How do I pronounce Palagia's Name?
English: Pa le ja
Greek: Pe la yia

What does her name mean?
Ocean, pleasure, promotes sexual desire, ignites love, and fertility goddess.

The Myth:
The myth of Aphrodite's birth out of the sea is very probably a reflection of the close connection between water and physical love, sexuality and fertility. There was a tradition that the goddess had lain with Poseidon himself, the master of the seas, to whom she bore Eryx and Rhodes. She was often depicted by ancient artist seated on a sea horse and accompanied by Triton and Nereids. In some sanctuaries, especially those by the coast, she was worshipped with the epithets Pelayia, Pontia and Limenis, all of which referred to her power to calm the sea and ensure that ships voyaged safely.

Aphrodite's epithets were Acidalia, Anadyomene (born of the sea), Cyprian, Cypris, Cythereia, Eriboea (Periboea), Erycina, Euploios (fair voyage), Papia (sexual love), Pelayia, and Pontia.

Aphrodite originated as a fertility goddess like the great Asiatic goddesses whose domain engrossed all nature, vegetable and animal as well as human. Afterward she became the goddess of love in its noblest aspect (Aphrodite Urania or celestial Aphrodite) as well as its most degraded (Aphrodite Pone, the goddess of lust and venal love and the patroness of prostitutes). She was also Aphrodite Tenetrix who favored and protected marriage. The chief centers of the cult were in Pathos in Cyprus and Cythera in Crete. She also became Aphrodite Pelayia a marine deity under the influence of the legend of her origin. Aphrodite is the archetype beautiful, seductive love goddess.

One of Aphrodite's names was Pelayia.