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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8830001" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Totally off subject, but the Inanna - Ishtar - Astarte - Aphrodite - Venus progression is really fascinating as it's one of the few times in history you can clearly see a deity progress and change as they gain new worshipers and are adopted by new cultures. You can even see when the goddess, originally of love and war, loses the war aspect. When the Phoenician Astarte was adopted by the Greeks as Aphrodite, she was worshiped on Cythera first, which was Spartan territory. The Spartans were fine with her being an aspect of both love and war, and worshiped her as Aphrodite Areia, Aphrodite the Warlike. But the rest of the Greeks were like &quot;Nope, we like our goddesses either sexy or warlike, you can't combine the two.&quot; So while Athena and Artemis could be goddesses with combative sides, they had to be chaste, while Aphrodite, being a goddess with a sexual aspect, had to lose the warlike side for the other Greeks...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 8830001, member: 6801060"] Totally off subject, but the Inanna - Ishtar - Astarte - Aphrodite - Venus progression is really fascinating as it's one of the few times in history you can clearly see a deity progress and change as they gain new worshipers and are adopted by new cultures. You can even see when the goddess, originally of love and war, loses the war aspect. When the Phoenician Astarte was adopted by the Greeks as Aphrodite, she was worshiped on Cythera first, which was Spartan territory. The Spartans were fine with her being an aspect of both love and war, and worshiped her as Aphrodite Areia, Aphrodite the Warlike. But the rest of the Greeks were like "Nope, we like our goddesses either sexy [I]or[/I] warlike, you can't combine the two." So while Athena and Artemis could be goddesses with combative sides, they had to be chaste, while Aphrodite, being a goddess with a sexual aspect, had to lose the warlike side for the other Greeks... [/QUOTE]

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