He flies around with an arrow bag on his back every day. This one shoots a golden arrow and that one shoots a lead arrow, which makes the fairy dizzy and the tragicomedy of love keeps appearing. Of course, he himself has always been an audience. But he didn't expect that one day he actually became the protagonist in a love drama! The following legend tells the love story between Cupid and Psyche.
Greece has a little-known city-state, which has always been loved by the gods of love and beauty. People there especially love beauty and know what beauty is. Every place in this small city-state has a temple of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. People respect her, love her and always give her the best sacrifice. But in the past year or two, things seem to have changed. The temple of Venus began to be neglected, and fewer and fewer people went to sacrifice, and then it was simply empty; There is dust everywhere on the altar, the dust on the ground has accumulated very thick, and there are cobwebs in the corner of the temple. The goddess was furious at this situation and immediately turned into a person to visit the city.
It turns out that the king of this small city-state has three daughters, the eldest and the second are both ordinary, but the youngest daughter is very beautiful in the past two years. She has a graceful figure, a beautiful face and dazzling eyes. No one who has met her knows what words to use to describe her. They just praised everyone, so the princess's reputation spread all over the city. People in the city regard the beauty of the princess as the pride of their country, and countless people come to the palace to see her every day. Everyone worships her like a goddess and even gives her the best things. Her name Psek has long been forgotten, and everyone calls her Beauty God, as if she were Venus.
Venus was so jealous of her that she ordered Cupid to punish her. However, Cupid fell in love with Psyche as soon as he saw her and married her. Psyche lived a comfortable life in the temple, but because she was mortal, she had never seen Cupid's face, so she was depressed. Her two sisters were jealous of her life in the temple, so they lied to her that Cupid was a demon and encouraged her to peek at him at night. When she lit the oil lamp at night and saw Cupid, she realized that he was a handsome boy. Cupid woke up with a start and left angrily. The palace and garden disappeared, and psyche found herself lying alone in the wilderness.
Psyche looked for her husband everywhere and came to the temple of Venus. In order to destroy her, cupid assigned her many arduous and dangerous tasks. The last task is to ask her to give an empty box to prosser Ping (the queen of hades) and bring back a box of beauty from her.
On the way, a voice has been instructing her how to get rid of all kinds of death threats and warning her not to open the box when she gets it back. Psyche overcame all kinds of difficulties and finally finished the task. On the way back, her curiosity drove her to open the box. There are beautiful women inside, but they are sleeping ghosts in hell. It escaped from the box and attached itself to Psyche, turning her into a sleeping corpse.
Cupid found Psyche sleeping on the ground, so he snatched the couch from her hand and put it back in the box. Cupid forgave her, and Venus forgave her. The gods were moved by her persistent love for Cupid, so they gave her a bowl of immortal soup and named her a goddess. In this way, psyche and Cupid finally got married.