Cupid is known as Eros in ancient Greece. Track5 / Getty Images.
How is Cupid?
It is believed that Venus took care of Cupid With suspicion, it was a little God, this caused the child to escape frequently, which over time, caused in his mother a genuine and worrying doubt, why did the child not grow? So he went to the Oracle of Themis for solutions and only received one phrase: «Love cannot grow without passion.» Thus, without much understanding, his anteros son, God of passion and every time he was born Cupid was with him grew to became a beautiful young manbut not as happening as it was small.
It is said that Apollo made fun of his skills as an archer and to show him the opposite, because he was a competitive child, he threw an arrow of love and he fell in love with Dafne who received one of oblivion. Thus, No one made fun of Cupid.
However, every time it could, Cupid spent time with anteros To grow then he wanted to fall in love, but also stop being a small diapers and both happened. One afternoon Venus knew about the existence of psyche, a mortal considered the most beautiful young woman in the world, to such a degree that the gods were falling in love with her and He asked Cupid to throw love arrows, Well, he wanted him to fall in love with the worst man on earth. However, Cupid fell at his feet Seeing her and she was introduced as a young attractive and loving, but she couldn't see her face or couldn't be together.
Psyche felt very happy with him despite not seeing his face ylE gave the confidence that Cupid expectedand he understood that without confidence love dies. One night, manipulated by their sisters, Psyche saw Cupid's face And this one, who had taken her to a castle, expelled her. However, the love of both was so great that she asked Venus to let them be together. This put obstacles and evidence he overcome until he found his beloved. Since then, the union Cupid – psyche is synonymous with love and soul. From this romance, voluptas was born, goddess of pleasure.