The Story Of Cupid And Psyche

The story of Cupid and Psyche (also known as Cupid and Psyche or Eros and Psyche ) is about one of the three daughters of a king. According to history, she was not only the most beautiful woman in Anatolia (Turkey, as it is called today), but also the most beautiful in the world. In the story, everyone fell for her after seeing how beautiful she was. It was because of this that Venus, the goddess of love, became jealous. She was simply unable to cope with the fact that a mortal person was more beautiful than her.

This was because the men considered the beauty of the Psyche instead of worshiping Venus at her temple. Thus, the goddess could no longer endure and ordered Cupid, his son, to find and shoot her with one of his arrows, so that she would fall in love with the most horrible creature that existed.

Cupid, who was quite obedient, did exactly what his mother ordered him to do. However, he managed to stab himself with the arrow he was going to use on Psyche by accident, and fell incredibly in love with her. Ironically, the god of love had no experience with love itself, and did not know what to do with it. Because of this, he had no choice but to ask for help from Apollo, the god of light and truth.

A strange fate

The story of Cupid and the Psyche tells us that the god Apollo did not know what to do either. He believed that, at least in principle, it would be best to take all Psyches’ suitors out of the equation. Thus, through his power, men began to admire Psyche, but they did not fall in love with her. Therefore, all flattered her beauty, but no one wanted to marry her.

Furthermore, Psyche’s two sisters were already married, and she was not. It was then that her father, plagued by incredible bad luck, asked for help from the gods. Apollo knew that Cupid’s love must be kept secret, because otherwise Venus would be very angry. Thus he advised the king to take her to a distant mountain and leave her there.

Although the father was very sad, he did as Apollo said, because he was a wise god and his daughter would probably be happy. Furthermore, the myth tells that the girl cried inconsolably when she reached the height, and then she fell asleep. When she woke up, she was in a beautiful garden, next to a beautiful castle. Then a voice invited her to go in and put on the beautiful dresses and eat all the good food.

The story of Cupid and the Psyche

The same voice that had led her told her that her husband would visit her at night. However, the meetings would take place in the dark, and under no circumstances could she see his face. If she did, the two would have to separate forever. Thus, she had to trust him, because if there was no trust between them, it was not possible to maintain love.

The story goes that the girl felt flattered by getting so much attention. Then, after spending every night with him, she began to fall more and more in love with her husband. However, there was still something that hurt her, and that was that she had not seen her sisters for a while. She missed them sorely. Her husband tried to persuade her not to invite them to visit, but she was determined to do so. In the end, he agreed, but warned her not to talk about him with them.

The sisters came to the palace and were quite envious of everything their sister had and of the love that made her eyes shine. Thus, interestingly enough, they began to sow seeds of mistrust in her heart. They suggested that her husband could be a terrible monster.

The price of love

The story of Cupid and Psyche tells us that the girl followed the sisters’ advice. When she lit the candle, she saw beautiful Cupid lying next to her. When she looked at him, he was accidentally burned by the oil lamp. Then, clearly hurt and upset, he turned away from her and went to look for his mother. He swore he would never return to Psyche.

Psyche, now regretting that she did not trust her husband, went in search of Venus to ask her to fix her marriage. Venus made her go through all sorts of difficult, inhuman tests. However, there were some ants, a rose bush and an eagle that helped her overcome them. Finally, Venus asked her to travel to the underworld and bring her some of the beauty of Persephone, the queen of the underworld.

Persephone, touched by the girl’s story, gave her some of her beauty in a coffin. After much deliberation, Psyche managed to recover. Before she arrived, however, she decided to take a little piece of the beauty herself. Thus, she opened the coffin and fell asleep from the narcotic vapor that quickly rose out of it. When it happened, Cupid had already forgiven her and followed her everywhere without her knowing it. Thus he woke her from the magical dream.

The end of the story of Cupid and the Psyche

Then Cupid pleaded for the gods’ consent to his marriage to Psyche. They accepted it and gave ambrosia to Psyche so that she would become immortal. In light of this new situation, Venus gave in and consented to the marriage. In the end, they lived happily ever after.