She realized that he was Cupid, the most handsome god and not an ugly demon. But cupid woke up and shocked her, his sudden action hit the lamp in Psyche's hand and a jolt made the hot oil from the lamp fall into his eyes. The hot oil made Cupid blind.
He is often represented blindfolded because, love is often blind. His "weapon" is darts or arrows.
Eros was afraid that Psyche would not love him if he saw her face, so he only let her come around him at night when it was dark.
He did not wish to scare Psyche. He made himself invisible and warned Psyche if she valued his love, not to try to catch a glimpse of him. Psyche was treated with great gentleness and good company and much laughter and soon fell in love with her invisible host.
However, when Eros laid eyes on Psyche, he was so completely mesmerized by her beauty that he forgot to carry out his mother's orders. In fact, he fell in love with Psyche himself.
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most beautiful and sad in Greek mythology. In the story, Orpheus, the greatest poet, and musician in history tries to reclaim his wife, Eurydice, who has passed away. To save his loved one, Orpheus will travel to the underworld and back.
Symbol or Attribute: The spear. He is also associated with vultures and dogs. Strengths:Decisive, determined, fearless. Weaknesses: Impulsive, bloodthirsty, raring for a fight regardless of the consequences.
Eros is a baby boy name of Greek origin for “desire”. In ancient Greek mythology, Eros is known as the “god of desire” and “son of the goddess of love and fertility, Aphrodite”.
According to an early myth, Gaia (goddess of the Earth) and Eros were the source of all creation. Literary references of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. often portray Eros as a cruel, capricious being who causes burning desire.
Eros's hatred for Apollo worsens after he learns that Apollo raped his best friend Persephone. While Eros has promised Persephone not to reveal what Apollo has done, he has trouble controlling his rage whenever he is around him.
Above him, he saw Psyche wielding a razor and fire, so he fled. Psyche catches onto Eros as he begins to fly, apologizing for her mistrust, but he rejects. For her betrayal, Eros vows that she will never see him again. He drops her to the ground and flies away.
Each night when he comes to her in bed, she's supposed to entertain him and then go to sleep without ever getting a peek at her lover. Psyche's jealous sisters eventually convince her that she's got to get a look at the dude she's sleeping with, and so Psyche breaks her word to Cupid. On one level, this is betrayal.
As a consequence, Goddess Aphrodite got very jealous and decided to punish the beautiful, young girl. She ordered her son, Eros, to visit Psyche and throw his arrow to make her fall in love with the ugliest thing on earth.
Eros Riding a Dolphin
Because of the assonance between the ancient Greek word delphis (δελφίς), meaning dolphin, and the word delphus (δελφύς), meaning womb, dolphins were considered animals sacred to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, fertility and desire.
Cupid and Greek Mythology
Armed with a bow and a quiver filled with both golden arrows to arouse desire and leaden arrows to ignite aversion, Eros struck at the hearts of gods and mortals and played with their emotions.
Eros (/ˈɪərɒs/, US: /ˈɛrɒs, irɒs, -oʊs/; from Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) 'love, desire') is a concept in ancient Greek philosophy referring to sensual or passionate love, from which the term erotic is derived.
In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love, and Thanatos is the god of death, making them opposite of one another.
According to all the myths, Eros was beautiful, but also a permanent source of trouble for both the gods and the mortals. He appeared and threw his arrows, causing insane love and at the same time, suffering to people. Nevertheless, he suffered from a common mortal, Psyche.
Psyche and Eros were faithful to one another and had no other lovers. According to some sources (cuz history/mythology is confusing) Hephaestus did have children with lovers before Aphrodite, but during their marriage remained faithful - then some sources say he divorced her and had other lovers.
After successfully completing these tasks, Aphrodite relents and Psyche becomes immortal to live alongside her husband Eros. Together they had a daughter, Voluptas or Hedone (meaning physical pleasure, bliss).
Perhaps Cupid is usually seen as a baby because babies represent the combination of two people in love. In Greek mythology, his mother is Aphrodite. Cupid is the equivalent to the gods Amor and Eros, depending on which myths are told. He is represented by the symbol of two hearts with an arrow piercing through them.
PSYKHE (Psyche) was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl.
Eros is erotic or sexual or passionate love. It's often all about need and it's more about the person who's feeling sexually attractive than it is about the person who is the focus of that love or thing that is the focus of that love. It is addicting. It can cause great joy and great sorrow.
Eros was a god not simply of passion but also of fertility. His brother was Anteros, the god of mutual love, who was sometimes described as his opponent.
According to some sources, the love god Eros was also one of Aphrodite's offspring. He was often a companion or intermediary for the goddess, but he did not always act with her blessing, and was frequently portrayed as a troublesome child.