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Venus was the goddess of love and beauty, and of gardens and spring.
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The names we use today for the planets are Latin god-name equivalents
of the earlier Greek god-names, which the Greeks originally matched
to the god-names of the pioneering stargazers of antiquity, the
Babylonians. Venus is a translation of Aphrodite and in Babylon
Venus was known as Ishtar. Venus was the goddess of love and beauty,
and of gardens and spring. Her cult grew in importance when she
was identified with the Greek goddess, Aphrodite. Venus possessed
an embroidered girdle called Cestus, which had the power to inspire
love. Her favorite birds were doves and swans and she considered
the rose and myrtle to be sacred plants.
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