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    Venus (/ˈviːnəs/) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was...
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  • may also refer to: Venus (mythology), a Roman goddess Venus (1929 film), a silent French film Venus (1932 film), an Italian film Venus (2006 film), a British...
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  • "Venus" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the...
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    The Venus Award is a film award in the adult film industry presented yearly in Berlin since 1997 as part of the Venus Berlin, an international erotic...
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    Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story...
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  • pages with titles containing Birth of Venus Aphrodite § Birth Venus (mythology) Venus Anadyomene (Titian) Venus Anadyomene (Ingres) This disambiguation...
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    "Venus" is a song written by Ed Marshall. The most successful and best-known recording of the track was by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959, when it...
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    A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have...
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  • "Venus as a Boy" is a song by Icelandic musician Björk, released as the second single from her 1993 album, Debut. The song was written by Björk and was...
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    scene from Greek mythology, and its appeal is sensory and very accessible, hence its enormous popularity. In the centre, the goddess Venus (newly born in...
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    asuras and taught them the Vedas. In medieval mythology and Hindu astrology, the word refers to the planet Venus, one of the Navagrahas. In Hinduism, Shukra...
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    Vinalia (category Venus (mythology))
    vineyards were dedicated to Venus Obsequens, the earliest form of Venus to receive a temple at Rome. In Roman mythology, it marked the fulfillment of...
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  • folklore. In Roman mythology: Camenae were goddesses of springs, wells and fountains, or water nymphs of Venus (mythology). In Slavic mythology: A Vodyanoy (also...
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    Veneralia (redirect from Venus festival)
    Aprilis) in honor of Venus Verticordia ("Venus the changer of hearts") and Fortuna Virilis ("Manly" or "Virile Fortune"). The cult of Venus Verticordia was...
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    Venus Verticordia ("Changer of Hearts" or "Heart-Turner") was an aspect of the Roman goddess Venus conceived as having the power to convert either virgins...
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    Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) (category Venus (mythology))
    Carthage Aeneas – a Trojan royal hero, son of Anchises and the goddess Venus Ascanius – son of Aeneas Iarbas – King of Gaetulia who is in love with Dido...
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    entering the home. Mars and Venus, a popular couple from mythology, were represented in many houses' tablinum for this reason. Venus has appeared in Pompeian...
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  • (mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus. Venusian mountains are all named after goddesses in the mythologies of various cultures, except for the Maxwell...
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  • Venus Barbata ('Bearded Venus') was an epithet of the goddess Venus among the Romans. Macrobius also mentions a statue of Venus in Cyprus, representing...
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    Venusberg (German; French Mont de Vénus, "Mountain of Venus") is a motif of European folklore rendered in various legends and epics since the Late Middle...
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  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (category Venus (mythology))
    reveals that Albrecht is working as his servant. The Baron and Vulcan's wife, Venus, attempt a romantic interlude by waltzing in the air, prompting an irate...
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    Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus has by far...
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    Andromède (category Venus (mythology))
    the confidante of Anne of Austria. Prologue: Respects to the King Act I: Venus predicts the marriage of Andromeda while a final victim will be chosen for...
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    In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ɪˈniːəs/ ih-NEE-əs, Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son...
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    Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus, (Latin, 'Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes') or Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus, is a quotation from the Roman...
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    The Testament of Cresseid (category Venus (mythology))
    she returns to the home of her father Calchas, a keeper of the temple of Venus. Though Calchas welcomes her heartily, Cresseid desires to hide away from...
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    Os Lusíadas (category Venus (mythology))
    explorers are lured into an ambush but successfully survive with the aid of Venus. Venus pleads with her father Jove, who predicts great fortunes for the Portuguese...
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    Venus and Adonis is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the English Baroque composer John Blow, composed no later than 1684 (when we know it was...
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    constructing a plot involving the 14th-century Minnesänger and the myth of Venus and her subterranean realm of Venusberg. Both the historical and the mythological...
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  • "Venus" is a song recorded and produced by American singer Lady Gaga for her third studio album, Artpop (2013). It was written by Gaga, Paul "DJ White...
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