This is starting to get dull. I'm getting the "this is about to dive up its own philosophical anus" vibe that made me hate bakemonogatari. Yeah, I said it, I don't like bakemonogatari. Fight me.
...please don't fight me.
Paphos was the son (or, in Ovid, daughter) of Pygmalion whose ivory cult image of Aphrodite was brought to life by the goddess as "milk-white" Galatea.