Mastodawn

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Jan 9

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Jan 2

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Dec 26

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Dec 19

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/

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Dec 12

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Nov 14

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

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Erotic Mythology 🌹Nov 7

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

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