sadfishing:‘There’s also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that’s bearded, shaped and d
sadfishing:‘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.“(Source: Macrobius, 400 AD “Saturnalia”) -- source link
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