked how many of you there are! <3

Hello! Yea the server is still active! Tell them that they are free to join! Also I’m guessing that you mean how many members? About ~44 members so far!!

Thank you and your friend for your consideration :)

⚧️ The Gods & Gender ⚧️

Discussing Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminism and the views of the Gods is not "speaking for the Gods,"—it is looking at facts and information and drawing completely reasonable conclusions that squarely put the foundations of trans-exclusion in opposition to the Gods.

(definitely not audio proof read, sorry for the dyslexia)

🌿Aphrodite & Venus🌿

Aphroditos (or Aphroditus) is Aphrodite with male characteristics including a penis and/or beard.

A cult of Aphrodite included a bearded Aphrodite at Amathus, Cyprus on a high cliff temple. [Wikipedia citing Macrobius, Saturnalia III]

Her relationship with bisexuality (referring to being dual sex not sexual orientation in this paper), androgyny, and transvestism is also documented in Cyprus:

— Aphrodite in the Theogony by William Sale in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association Vol. 92 X

(Sorry for the shitty screenshot JSTOR did not want to work with me)

This worship of Aphrodite with a penis was also seen as equal to Venus:

There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus, and Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female." — Macrobius (c. 400s AD), Saturnalia 3.8.2

🌿Hermaphroditus🌿

There is also the "intersex child of Aphrodite & Hermes" named Hermaphroditus.

I have seen many use Hermaphtoditus as an excuse to wipe away the Goddess Aphrodite with a penis that the ancients worshipped. Which doesn't even make sense because I hate to break it to you— Hemaphroditus also opposes TERF ideology by its nature. A God existing as bisexed/dual-sex/bigender (however you'd like to word it) negates the idea that the Gods somehow support the ridged biological essentialism and gender binary that TERF ideology necessitates.

There are different accounts of Hermaphtoditus' creation but one, Ovids, tells of him merging with a nymph and then asking his parents to make the water transformative causing men to have thr effeminate bodies like women:

Her prayer found gods to hear; both bodies merged in one, both blended in one form and face. As when a gardener sets a graft and sees growth seal the join and both mature together, thus, when in the fast embrace their limbs were knit, they two were two no more, nor man, nor woman--one body then that neither seemed and both. So when he saw the waters of the pool, where he had dived a man, had rendered him half woman and his limbs now weak and soft, raising his hands, Hermaphroditus cried, his voice unmanned, ‘Dear father [Hermes] and dear mother [Aphrodite], both of whose names I bear, grant me, your child, that whoso in these waters bathes a man emerge half woman, weakened instantly.’ Both parents hears; both, moved to gratify their bi-sexed son, his purpose to ensure, drugged the bright water with that power impure." — Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 28 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)

🌿More on Aphroditos vs Hermaphroditus read @theoi-crow's excellent post about them here.

Also some lovely statues:

Marble copy statue from a fresco at Herculaneum, Italy. X (left)

Statue from Pergamum, Turkey. X (center)

Statue from Nymph Sanctuary in Lacori, Italy X (right)

Statue from Pompeii, Italy X

🌿Inana & Ishtar🌿

From a hymn to Inana

To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a companion for the weak, are yours, Inana. To keep paths and ways in good order, to shatter earth and to make it firm are yours, Inana. To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inana. To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana. Desirability and arousal, goods and property are yours, Inana. Gain, profit, great wealth and greater wealth are yours, Inana. Gaining wealth and having success in wealth, financial loss and reduced wealth are yours, Inana. Observation (1 ms. has instead: Everything), choice, offering, inspection and approval are yours, Inana. Assigning virility, dignity, guardian angels, protective deities and cult centres are yours, Inana. — A Hymn to Inana (Inana-C) ETCSL 4.07.3 in Lines 115-131.

This shows:

Inana has the power to change a person's gender/sex .... which means people can change gender/sex

This is listed among other normal things such as journeys, wealth, settlements so on. Suggesting that it wasn't super special, it was a part of Sumerian society that Inana was given power over.

