Aphrodite and Adonis

Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of beauty and love. She was born from the sea foam. One day she found a baby. She took him to the underworld to be fostered by Persephone.

Aphrodite returned for him once he was grown and discovered him to be strikingly handsome. Persephone wanted to keep Adonis for she too fell in love with him. The dispute between the two goddesses was settled by Zeus, the king of the gods: Adonis was to spend one half of every year with each goddess. Thus was Adonis' life divided between Aphrodite and Persephone, one goddess who loved him beneath the earth, the other one above it…

Sea by Matthias Groeneveld