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Athene and Aphrodite
Athene and Aphrodite. (c) Rita Shumaker. All rights reserved. No part of this image may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the artist.

Athene and Aphrodite are two impersonal archetypal powers that engender relationship. Athene, Goddess of wisdom, war, and the Arts and Crafts, protects in service of culture and community; the other, Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, initiates in the realm of erotic desire and is in service to the species.


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