Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, love, and sexual desire, was born from the sea foam after Cronus, the Titan king, castrated his father Uranus, the sky god, and threw his genitals into the sea. The sea churned and foamed around them and from this foam, Aphrodite emerged, fully-grown and in all her divine beauty. The name "Aphrodite" even means "foam-risen". She was floated to the shore on a scallop shell, making this symbol a recurring motif in art and literature when representing Aphrodite. The moment of her birth is often depicted as her standing in a giant scallop shell, as famously depicted in Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus."