Gleb Botkin used this symbol of Aphrodite on the vestments for his Church of Aphrodite. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religions especially the Latin Rite and other Roman Catholics

The Church of Aphrodite was a nature-based church founded by Gleb Botkin on Long Island, New York in 1938. Gleb Evgenievich Botkin, (1900 – December 1969 was the son of Dr Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches He won the right to register it as a religious charter in the New York State Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the State of New York is New York State 's Trial court, and is of General jurisdiction.

Botkin later moved the church to Charlottesville, Virginia. Charlottesville is an Independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States He self-published a book arguing that Aphrodite was the supreme deity and the creation of the world was like a woman giving birth. The church was one of the earliest of its kind in the neopaganism movement in the United States. Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is an Umbrella term used to identify a wide variety of modern religious movements particularly those influenced by historical Botkin's church is mentioned in the recent book Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America, by Chas S. Clifton. ^{[1] [2]}

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