Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
I thought I would celebrate with the ever popular subject
in art, the love story Cupid and Psyche.
Now this story is from a latin novel called Metamorphoses, also known as the Golden Ass,
the donkey kind. It is written in the second AD by Apuleius. It is a pretty long
story but the gist of it about the beautiful young maiden Psyche
and how the son of Venus, Eros, aka
Cupid, falls in love with her.
Now, if you can not tell with Venus being his mother and all, Cupid is
a god whereas Psyche is a human.
See where this is going? Story begins in an unnamed city where the king and queen
had three daughters
of conspicuous beauty, the youngest which was the most beautiful
Psyche, and her beauty would cause her admirers to neglect their proper worship of
the love goddess, Venus. Of course this made Venus
furious. How could you compare a mere mortal too not just
any god, but to the most beautiful god? As a result, she sent her son
exact revenge. You can probably tell that is not what happened and instead
Cupid falls in love with her, and wants her for himself.
Meanwhile, Psyche's father is a little bit concerned about his baby daughter
has yet to find a husband
so he goes and consults the oracle, Apollo.
Now the results were pretty grim. The Oracle told the king you're not to
expect any human son-in-law instead
a dragon like creature who will torment the world with this
fire and iron, who is feared even by Jupiter, the king of God
and the inhabitants the underworld. The king must have been very disappointed
Psyche is dressed in funeral attire and send on her marriage slash death
fusion with some divine intervention she's Flown off to this grove and she
finds a lovely and beautiful house
she goes an she hears this place he tells her to make yourself at home
but she can't see this guy because he is in the dark she marries him anyway
Now her husband, supposedly a beast, forbid her from looking at him
and he always leaves the bed it before sunrise soon she becomes pregnant
one day psyche sisters come for a visit and admiring the splendors of her new
home they're insanely envious of her they convince her that her husband is a
vial monster and she has to go kill him
so one night while her husband is asleep she grabs
and dagger and an oil lamp and when she lights the lamp she sees
her husband is not the monster that the oracle predicted
but the most beautiful creature she's ever seen
cupid that's right it was Cupid sneaking out of bed this whole time
Surprised she wounds herself on one of Cupid's arrows
and struck with the feverish passion she accidentally spills
hot oil onto Cupid, waking him and he flees the scene
by flying out the window. Cue the long and dramatic story to find love!
she wanders around the world and bumps into you few gods along the way
she gains the favor of Ceres and Juno but soon she finds that she needs sister
Venus your cell
now remember loneliness doesn't like this girl I V mishaps a key under her
control she decided to torture her
she sends her on a buncha impossible task
because thankies a young independent strong woman
she completes the mother herself no she doesn't
instead it's a key is a pretty much ready to give up
and deputy party and kill urself
yeah that's it berries time a creature our God
feels pity for her and help her out and she completes
each task lol last after the news gives her is to go to be
underworld 19 does beauty from priest appena
keno beyond world again the girls ready two killers there she goes up the tower
is ready to turn herself off
this time the power spoke to her really
every single time that hard hold her all the directions how to get and how to
navigate the underworld
and she follows instructions two nt she gets a box reception a
but as soon as she hits the light of day she's overcome with curiosity
what's in the box can I make me beautiful and she opened it
and of course women and the story is always get in trouble for a curiosity
and she falls into a deep slumber meanwhile keep its Justin
recovering at me missus place and he pleases mother's home by
again flying out the window he finds a sleeping psyche jobs this week outer
based puts it back in the box puncture with the narrow that does no harm and
they fly off to deliver the boxes
venous he then goes to Jupiter gives them his consent
by owais Jupiter agrees to help keep it out because
keep that promise he would help him out in the future you know I like
pretty lady catches I heat openness to back up your psyche ambrosia
interim government which howdy and that you are wedded
as equal love like that you look the two are very popular subject in
acts like is often depicted Lynn butterfly wings are with their flight
nearby
even though the litter a story never mentioned butterfly wing
they're usually attributed to your school or her innocence before her
sexual awakening
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