Greek myths

Psyche and Eros part 1

The wonderful Psyche was the youngest of three sisters and was indeed the most beautiful. Her beauty was goddess-like, and she was compared to Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty. She had a heart so pure that she dreamed of a fairytale-like love. Her sisters laughed at her, but she ignored them.

When she was at the age where she could get married, suiters came from all over the world to propose. Merchants with charisma, bakers with a warm heart, princes with money, everyone tried, but no one succeeded.

She caught the eyes of even Apollo, but even he didn't try to persuade her. Psyche got so much attention that fewer people attended Aphrodite's temple, and few even forgot to worship her. Some people even though Psyche was a reincarnation of the goddess.

Even so, this caught the goddess's attention, and what else than jealousy comes with beauty?

Furious with this, Aphrodite sent her son, Eros to shoot one of his arrows. Eros is the god of love; his arrows can make one fall so deep in love that they get lost in themselves.

Aphrodite decided to send her son to take care of Psyche. To make her fall deeply in love with a man. A man that was so hideous and disgusting that she would be frowned upon and disowned. Yeah, Aphrodite wanted that. Her jealousy was incomparable. It was dangerous.

She sent Eros down, and when he approached Psyche's chamber in the dark of the night, he saw her. Laying peacefully in her sleep. He was shocked by her beauty and by accident he poked himself with the arrow.

The curse or the beauty of the arrow is what happens after. You fall deep and he did just that. He fell for Psyche at that moment, he like all else noticed her beauty. He realized her beauty was an injustice of making his mother jealous and angry. He now saw the beauty that was behind the assumptions of her being Aphrodite's offspring.

He had to make Psyche fall in love with him. That was easier said than done even for Eros himself. After all, he could just poke her with his arrow. No. He wanted to do this right. Eros wanted to do this differently than what the King of Olympus would do.

Eros set off to make his plan and a plan he made. One that would bring both happiness and sorrow. Depending on the perspective of course.