Oshun & Aphrodite, Two Pagan Deities with a Common Beginning
Did you know the Goddess Aphrodite (who, in fact, historically correct would be classified as a Titan and not as a Goddess according to historians) is not the only Goddess of love born of water?
In African mythology the Goddess Oshun, who is the deity of love, rivers and good fortune, was also born of the waters. During a historical episode of the Titanomaquia, Cronos cut the members of his Father with a gold sickle, his members fall to the sea and of the semen is born Aphrodite, being she before Zeus although equally considered its daughter for being Zeus "the Father of the gods".
During the creation, according to the myth of the African sages, Yemaya, the Goddess of the Seas and Life, ruled alone on a water-covered world, the God Obbatala (equivalent in large part to the Roman Goddess Minerva / Greek Athena) arrived flying in a cloud with a five-legged hen (symbolizing the first pentagram in the history of Africa) and a bunch of earth, threw the earth to the ground from the sky and it did not sink, he placed the hen on the bunch of earth and this one began to excavate to all sides forming the surface of the Earth and the continents, between these arose the rivers and of the foam of the salt water that arrives to them Oshun appeared as the Goddess of the Love and happiness.
Two deities with many similarities or the same event counted from the point of view of an ancestral society?
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