She was adored and pampered like a deity, but her worship took praise away from the goddesses which they disliked.Īphrodite got a bit jelly at all of the attention that Psyche was receiving, and after Psyche fell in love with Aphrodite’s son Eros, Aphrodite set Psyche some pretty bitchy tasks to complete if she ever wanted to be with her son. Psyche’s two sisters were both very lovely looking, but nothing compared to the stunning beauty of Psyche, and people would travel from nearby villagers to worship her exceptional beauty. Psyche had not been born a goddess but actually a mortal princess and daughter of a wealthy King. It’s hardly surprising with all those kids running about Mt. Although she always looked beautiful with jewellery and a pretty smile, she remained a bit of a weak, basic goddess according to the Iliad. She had relationships with Ares, Poseidon, Adonis and Dionysus (despite already being hitched to Hephaestus- awkward) and had a shed load of kids between the various gods. Now, Aphrodite as one of the original goddesses of beauty and love was by all accounts a total hottie, so it’s no surprise really that she put it about a bit on Mount Olympus. Hell of a conception story if you ask me. Stories actually conflict on her birth but the consensus seems to suggest that she appeared when the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus and threw his dangly bits into the ocean- from it arose a beautiful foam, and from that emerged a fully formed, sexy Aphrodite.
Sounds very Angelina circa 1999 if you ask me.Īphrodite is probably one of the most familiar of the goddesses, but in my opinion, with the oddest back story. She was often depicted as an extreme beauty, dressed in black with a dark halo, emerging from her sexy lair Tartarus in the depths of the underworld. Nyx had many children- all of which embody something gloominous connected to the night, such as Hypnos (the personification of sleep), Moros (god of impending doom) or Nemesis (goddess of retribution). She brings the darkness, and all the dirty secrets hiding in the shadows such as dreams, sexual pleasures and death. Since Nyx depicted the literal concept of night, she is seen as a catalyst to our darkest desires and actions. She happened to be so powerful that Homer himself called her the ‘subduer of gods and men’, and even big baller Zeus got spooked by the awesome power of Nyx. Said to be the first entity born of original Chaos, Nyx was regarded as one of, if not the most beautiful primordial deity to have ever reigned.
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