Venus Urania (Christian Griepenkerl, 1878) Urania (Gr. ) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying "heavenly" or "spiritual", to distinguish her from her more earthly aspect of "Aphrodite Pandemos", "Aphrodite for all the people".^[1] The two were used (mostly in literature) to differentiate the more "celestial" love of body and soul from purely physical lust. Plato represented her as a daughter of the Greek god Uranus, conceived and born without a mother.^[2][3] Wine was not used in the libations offered her.^[4][5][6] According to Herodotus, the Arabs called this aspect of the goddess "Alitta" or "Alilat" ( or ).^[7][8]

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