• Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes (Spanish: Afrodita, el Jardín de Los Perfumes) is a 1998 Argentine - Mali drama film directed and written by Argentine...
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    Viola odorata (redirect from Garden violet)
    fragrantica. Poucher, W.A. (1923). Perfumes Cosmetics and Soaps, Vol. 2, Chapter V: Monographs on Flower Perfumes. Curtis & Williams (2009). An Introduction...
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    Rose (redirect from Culture of rose)
    associated with the goddess Aphrodite. In the Iliad, Aphrodite protects the body of Hector using the "immortal oil of the rose" and the archaic Greek lyric poet...
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    Fatoumata Coulibaly (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    Mali (Office of Broadcasting Television of Mali) (ORTM). Guimba the Tyrant (1995) N'Golo dit Papa (1997) Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes (1998) Moolaadé...
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    Quince (redirect from Culture of quince)
    the temple of Aphrodite, Acontius plucks a quince from the "orchard of Aphrodite", inscribes its skin and furtively rolls it at the feet of her illiterate...
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    prior to being incorporated into the worship of Aphrodite. The sacred banquet ritual consumed in the oikoi is echoed in the numerous recumbent statuettes...
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    Calycanthus (category Garden plants of North America)
    oil used in some quality perfumes. "Calycanthus L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 February...
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    Spice use in antiquity (category History of food and drink)
    early as the 2nd millennium BCE, even though it originally came from the West Asia/North Africa region. Linear B tablets talk of its use in perfumes as well...
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    Marjoram (category Flora of the Mediterranean Basin)
    believed the plant was created by Aphrodite. In one myth, the royal perfumer of Cyprus, Amaracus, was transformed into marjoram. To the Romans the herb was...
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    of Aphrodite Urania The south end of what is believed to be a Basilica has been uncovered near Hadrian Street and is dated to the mid 100s C.E. The Stoa...
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  • Al-'Uzza is associated with the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite. Pre-Islamic Arabs believed her to be one of the daughters of Allah alongside Al-lāt and...
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    modern gardens, including a garden of perfumes, surrounding a 12th-century priory. Château de Sauvan in Mane. 18th-century château with a Garden à la française...
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    Minthe (category Residents of the Greek underworld)
    ISBN 978-1-4051-4925-9. Cyrino, Monica S. (June 25, 2010). Aphrodite. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-77523-6...
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    to produce galantamine. Throughout history the scent of narcissi has been an important ingredient of perfumes, a quality that comes from essential oils...
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    Aphroditeola (category Fungi of Europe)
    needed] The name Aphroditeola is an allusion to Aphrodite Greek goddess because of the combination of pretty pink coloration and perfume-like odor. The specific...
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    Viola tricolor (category Garden plants of Europe)
    and the Celts and Romans made perfumes of them.[citation needed] The flowers have also been used to make yellow, green and blue-green dyes, while the leaves...
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    Myrrha (category Deeds of Aphrodite)
    and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having...
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    between Aphrodite and Adonis, and ritual mourning for his death. Decorations and ritual trappings for the feast, including the dish gardens, were transformed...
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    Edgar Saltus (category American people of Dutch descent)
    Impression. Chicago: Brothers of the Book, 1917. The Imperial Orgy. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. The Gardens of Aphrodite. Philadelphia: Pennell Club...
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    Hathor (redirect from Temple of Hathor)
    Hathor Aphrodite. Traits of Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite were all combined to justify the treatment of Ptolemaic queens as goddesses. Thus, the poet Callimachus...
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    Narcissus in culture (category National symbols of Wales)
    and the rose's lovely bloom, so sweet and delicious, and heavenly buds, the flowers of the narcissus and lily. In such perfumed garments is Aphrodite clothed...
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    However, the preliminary sacrifice to Aphrodite in the garden does not go well. The offering is stolen by an eagle, who flies off towards the beach. The soothsayers...
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    the wellbeing of the state are embodied by the Roman cult of Venus, who differs from her Greek counterpart Aphrodite in her role as a mother of the Roman...
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    the technique of draperie mouillée ("wet cloths"), light dresses and attached to the body, such as the Aphrodite of the Ludovisi Throne, the Niké of Paeonius...
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    import from China, while the Chinese purchased Parthian spices, perfumes, and fruits. Exotic animals were also given as gifts from the Arsacid to Han courts;...
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    statue of the deity was held aloft, and people shouted "Highgates! Highgates!" Hyett also erected temples and follies to Pan in the gardens of his house...
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    masculine form of "Venus" (Aphrodite) who received cult on Cyprus; she had a beard and male genitals, but wore women's clothing. The deity's worshippers...
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    nude Aphrodite. In general, however, concepts of either shame or offense, or the social comfort of the individual, seem to have been deterrents of public...
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    Boccaccio; and the fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual The Perfumed Garden. A highly developed culture of visual erotica flourished in Japan during the early modern...
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  • Dione, was the mother of Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love; but the term was also used in poetry for Venus herself. Cacō, cacāre was the chief Latin...
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