This was written by Enheduanna High Priestess of Nanna, Ur's city God, and Inana. Inana was a popular Sumerian deity and Enhenduanna's father, Sargon of Akkad's, personal deity was Ištar. One of Enhenduanna's goals as a priestess was to conflate the popular Sumerian deity Inana with her father's Akkadian personal Goddess Ištar. Then raise Inana (and thus her father's personal Goddess Ištar) to an extremely high place in cosmology and explain just how much control she had in society— including over sex/gender.

Also from @sisterofiris's post on Inana's queer priests here.

🌿Nanaya🌿

In later times Inana/Ištar was equated with Nanaya but in earlier times they were worshipped side by side as separate deities. While Inana's hymn gives her rule of gender, a Nanaya hymn has her directly declaring she has breasts in Dadumu and a beard in Babylon. Leick also mentions here that Ištar was worshipped in both genders.

—Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Gwendolyn Leick. Page 125.

🌿Asūšunamir with Ereškigal🌿

In Ištar's Descent (not Inana's) Ea's plan to distract Ereškigal and get her to bring Inana back to life is to make a beautiful being. Ea makes an incredibly beautifully brilliant being that's mere aesthetic presence will make Ereškigal happy and let her defenses down. And Asūšunamir's beauty works..... and he is an eunuch, an effeminate male, potentially queer from the ancient's eyes. And yet he is so beautiful he distracts a Goddess.

— The Ancient Near East and Anyhology of Texts and Pictures, edited by Pritchard. Ishtar Descent translation by E.A Speiser. Page 80.

🌿Eštan / Ištanu🌿

The Anatolians (Hittite in particular) loved to both mix deities and keep them entirely dependent like 8 solar deities and 50 storm Gods. But sometimes Hittite, Hurrian, Hattic, Indo-European, Mesopotamian all meld together making the identification of gender ambiguous or even interchangeable.

Eštan is one example (who has numerous equatings):

—A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of The Ancient Near East by Frayne & Stuckey. Page 105

You can also learn more about the Ištanu and the Sun Goddess of Arinna and her gender from @sisterofiris in a post here.

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I'm sure there are more! But this was my quick round up and sources I could put together. To all the trans & non-binary polytheists out there, you aren't abnormal and the Gods see you for who you truly are.

Edit: Want some more? Learn about the feminine qualities of Apollo

Hello ! Todays post is on how my deities show love to me! (I guess that’s the best title for this) So I guess this an follow up to my last post I did post I did on this certain topic (link if you wanna see it) because I want to show different ways it might happen! Despite not being human, I swear our deities actually do love us (also spirit guides since Dio is one of my guides and they also often do stuff like this haha)

To get on perspective on my relationships with my deities, I have been worshiping Lord Dionysus (who’s actually gonna kinda be the main focus 😳) for over a year now. And lord ares and lady Aphrodite for 11 months (a year in October for both) so I would say that were pretty close,, I’m particularly close with Lady Aphrodite as (somewhat) unsurprisingly, she is the most affectionate and loving towards to me. She often reminds me that she’s here for me and that she loves me and all,,, which is very nice 😭

What really sparked this post was something that happened a couple days ago. So yknow I’m trying to get better at taking care of myself and doing things for my higher good (as we all should be doing) and I’m currently sick and I have been for the past few days. I also just got back from a trip and I had school work to do but while I was going it I decided stop because A. It was getting late, B. like I said, I just got back from a trip and I was tired, and C. I’m sick and it’s not good to work when you’re sick anyways 😭 When I closed my computer to go lay down and rest, I also said “Ideserve to rest” (i just talk out loud a lot when I’m by myself lol) and immediately got (the best way to describe it) a thumbs up (basically) from Lord Dionysus ! It made me feel very good about myself! Though I don’t need my deities, guides, or anyone really to back up my decisions for me to do them, it still feels very nice,,, plus it helps me know that I’m going in the right direction !

Thanks for reading! If you have any experiences you want to share that go ahead! Whatever makes you happy :)

Imagine worshipping Aphrodite while being a terf. That’s embarrassing.

Hello hello! I’ve officially started worshiping a new deity,,, one of the most popular deities to worship… Apollo,,, I honestly should’ve saw this coming 😭

Anyway, this post is about how I see Apollo :) I see him in a very typical way. I see him with long blond hair and looking very youthful,,, I see him with more tan skin and with brown eyes. Ofc with pictures via picrew :)