EROS & PSYCHE

Psyche was a very beautiful girl, daughter of a king, and sister of two other very beautiful girls. As her two sisters married, no one dared to approach her and ask her to marry her thereby her parents went to the oracle of Delphi and decided with the consent of the oracle to sacrifice her. She was sent to a very high cliff where she was supposed to get married but she was abandoned. After some days of crying she was taken by a warm breeze to a beautiful place with a great castle. There, she slept on a bed in which her lover visited her all nights but with the lights off so she could not see him. One day, her sisters visited her with very envious looks and convinced her to turn on the lights when her love came at night, and she did so. And she found Eros, son of Aphrodite goddess of love, lying besides her. Feeling that she had betrayed him, he flies away. She looks after everywhere but she couldn’t find him. Her sisters heard about it and went on looking for his love, which ended in tragedy since both of them died at the cliff. At last, Psyche had to face the goddess Aphrodite herself. She is tested by Aphrodite, assigning her couple of impossible tasks, that with help she achieves. Showing her true love for Eros, Zeus converts her into an immortal and lives happily ever after with Eros.

SOURCES: http://library.thinkquest.org/26264/myths/tales/gods/site010.htm

http://ny.essortment.com/erospsyche_rvde.htm

Alejandra Ospina L.