With Valentine’s Day just behind us, we are reminded of love and when we think of the character that best represents love the first thing that comes to mind is Cupid. You can’t go to a store during the holiday season without seeing the image of Cupid on cards, stuffed toys, candy boxes, and flower vases. Cupid was one of the minor Roman Gods. Although we don’t know his exact birth we do know he was born on Mount Olympus,
Cupid is the son of Venus and Mercury. Venus is the goddess of love and Mercury is the messenger of the Gods.( Encyclopedia Britannica) Most Roman Gods had a temple built for them where they could live, but Cupid did not since he was always going around helping people fall in love. .
Cupid was often drawn as a winged …show more content…
It starts out when Venus, the mother of Cupid, got jealous of Psyche’s beauty and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal Psyche. But then Cupid fell madly in love with her instead. So he ended up marrying her, but there's was a problem, she was a mortal and so she was forbidden to look at him. Psyche's sisters were being nosey and persuaded her to try and look at Cupid. She did get a look at his face but he saw her and he punished her by leaving her and and when he left everything of theirs was gone. Their garden, their castle, everything. He left her alone in a field where no other humans were there, not even Cupid. Eventually Psyche came across the temple of Venus and since Venus was out to destroy her she gave her many tasks each harder than the last. One task was to take a box to the underworld and take some of Pluto's wife's beauty. But she was curious and opened the box and fell into a deep slumber instead of finding beauty. Cupid found her body and woke her up. He then took her to Zeus to ask him to give Psyche immortality and Zeus granted his request and she is now an immortal …show more content…
Most of the time people think he can do it only on Valentines day, but no, Cupid can do it at anytime anywhere to anyone. His stories about true love are more kid friendly because no one dies.
People who do not believe in God probably would rather talk about Cupid instead of Saint Valentine. Cupid’s parents, as stated earlier are Venus and Mercury which means he is the grandson of Zeus and Hera. Cupid also has a twin brother named Anteros.
Anteros, unlike Cupid, has butterfly wings and is in charge of unrequited love and was created by Aphrodite to not make Cupid lonely and also to keep Cupid from misbehaving. The use of the name Cupid is from Roman mythology, but when you look up the God of Love in Greek mythology the name Cupid is not use, they call him Eros. Although in stories Eros has different parents then Cupid, he is shown as a young boy with a bow and
Cupid is the son of Venus and Mercury. Venus is the goddess of love and Mercury is the messenger of the Gods.( Encyclopedia Britannica) Most Roman Gods had a temple built for them where they could live, but Cupid did not since he was always going around helping people fall in love. .
Cupid was often drawn as a winged …show more content…
It starts out when Venus, the mother of Cupid, got jealous of Psyche’s beauty and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal Psyche. But then Cupid fell madly in love with her instead. So he ended up marrying her, but there's was a problem, she was a mortal and so she was forbidden to look at him. Psyche's sisters were being nosey and persuaded her to try and look at Cupid. She did get a look at his face but he saw her and he punished her by leaving her and and when he left everything of theirs was gone. Their garden, their castle, everything. He left her alone in a field where no other humans were there, not even Cupid. Eventually Psyche came across the temple of Venus and since Venus was out to destroy her she gave her many tasks each harder than the last. One task was to take a box to the underworld and take some of Pluto's wife's beauty. But she was curious and opened the box and fell into a deep slumber instead of finding beauty. Cupid found her body and woke her up. He then took her to Zeus to ask him to give Psyche immortality and Zeus granted his request and she is now an immortal …show more content…
Most of the time people think he can do it only on Valentines day, but no, Cupid can do it at anytime anywhere to anyone. His stories about true love are more kid friendly because no one dies.
People who do not believe in God probably would rather talk about Cupid instead of Saint Valentine. Cupid’s parents, as stated earlier are Venus and Mercury which means he is the grandson of Zeus and Hera. Cupid also has a twin brother named Anteros.
Anteros, unlike Cupid, has butterfly wings and is in charge of unrequited love and was created by Aphrodite to not make Cupid lonely and also to keep Cupid from misbehaving. The use of the name Cupid is from Roman mythology, but when you look up the God of Love in Greek mythology the name Cupid is not use, they call him Eros. Although in stories Eros has different parents then Cupid, he is shown as a young boy with a bow and