Venus

Role: goddess of love · First appears: Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 2

Younger Edda · Foreword · Part 2

with Saturn (Saturn's severed members were believed to have given rise to Venus; creation.) “And although Saturn had given the realm of heaven to Jupiter, the latter nevertheless desired to possess the realm of the earth, and so he harried his father’s kingdom, and it is said that he had him taken and emasculated, and for such great achievements he declared himself to be god, and the Macedonians say that he had the members taken and cast into the sea, and therefore they believed for ages that therefrom had come a woman; her they called Venus, and numbered among the gods, and she has in all ages since been called goddess of love, for they believed she was able to turn the hearts of all men and women to love.”

Extracted from the original text of The Eddas. Made with Rho MD.