About little Cupid

Cupid has always played an important role in the celebration of love, being one of the most common symbols of Valentine’s Day. He is known as a winged baby armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. Those whose heart is pierced by one of Cupid’s arrows are filled with a deep and burning love. Cupid is the name of the Romanian mythology, which is called Amor, his mother is Venus, goddess of love and beauty. In Greek mythology, Cupid is the name of Eros, the son of Aphrodite. Love story of Eros (Cupid) and Psyche was first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in the Golden Donkey novel, written in the second century and is considered a model of love that manages to defeat all hardships and vicissitudes.

Women jealous of mortal Psyche beauty, Aphrodite (Venus) asked his son, Cupid, to pierce its heart with an arrow tipped in gold, for Psyche fall in love with the most hideous person on earth. Eros has agreed, but was accidentally punctured in arrow and he fell in love with Psyche. Seeing all the praise Psyche’s beauty but no one wants to marry, her parents consulted the oracle, who told her go on a mountain top; because he’s not meant to have a husband dies, but an unearthly. Marshmallow God took her from the mountain and brought it into a beautiful valley, the castle of Eros, where the psyche to become his wife. But IIE was forbidden to know what it looks like her husband would meet only at night because, in the dark. Psyche’s sisters, envious, prompted her to light an Opait night to see if maybe she is married to a monster, Psyche heard them and saw that her husband is the god Eros, an extraordinary beauty. But a drop of oil on Eros woke up and upset that his wife had violated the commandment, the god disappeared. Desperate, his mother enlisted the help of the psyche.

Aphrodite subjected it to heavy testing, but with the help of aid from the animal world, managed to ignore the psyche well. Finally, Aphrodite sent her into the underground world, from Persephone to seek a bit of beauty, Aphrodite warned her not to open the trunk, but the psyche, willing to become more beautiful for her husband, succumbed to temptation and has lifted the lid. Hence, instead of beauty sleep has come upon her death. Hearing this, Eros took her on Mount Olympus and has enlisted the help of Zeus. Impressed by the two unbroken love, Zeus made her immortal psyche. The child of Eros and Psyche is Voluptas – god voluptuousness.