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Pairs that remind me of Aphrodite and her blorbos (mortal lovers)

 At Eryx in Sicily there is a festival which not only the people of Eryx but everybody atel throughout the whole of Sicily as well call the 'Festival of the Embarkation.' And the reason why the festival is so called is this: they say that during these days Aphrodite sets out thence for Libya. They adduce in support of their belief the following circumstance. There is there an immense multitude of Pigeons. Now these disappear, and the people of Eryx assert that they have gone as an escort to the goddess, for they speak of Pigeons as 'pets of Aphrodite,' and so everybody believes them to be. But after nine days one bird of conspicuous beauty is seen flying in from the sea which brings it from Libya: it is not like the other Pigeons in a flock but is rose-coloured, just as Anacreon of Teos describes Aphrodite, styling her somewhere 'roseate.' And the bird might also be compared to gold, for this too is like the same goddess of whom Homer sings as 'golden'. And after the bird follow the other Pigeons in clouds, and again there is a festal gathering for the people of Eryx, the 'Festival of the Return'; the name is derived from the event.

Butes and Aphrodite's dynamic is literally that one yaoi base

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