VENUS

The second planet of the solar system that owes his name to the divinity Venus, Aphrodite in the Greek mythology. His orbit is an ellipse and is the smallest third planet as for size refers. In addition, it possesses a dense atmosphere consisted of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Unlike other planets, he lacks satellites.

The legend of Venus

Venus was in the habit of associating with the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Etruscan Turan, taking aspects borrowed both. The previous Etruscan goddess of the vegetation and the gardens it happened to be related deliberately to the Greek Aphrodite.
In some Latin myths Eros (god of the love) he was son of Venus and Mars, the god of the war. Venus was an important Roman goddess related principally to the love, the beauty and the fertility, which was playing a role crucially in many holidays and religious Roman myths. Also it was considered to be like protective of the marriage and divinity of the fecundity.
Venus turned into the wife of Vulcano.y according to the Greek mythology, was born of the foam of the sea, (in Greek "Aphròs") near Cyprus, when Saturn him cut the genital organs to Uranus. The epic poetry reports that Aphrodite, supported loving relations with the hero Anquises, of which there was born Eneas, the great protagonist of the Eneida, work written by Virgil in the 1st century B.C.
After a long period of oblivion in the Middle Ages, Venus's figure returned with summit. The Renaissance attracted by the topics of the beauty, the love and the pleasure of the senses, saw in her his favorite image and used it as symbol for everything.



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