Goddess Aphrodite head, vases, Sicilian artisan ceramics, Design, home decoration, artistic vase, dark brown head, mermaid

Head Gods and Myths and Legends,
Goddess Aphrodite large h38 l26 p26

It was entirely handmade in shape and colour, a modern technique was used for decoration which allowed us to obtain very particular colours,
I guarantee that photos cannot capture its shapes and beautiful colors,
this is ceramic this is art.

And a large head that deserves a place in sight that highlights its particularity

in itself already an element of very high artistic value which can still be enhanced by a plant placed inside
because it too, like the other heads, is empty inside.

Myth

The myth of Aphrodite: the goddess of beauty and love

Ἀφροδίτη in Greek, Aphrodite was, in Greek religion and mythology, the goddess of beauty, but also of fertility, love and procreation. According to some, it is a cult of oriental derivation, for others it is of Phoenician derivation. In any case, she was Hellenized by Homer in the Odyssey, a poem in which it is written that she is originally from Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. The goddess Aphrodite was one of the most important and venerated goddesses in the Greek pantheon, many temples, cults and religious celebrations were dedicated to her. In the poems and in the various versions of the myths, she often presents herself as a jealous, passionate goddess, aware of her own beauty, sensual and prone to anger and revenge, especially towards those who claim to snatch her lovers from her, or even just to want to share them.
The goddess, who the Romans renamed Venus, was according to Homer the daughter of Zeus and the nymph Dione, daughter in turn of Uranus and Gaea. According to Hesiod, however, the goddess was born from the foam of the sea fertilized by the genitals of Uranus, who Cronus had emasculated in his rebellion. The image of the birth of the goddess in a spring environment, where nature blossoms and everything flourishes and is reborn together with the arrival of the goddess, seen as a bringer of fertility, is present in many works, including De Rerum Natura by the Latin poet Titus Lucrezio Caro, as well as in Botticelli's famous painting, the Birth of Venus. In the depictions, in fact, the nature that surrounds her is lush and pure, uncontaminated and perfect, while the goddess has a beauty that only the most beautiful of the goddesses could have: an ethereal face, long blonde curls that run along her entire back, and an expression of seraphic and celestial sweetness. Many plants were sacred to Aphrodite, such as the rose, myrtle and the poppy, and various animals, such as the hare, the dove, the dolphin, the swan and the sparrow (as regards the latter, it is obligatory to mention the 'Ode to Aphrodite by Sappho, an invocation similar to a religious hymn, in which the goddess descends to earth on a winged chariot pulled by sparrows and other birds, to alleviate the love sufferings of the poetess of Lesbos).
In the Homeric poems the presence of Aphrodite is often highlighted. In the Iliad, he has the role of defending his son Aeneas, a Trojan, fathered with Anchises (Priam's cousin). Therefore, in the war, he is on the side of the Trojans. However, it also highlights the fact that she is not at all dedicated to war: in fact in battle, while trying to protect her son, she is wounded by the fearsome Greek hero Diomedes, and although she is then treated by the doctor of the gods, Peon, Zeus for this he scolds her. Even before the start of the Trojan War, however, her role in the myth of the judgment of Paris must be mentioned: in fact it was she who was chosen as the most beautiful goddess, in competition with Hera and Athena. In exchange, Aphrodite gave Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen, wife of Atreus Menelaus; furthermore in the third book of the Iliad the goddess protects not only her son but also Paris. In the Odyssey, however, she is presented as the wife of the deformed god Hephaestus, and lover of Ares, with whom she is caught in the act by her husband.
The cult of Aphrodite was considered very seriously: she was celebrated with periodic festivals, as Plutarch tells us, furthermore the goddess was also celebrated in the festivals in honor of Poseidon. Among the numerous epithets and titles referring to the goddess, we mention the most common: Cypris, or Ciprigna, in reference to the Hesiod myth of her birth; Ambologera (“who never grows old”), Citerèa, Virgo, Aurea, Celeste, Lady. There are also countless lovers, and the corresponding children of Aphrodite. The most relevant are: Adonis, from whom he had Priapus, Anchises, from whom he had Aeneas, Ares, from whom he had Eros, Deimos, Anteros and Phobos, then Dionysus, from whom he had Charites, Hermes, from whom he had Eunomia, Poseidon, from from whom he had Rhodos, and Pygmalion, from whom he had Paphos.