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Pagan Portals- Aphrodite: Encountering the Goddess of Love & Beauty & Initiation Clive Barker And the backdrop to thisAphrodite is an often misunderstood goddess, one who is easy to relegate to the love goddess role, but she is a goddess who also shows up as an initiator and, some might say, troublemaker. In this book, we seek to explore the complexity of a goddess who was born on sea foam and who inspires beauty and love, all the while offering a hand toward each one of us to celebrate our full hearts.