The Goddess of Beauty of the Ancient Nations of the World

In ancient pagan religions, the goddess of beauty and love was revered no less than the supreme deities. She was worshiped, built temples, made sacrifices, tried to coax for the sake of family well-being and a happy life.

Slavic beauty goddess - Lada

Each people has its own history and its own religious beliefs. Most of all, of course, we have heard of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. But this does not mean at all that we Slavs did not have their patroness of the family hearth. And here it was, called her Lada. Slavs believed that she patronizes marriages, strengthens them, brings happiness and tranquility to the family. Therefore, the most popular goddess of beauty Lada enjoyed by young couples who brought her gifts of berries, flowers, honey and live birds. Lada also patronized young mothers and their children. She was very fond of the Slavic people. Often holidays were organized in her honor. The Slavs believed that the goddess listened to all requests and tried to fulfill them, so they called her tenderly Shedryna.

The Scandinavian goddess of beauty Freya is so fond of the people that she was dedicated to one weekday - Friday. No wonder in translation from German this day is called Freitag. This day, according to legends, is favorable for marriages, love affairs and peace negotiations. Freya was also revered as the patroness of an armistice and family warmth.

But in Ireland, the goddess of beauty and love was portrayed as a tender, fragile, slender, incredibly beautiful woman, dressed in a silver dress with flowers in her hair. Her name was Ein, a goddess lived in the realm of fairies and showed herself only on moonlit nights. Particularly patronized by Ein to those women who respected and loved the fertile land. First of all, the "moon goddess" tried to teach female representatives playfulness, seductiveness and wisdom in love pleasures, so that you could certainly seduce and fall in love with a man.

Hathor is an Egyptian goddess of beauty and love who adored fun, music and holidays. Therefore, she was portrayed with a musical instrument - sistre. The Egyptians believed that an amulet in the form of a sisra on the neck protects from trouble and trouble. Particularly good Hathor was to young couples, guarded their family hearth.

Probably, there is no person who does not know who the Greek goddess of beauty is. Her name has already become an association with unearthly beauty and unsurpassed love. The daughter of Uranus, the father of Zeus, she was born from the foam sea on the island of Crete. Aphrodite! So they call her, and still revere her.

She patronized the musicians and writers who glorified love, she was the greatest fan of real feelings. Although she did not represent an example of matrimonial fidelity, as she was the wife of the god of blacksmithing and the fire of Hephaestus, who was far from handsome. Because of this, the inhabitants of Olympus often witnessed her conflicts with the hero - patroness of the family and home. Even the cause of the Trojan War, the Greeks saw in Aphrodite, who sent spells on Paris, after which he fell in love with Elena.

The Greeks had a rather peculiar concept of beauty: a strong elastic body, large facial features, huge body parts - it was considered beautiful. This was depicted and Aphrodite.

The goddesses of beauty of each people are, in their own way, delicious. All peoples carefully treated the feelings of love, family relationships and the upbringing of children, and therefore valued their goddesses very highly.