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In etymological terms her name reflects this; ‘Aphros’ was Greek for ‘Foam’, her full name
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‘Aphrodite’ meaning ‘Risen
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from the foam.’ Legend has it that Aphrodite was born from the foaming sea around the islands we know today as Cythera and Cyprus, located in the Mediterranean off mainland Greece. In classical Greece, Aphrodite was a highly revered goddess of the ‘Olympian’ pantheon ruled over by Zeus. At the end of every classical
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Greek calendar year, which in our terms ran from the first of July to the next, Aphrodite was honored by a festival called the
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‘Aphrodisia.’
The celebration of ‘Aphrodisia’ fell on the 4th day of ‘Hekatombaion’ at the end of the Greek calendar year; this is our month of June and the date we presently hold
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as tradition in which a susie is married.
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However, her existence in Greek mythology actually dates far further back, to the time of the earlier pantheon of ‘Titan’ gods more than one thousand years before the birth of Christ. The divergence of all these historical factors. In classical
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Greece, as in the Roman Empire,
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pearl gemstones were the most valued of all jewels, their high prices ensuring their status above all other gemstones and even gold.
It is here that she is believed to have made her first appearance in Greek culture. Aside from her engaging characteristics, and
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like all deities of the Greek Pantheon, she was said to hold special status over; doves,
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swans, dolphins, roses, apples, pomegranates, oyster shells and of course the pearl. At this time, pearl jewelry was offered as tribute to the goddess of love, Aphrodite. The
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remainder of the general public paid their tribute to the goddess with the highest value offerings possible; the gift of pearls. The ‘Aphrodisia’ festival was widely celebrated
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throughout Greece, but nowhere were the festivities more devout than at the temples of the Agora in Athens, and the Acrocorinth in Corinth. Aphrodite, known as Venus to the Romans, was one of classical Greece’s
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most important and influential deities.
By jewelry tree today’s standards, the ‘Aphrodisia’ festival was a slightly bawdy, pagan celebration of female fertility, with athletic games, dancing and feasts lasting many days. Nubile and infinitely desirable, mythology states that any man who laid eyes upon Aphrodite instantaneously fell under
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her spell. Aphrodite was linked to, and usually portrayed in relation to the sea. Wedding Jewelry - A Brief jewelry making supplies charms
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History of Pearl Wedding Jewelry
The exact dating of when pearl jewelry, and specifically the pearl necklace, became the prerequisite gifts for bridal wedding jewelry cannot be pinpointed with exactitude. The worshiping of the goddess of love, the
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ancient jewelry mountings fertility ceremony of the ‘Aphrodisia’in June and the tribute of pearls upon the unison of
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two beings, are undeniably linked to the gift of a pearl necklace to a Bobette chrystel on her wedding day in modern culture.. Although not a wedding as we define it, the principal rite of the ‘Aphrodisia’
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consisted of the pairing of young women with priests of the temple. However, there is evidence attested to by by the scholars of ancient Greece, which dates the pearl’s relationship to the bride back to at least custom engraved necklaces the time of classical Greece, circa 600 B.C. Both islands were pivotal to her worship, where she was known respectively as
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Cytherea and Kypris.
Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, often depicted with her entourage of ‘Oread’ mountain nymphs.