The question of her origin is presented differently in the myths. According to one of them, Aphrodite had no parents and one day she emerged from the sea foam near Cyprus. Hesiod presented it a little differently, who in Theogony wrote that when the genitals of Ouranos cut off with a sickle (defeated by Kronos when he was spreading out over Gaia like the sky above the earth) fell into the sea near Cyprus, the water surrounded them with a white foam, from which then emerged beautiful Aphrodite. She swam on the sea in a shell, stopping at the shores of Kytera and then Cyprus. The second of these islands became her favorite place. On its shore, the Charites were waiting for her: Eufrosyne, Aglaia and Talia, who from that moment accompanied and served her. It was Cyprus that became the main place of worship of the goddess.