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Show Ancients Took Vegetables To Venus as Offerings Early offerings to Venus, goddess god-dess of love, were big flowery cabbages cab-bages and even leeks and garlic. Originally she personified beauty in nature and was the special pro-:ector pro-:ector of market gardeners around Rome. Later she became a goddess of brilliant beauty, had a planet named for her, was associated with the golden apple of mythology. mytholo-gy. The diamond came to be I- own as the Venus stone because o . its starlike brilliance. Cupid, her little boy who never grew up, is supposed to have descended de-scended from Chaos, that confused state of the universe before time was counted. |