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Aphrodite OraniaAphrodite Urania

Heavenly Aphrodite.

The temple of Aphrodite Orania in the city of Askalon (Ascalon) in ancient Syria was thought to be the oldest shrine to the goddess on earth; when the Skythians (Scythians) invaded what we call the middle east, they marched through Syria; most of the soldiers did not plunder or harm the Syrians but some of them looted the ancient temple of Aphrodite Orania; the soldiers and their descendants were afflicted by the goddess of Love with a disease which is generally called the “female sickness” and causes loss of virility; the Skythians call the victims of this illness, Enareis, i.e. hermaphrodite.

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