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Venusian Deities
Venusian , Venerean , or Venereal may refer to: * Venus, a planet ** Venusians, hypothetical or fictional beings that inhabit the planet Venus * Venus (goddess) See also * Cytherean, for a discussion of adjectives relating to the planet Venus * Venus (other) {{disambiguation Venus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker and denser than Earth and any other rocky body in the Solar System. Its atmosphere is composed of mostly carbon dioxide (), with a global sulfuric acid cloud cover and no liquid water. At the mean surface level the atmosphere reaches a temperature of and a pressure 92 times greater than Earth's at sea level, turning the lowest layer of the atmosphere into a supercritical fluid. Venus is the third brightest object in Earth's sky, after the Moon and the Sun, and, like Mercury, appears always relatively close to the Sun, either as a "morning star" or an "evening star", resulting from orbiting closer ( inferior) to the Sun than Earth. The orbits of Venus and Earth make the two planets approach each other in synodic periods of 1.6 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venusians
The planet Venus has been used as a Setting (narrative), setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its Atmosphere of Venus, opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on conditions at its surface—a "cosmic Rorschach test", in the words of science fiction author Stephen L. Gillett. The planet was often depicted as warmer than Earth but still Planetary habitability, habitable by humans. Depictions of Venus as a lush, verdant paradise, an oceanic planet, or fetid swampland, often inhabited by dinosaur-like beasts or other monsters, became common in early Pulp magazine, pulp science fiction, particularly between the 1930s and 1950s. Some other stories portrayed it as a desert, or invented more exotic settings. The absence of a common vision resulted in Venus not developing a coherent fictional mythology, in contrast to the image of Mars in fiction. When included, the native sentient inhabitants, Venusians, were often portrayed as gentle, ethereal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (goddess)
Venus (; ) is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles. The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature. In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus became one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality. As such, she is usually depicted nude. Etymology The Latin theonym and the common noun ('love, charm') stem from a Proto-Italic form reconstructed as ''*wenos-'' ('desire'), itself from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ' ('desire'; cf. Messapic , Old Indic 'desire'). Derivatives include ''venustus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytherean
Cytherean is an adjective literally meaning ''of Cythera'' (Latin ''Cytherēa'', from the Greek adjective Κυθέρεια ''Kythereia'', from Κύθηρα ''Kythēra'' 'Cythera'). Cythera is a small Greek island, southeast of the Peloponnesus, and a legendary birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). The word ''Cytherean'' was first applied to the goddess and later, due to word taboo, to the planet Venus that had been named after the goddess. When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss details of the planets, a need arose for generally accepted adjectives. As the planets had traditionally been associated with gods in classical mythology, there were commonly used adjectives that already related to some characteristic of the gods; for example, Mars and "martial" (warlike), Saturn and "saturnine" (gloomy). A consensus arose to use a slightly modified form - "Martian" for Mars, "Saturnian" for Saturn - that avoided these existing connotations. In the case of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (other)
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Venus or VENUS may also refer to: * Venus (mythology), a Roman goddess Arts and entertainment Films * ''Venus'' (1929 film), a silent French film * ''Venus'' (1932 film), an Italian film * ''Venus'' (2006 film), a British comedy-drama * ''Venus'' (2017 film), a Canadian comedy-drama * ''Venus'' (2022 film), a Spanish-language horror Music Bands * Venus (Belgian band) Albums * ''Venus'' (Ari Brown album) (1998) * ''Venus'' (Hello Venus EP) (2012) * ''Venus'' (We Are the Fury album) (2007) * ''Venus'' (Joy Williams album) (2015) * ''Venus'' (Zara Larsson album), (2024) * ''Vénus'', a 2008 album by Sheryfa Luna * ''Venus'', a 2014 EP by Jett Rebel Songs * "Venus" (Frankie Avalon song), released in 1959 * "Venus" (Lady Gaga song), released in 2013 * "Venus" (Shocking Blue song), also prominently covered by Bananarama * "Venus" (Tackey & Tsubasa song) * "Venus", a song from the 2004 album '' Talkie Walkie'' by Air * "Venus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
