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Sep 16, 1000
Aphrodite's Jealousy
Aphrodite was extremely jealous of Psyche because Psyche posed as a threat. It it said that Aphrodite was forgotten when Psyche became to be known. Aphrodite was very jealous of Phsyche's beauty
To get rid of Psyche, Aphrodite asked her son Eros to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest man on Earth. Eros shoots golden arrows which make people fall in love. He accidentally pricked himself with one of his arrows and fell in love with Psyche himself. He could not bear to do harm to her -
Eros and Psyche
Sure enough, Psyche, could find no husband. Her parents, afraid that they had offended the gods somehow, asked an oracle to reveal Psyche's future husband. The oracle said that, while no man would have her, there was a creature on the top of a mountain that would marry her.When she arrived, she saw that her new home was in fact a rich and beautiful palace. Her new husband never permitted her to see him, but he proved to be a true and gentle lover. He was, of course, Eros himself. -
Eros and Apollo
Eros was using bows to struck people into love. Apollo had just won Python, a horrible earth-dragon that was living in the area of Delphi, and had got so arrogant from his victory that he abruptly told Eros to leave war-like weapons to mighty gods like him and stick to his own pastimes, devaluing his duty to inflate love and passion to others. This infuriated the headstrong Eros who decided to take his revenge on the audacious Apollo. -
Aphrodite's and Ero's Almost Love.
aphrodite & Eros In art,
Eros is often shown as Aphrodite’s companion. He frequently carries a lyre or hare, but can be hard to tell from other winged boyish figures. Eros looses an arrow into a young man, causing him to fall in love with Aphrodite. A second arrow strikes Aphrodite herself, but her desire is for the reflection of herself that she sees in her mirror, leaving the young man dejected at her feet -
The Cosmic Beings
Cosmic 6th century b.c
The poet Hesiod first represents him as a cosmic who emerged self-born at the beginning of time to spur procreation. He was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the early cosmos. The Orphics knew him as Phanes, a primal being hatched from the world egg at creation. He was also equivalent to Thesis, "Creation," and Physis, "Nature."
