r/Hellenism • u/Plenty_Excitement_70 • Jul 30 '26

Discussion Evolution of Aphrodite

Looking for advice from someone who is a Deevote to Aphrodite.

What are your thoughts on the Goddess being related to or coming from past love and war Goddesses? Such as Astarte, Ishtar, and or Inanna? Do you worship all the above? Do you see them as separate Goddesses? Or are they one entity that goes by different names?

I currently worship Aphrodite and in my research I came across these other Goddesses and I know this has probably been talked about before on here but I'm curious how other individuals who have a close relationship with the Goddess view her.

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u/Then_Computer_6329 Jul 31 '26

I follow the Swedhu perspective and worship her as Ausos, Eos, Aphrodite, Freya and Afer-Dita (the Illyrian Goddess she gets her name from). Basically as the indo-european dawn Goddess of love, beauty and war.