Unfortunately, as a Discovery Institute study documented last week, many of the icons cited by Wells are alive and well in supplementary instructional materials recently submitted by publishers to the Texas State Board of Education. A prime example is the Miller-Urey origin of life experiment.
In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was not interested in women, but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it. In time, Aphrodite's festival day came, and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. Thereâtoo scared to admit his desireâhe quietly wished for a bride who would be the living likeness of my ivory girl. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm.
The Romans paid such honor to Venus that venerate has come to mean to honor and respect. The story of Pygmalion is a Greek myth that uses the word venerate because of the festival of Venus that is being celebrated. venereal (origin) Mars and Venus Caught in a Net, Vulcan, who is apparently Venus' husband, catches the two lovers.