Pygmalion prayed to Venus to give him a wife as beautiful as his own statue that he had created.
Venus may have answered Pygmalion's prayer because he was a skilled sculptor who created a stunningly beautiful statue that captured the essence of feminine beauty. As the goddess of love, Venus likely appreciated and honored Pygmalion's dedication and the purity of his love for his creation.
Aphrodite (Venus).
The Venus Flytrap attracts its pray via vibrant colours and sweet scent.
They thought that if they prayed to her then they would get a love.
The same reason we pray to our God; they wanted something, or wanted to give thanks for something. The difference is that they prayed specifically to Venus on matters of love.
Venus was enraged with the women of Cyprus because they denied her divinity. Venus turned them into prostitutes, and because they had no shame, they could be turned into stone. Pygmalion was disgusted with the women of Cyprus. He carved himself a statue out of ivory and fell in love with it. At a feast for Venus(strange,because the people were opposed to Venus' divinity,this is likely a mix of two stories from an oral tradition), Pygmalion prays to Venus. When he returns home,his statue has been turned into a woman(Galatea). 9 monts later,she gives birth a son,Paphos.
You can find Venus flytraps in swampy areas where there is no mineral content in the soil.Nutrition is obtained by the pray.
In the Greek myth of Pygmalion, he falls in love with a statue he sculpted because he is disillusioned with the women in his society. His love for the statue, Galatea, is a reflection of his desire for an ideal and unattainable love.
Aphrodite (Roman, Venus) was the Greek goddess of love and beauty, so people would pray to her for anything concerning those.
Pygmalion was a talented sculptor who lived in southern Cyprus. He couldn't find the ideal woman in real world so he created her out of a block of snow-white marble. He talked to her as she was a real woman and he asked for Venus to make her alive. One day, when he lost all his hopes, he found the sculpture alive. Galatea is the name of that sculpture who became a real woman afterwards.
Pygmalion of Tyre died in -785.
Pygmalion in the Classroom was created in 1968.