Maererano nengano Simina, mwanasikana wamambo weAsiria, akasekwa Aphrodite mwarikadzi werudo, achiti aive akanaka. Aphrodite, kutsiva, akamuranga nekupenga rudo kuna baba vake. Simina husiku humwe, achitora mukana werima, akapinda pamubhedha wababa vake ndokuzvipa kwaari. Baba vake pavakaona hukama hwehukama hunyengeri, vakavhiringidzika uye vakashatirwa, vakavhomora bakatwa ravo, vakavatevera, ivo vakapunyuka chete Aphrodite unoushandura ukaita muti wemimirite. Pakasvika nguva yekuzvara, bark rakaputika uye murume akabuda mairi wavakadaidza kuti Adonis, sezvo amai vaSmyrna vaisakwanisa kumurera, Aphrodite akanzwira mwana tsitsi ndokumupa Persephone kuti airere.
Persephone akadanana naAdonis uye akamuchengetera iye, kumuita mudiwa, godo Aphrodite anomuti. Iyo nharo ndeyekuti Zeus aifanirwa kupindira, achivapa ivo vaviri, asi rudo rwatatu rwacho haruna kushanda, uye zvakatungamira kukakavara kwegodo, iro rakaunza rufu nebanga re Adonis nemaoko amwari Ares. Adonis, akamanikidzwa kupedza akavharirwa mugehena. Asi mwarikadzi Aphrodite akazvitora kunze kwemwedzi mitanhatu kuti afarire rudo rwake.
Iyi nyaya ndeye tsika dzakawanda fananidzo nezvekurima. Mbeu inovanda pasi penyika saAdonis, inozvarwa muchirimo, apo Aphrodite, mwarikadzi wekubereka, anobatana naAdonis, painobereka michero chirimo, inowira pasi pejeko remucheki.
Huni dze mura Inotsvakwa zvakanyanya nevagadziri vemakabineti kana vanodzosera nekuti yakaoma uye ine mamota. Ku mura Ivo vanoishandisa kuita bonsai, kana semuti wekushongedza. Kuchekerera kunogona kuitwa mumavhiki ekupedzisira echando, kuwedzerwa nembeu kana kutemwa.