Adonis, Aphrodite and Hermes?

Question

one of my annoying friends is in relationship and is being extra annoying (she normally just pretends shes greek cause she has an obsession). She's going around calling themselves Adonis and Aphrodite.
Im not an expert in greek mythology, but didnt Aphrodite and Hermes have a child. (hence hermaphrodite). So can someone basically some up- the story of Adonis, Aphrodite and Hermes? So i know what exactly my friend is comparing her and her boyfriend to

Answer 1

The reason your friend is comparing herself and her boyfriend to Aphrodite and Adonis has little to do with their relationship (there are conflicting stories, but in each Aphrodite is said to love Adonis); rather, it's because they were both renowned for their beauty. Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, Adonis the archetypal mortal of beauty.



Yes, Aphrodite and Hermes did have a child together, Hermaphroditos.. But...Aphrodite was said to have had several children with several different men (both god and mortal alike).

Answer 2

Yeah, basically what the first person said. Persephone(Hades' wife) found Adonis but couldn't keep him so she gave him to Aphrodite to take care of and when Persephone wanted Adonis back, Aphrodite said no because she was so in love with him. Then Persephone got revenge by killing Adonis so he would go to the Underworld, keeping Adonis all to herself since Aphrodite couldn't go to the Underworld.

Answer 3

So first....Lucina was the midwife and may have risen him. Venus one day was struck by Cupids arrow on accident and she fall in love with Adonis as he was hunting. She began to hunt with him and she told him never to hunt the bigger animals alone. But one day he did and he died. Venus continued to love him even in the afterlife. I have no idea what your friend is comparing herself and her boyfriend to. I also don't think that Hermes and Aphrodite ever had a kid together but they may have made a human together. They created the perfect woman with the perfect man thus making a Hermaphrodite.

Answer 4

Adonis was "adopted" by Aphrodite, so the fact that your friend is referring to her relationship as Adonis and Aphrodite is rather disturbing. It implies that she looks at her boyfriend as a son.

Answer 5

Adonis was a beautiful human youth Aphrodite loved. She took care of him as a baby and entrusted him to Persephone. Persephone also fell in love with Adonis, and the Goddesses argued over him. In the end Zeus overruled, stating that Adonis would spend a third of the year with Aphrodite, and third with Persephone, and a third to rest from the sexual demands of both Goddesses. Aphrodite used her magic girdle to make Adonis so in love with her that he chose to spend two thirds of the year with her. Persephone grew jealous, and arranged for Adonis to die in a boar hunt so he would be with her always. (there are other versions, the key points are: he was lover of both Aphrodite and Persephone, and was killed by a boar)



Aphrodite and Hermes:

Aphrodite was married to the smith-God Hephaistos. However, she loved Ares and continued an affair with him after their marriage. Hephaistos grew suspicious, and forged a fine net with which he trapped the two lovers in, in bed. He then called all the Gods to witness their shame. Hermes declared that he would happly switch places with Ares in the net, even if all the Goddesses were looking on too. Posiden took on to free them from the net by reassuring Hephaistos that he would re-pay him for the betrothan gifts. In gratitute, Aphrodite slept with Posiden, and bore him sons Rhodos and Herophilus. She also slept with Hermes, due to his gallant comment, and bore him Hermaphroditos, a two sexed being.



She was the Goddess of Love, she slept with a great many people. She slept with Dionysos and bore him Priapos (a drawfish man with a huge penis) - although some myths say the father was Adonis and some myths say the father was Zeus. She bore Ares: Harmonia, Deimos, and Phobos. And many more children.



And that's just her immortal lovers...



So, in conclusion, your friend has chosen to style herself after the Goddess of Love who - whilst beautiful - is not known for her fidelity. And she's styled her boyfriend as a handsome youth who also sleeps with her neice.



She's also displaying a remarkable lack of knowledge for the general fate of anyone who compares themselves to the Gods (Medusa, Arachne...)

Answer 6

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Some things concern me about this situation. You are not married, he is not married, so there is no vow. But to call each other "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" implies some thoughts to that direction and requires some level of exclusivity. Maybe I'm just old, but to me, you meet someone and you are just casually dating, probably you are both still looking and maybe seeing someone else. Once you declare that this is my boyfriend or this is my girlfriend, you need to make a clean break BEFORE looking at someone else. Did you break up with him? Or did he break up with you? Were you left FOR the other woman? Or did they get together afterward? What was happening in the relationship that caused the break up? Are those things really intolerable? Were you being unreasonable? What about him or the situation is telling you things are going to be better this time? Here are a couple of things you do say that really concern me..... He is talking to another woman (you) about problems with his current girlfriend. Men of integrity, men worth having, don't bad mouth their women to other people. PERIOD. This is a big one for me. I've never understood phone sex or virtual sex. Personally, I'm not going there, you have to make your own choices. But it is, for all intents and purposes, sex. Say you got back with him. Is it alright with you for him to have virtual sex with other women when he is your boyfriend? Because seriously, if he will have virtual sex with you while he has another girlfriend, it is almost 100% certain that he will not be more faithful to you than he is to his current girlfriend.



One more thing. He is not being honest with you. Does he want you or her? If he was being honest with you, you would feel confident about it. To me it sounds like he may be playing both of you. Maybe the problem is that he isn't being honest with himself and doesn't really know what he wants. So the question is. Do you REALLY want him back? It may be far better to move on. In any case, right now you are coming from a position of weakness that says "treat me any way you want and I'll put up with it, I'm a door mat." This makes you vulnerable to the kind of man who would mistreat you. A man worth having doesn't want a doormat. You want a man who will not mistreat you and who would be faithful to you. Eventually you are going to want to get married. You don't want to marry someone that is going to be heartache and headaches. Exciting is not a bad thing, money is not a bad thing, handsome is not a bad thing.... but they mean nothing if you cannot trust him. If he's all about money, you are just an ornament. If he isn't about money at all, you are going to be struggling financially and stressing the relationship too much. Is this man worth the effort? Then you have to stand up and be honest with him and demand that he be honest with you about what he wants. How can you get him? I don't think that is the problem. I think he is too easy to get.

Answer 7

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Once you do that then you can start to worry about getting back together with your ex, other wise you will find that you are fighting about all the same things and getting no where. Do what it takes and I promise things will work out in your favor.



The funny thing is I came to the realization that I had to change a little too late. After I was kicked out and after I was about to lose the only things that truly mattered to me - her love. A funny thing happens when we truly love someone and lose them. We do what ever it takes to get them back. For me I had to drop bad habits that had caused not only our relationship to sour but practically every other relationship I had had in the past. Not only with women, but with friends, co-workers, family, you name it.



Which is why I say to you as my ex at the time said to me, the only thing you can do is change yourself. Work on yourself and improve on the person that you already are. Drop the negative things in your life that don't belong there and you will see all of your relationships start to take off to new heights.