| If you know even a little about Cyprus or Greek | | | | the ultimate embodiment of female beauty |
| mythology the chances are you will have heard of | | | | anyway. Amongst her many lovers (she was a |
| the Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture | | | | bit of a girl) were Gods but she also took mortal |
| Athrodite. Legend tells that she was the result of | | | | lovers too the most famous being Adonis. |
| the castration of the God Uranus which was | | | | Some of her Sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios |
| carried out by his son Cronus (perhaps it was the | | | | and Aeneas through her union with her Trojan |
| way those Gods raised their kids) with a sickle. | | | | lover Anchisess. What can I say? It's a typical |
| Owch! Anyway Cronus threw the severed | | | | story of a beautiful woman wreaking havoc |
| genitals into the sea where they foamed up which | | | | amongst the male population, causing wars and |
| in turn gave birth to Aphrodite. The word "athros" | | | | several spoilt dinners to boot. Her festival was |
| or sea foam giving rise to the translation | | | | Aphrodisiac (now you know where that comes |
| Athrodite or deity of foam. | | | | from) which was celerbrated in several places in |
| Anyways, Cyprus comes into the picture because | | | | Greece including Athens and Corinth. Her |
| Aphrodite was carried by the sea and came | | | | priestesses where not prostitutes but sexual |
| ashore on the Island and some legends claim she | | | | intercourse with them was considered a form of |
| rode on a giant clam shell. In fact some Greek | | | | worship to the Goddess herself. |
| mythology refer to her as Cytherea or Kypros | | | | There you go then, now you can impress all your |
| for this very reason. | | | | friends or even fellow tourist with your factual |
| Zeus (the top God) was worried that the other | | | | knowledge of Aphrodite. When you visit Cyprus |
| Gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in | | | | be sure to take a trip out to her alleged birth |
| marriage so he took the liberty of marring her of | | | | place a few kilometers outside of Paphos. The |
| to Hephaestus the smith God. Boy was he | | | | view from the cliffs is indeed spectacular and |
| knocked out? Scruffy old black smith weds | | | | there is a resturant bar with a great view point |
| Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture! Had | | | | where you can relax with a cool drink. You will |
| his boat come in or what? | | | | see the "rock of Aphrodite" itself just off the |
| Hephaestus was over the moon and as a sign of | | | | coast. |
| his love for Aphrodite he used all his skills as a | | | | The local legend states that if you swim around |
| smith to fashion her a beautiful bejeweled girdle | | | | the rock at midnight during the full moon |
| with fine gold filigree. He even wove magic into | | | | Aphrodite will make you ten years younger if the |
| the gold filigree which was a big mistake on his | | | | exercise doesn't kill you off first that is. Enjoy |
| part. The problem was that when ever Aphrodite | | | | Cyprus and don't forget to visit the rock of |
| wore the girdle she would become sexually | | | | Aphrodite. |
| irresistible bearing in mind that she was already | | | | |