The Story of Cupid Cupid’s Love Story Introduction

The son of Venus and Mars, people imagine him as a beautiful boy about to enter youth. His common weapon is a golden bow, and the arrows he shoots are always accurate. Those who are shot will suffer from love, but this is a sweet pain. Even Jupiter could not resist this magical power, so love was interpreted as the most terrifying and powerful natural force; so it has always been hailed as a symbol of love. Once his arrow penetrates the hearts of young men and women, , will make them fall deeply in love.

Related legends

Legend 1

The goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, took her beloved son, the little cupid, dressed up to attend a party. Luxurious banquet. In this banquet, all the participants are gods, which can be called a "feast of gods". The goddesses are all more gorgeously dressed than the last, and no one wants to be outdone by others. As for the male gods, each one holds a wine glass and talks in groups. The naughty children could no longer hold themselves back and started playing hide-and-seek. As the whole banquet gradually entered its climax and everyone was intoxicated with the delicious food and fragrant drunkenness, an unexpected guest suddenly came and ruined the atmosphere of the entire banquet. This uninvited guest has a very ferocious appearance and an evil heart. The purpose of his appearance at the banquet is to ruin the banquet. Obviously, he has achieved this goal. He reached out and overturned the table with food, threw the potted plant into the pool, and frightened everyone present with his terrifying expression. Everyone began to run around, and the originally beautiful banquet turned into a panic. Screams and children's cries could not be heard. At this time, Aphrodite suddenly discovered that Cupid was missing. She looked around nervously, ignoring the existence of the uninvited guest. Venus searched every corner of the banquet, and finally found the already-chicken girl under the piano. Cupid was trembling all over, and Aphrodite couldn't help but hug Cupid tightly in her arms. In order to prevent Cupid from being separated from her again, Aphrodite then thought of a way to tie the two people's feet together with a rope, and then turned into two fish. In this way, she successfully escaped from this terrible situation. banquet.

Legend 2

The Bible seems to have foreseen the beautiful boy and staged a play of butterflies and flowers. According to legend, there was a king and a queen who had three beautiful daughters. The youngest, Psyche, was especially famous for her beauty. Venus was very jealous of her and ordered Cupid to punish her. However, as soon as Cupid saw Psyche, he fell deeply in love with her and made her his wife. Psyche lived a prosperous life in the temple, but because she was a mortal, she could never see Cupid's face. For this reason, she was very 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. After she lit the oil lamp at night and saw Cupid, she realized that he was actually a handsome boy like a lily (lilies represent a hundred years of good marriage). Cupid was awakened and ran away angrily. The palace and gardens disappeared, and Psyche found himself lying alone in the wilderness.

Cupid

Psyche looked for her husband everywhere and came to the temple of Venus. In order to destroy her, the god of love assigned her many difficult and dangerous tasks. The last task is to ask her to give an empty box to Proserpine (Queen of Hades) and bring back a box of beauty from her. Along the way, a voice kept guiding her on how to escape various death threats, and warned her not to open the box after she retrieved it. Psyche overcame various difficulties and finally completed the task. On the way back, her curiosity drove her to open the box. What is inside is not beauty, but the sleeping ghosts in hell. It escaped from the box and possessed Psyche, turning her into a sleeping corpse. Cupid found Psyche asleep on the ground, so he grabbed the sleeping ghost from her body 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 butterfly fairy, the female version of an angel. In this way, Psyche and Cupid finally got married.

Legend 3

In ancient Roman mythology, Venus, the god of love and beauty, and her son Cupid, the god of love, were attacked by monsters by the river. Quickly jump into the river and turn into two fish to escape. Probably because they were afraid that mother and son would be separated, there was a belt connecting the two fishes, and together they formed the constellation Pisces. The ruler of Pisces is Neptune, which is Pasiton, the brother of Zeus, the god of the sea in Greek mythology.

Legend Four

Venus and Cupid were once chased by the giant Typhon. They both jumped into the Euphrates River and transformed into fish bodies to escape. Minerva (mineave, another name for Athena) turned the fish into stars and flew them to the sky to commemorate this event.

Legend Five

One day, the gods saw that the weather was fine, so they held a banquet by the river. The music-loving gods happily sang and played musical instruments, and the atmosphere was quite lively. Suddenly there was a sharp cry. It was the monster Jie Fan with a hundred snakes growing out of his shoulders and huge wings.

The gods saw something bad and fled in all directions. Zeus turned into a bird, Apollo turned into a crow, Hera turned into a cow, Jiusinus turned into a goat, and all the gods fled in the form of animals. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, and her son, Cupid, the god of love, transformed into fish and escaped into the Euphrates River. At that time, they decided to tie their tails together with a ribbon and never separate, so they successfully escaped from the monster. The mother and son ascended to heaven with their tails connected and never separated. This is the origin of Pisces.