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Well, for one, he wasn't born a Greek god. He was mortal man: at his birth he was loved by Aphrodite, and then by Persephone, when he died, he spent two-third year with Aphrodite and one-third with Persephone becoming a god of desire, beauty, and life-death-rebirth.

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