Psyche and Eros

Third post of Greek mythology. Yay! Psyche had been born with a physical perfection so complete that people worshiped her instead of Aphrodite. Since Aphrodite doesn’t take people being prettier than her very well, she had just the plan. She called the god of love, Eros, to shoot Psyche with one of his arrows so she will fall in love with a monster. While Psyche slept, Eros flew down to Earth to shoot her with the arrow. But as soon as he saw her he was mesmerized to see how beautiful she was, that he pricked himself instead. The next day, Psyche went to the oracle to ask if she will ever find love. The oracle says she will, sadly to a monster that even the gods feared. So, Psyche is taken to a cliff, so her monster boyfriend can find her, then Zephyr, the west wind, carries her to her monster boyfriend’s huge palace. As soon as she steps in, she finds out he’s invisible. One day Psyche’s two sisters pay her a visit and see all the luxury she lived in and got jealous. Her sisters talk to her about her boyfriend and tell her that he might be a serpent demon that might kill her and her unborn child (PS: she was pregnant). That night Psyche sneaks into her boyfriend’s bedroom with a lamp and a knife, but as soon as the light touches him she saw none other that Eros himself. While Psyche was looking at Eros the oil lamp wants to get a better look as well and splashes on him. With oil splashing on to Eros, he wakes up and flies away. Aphrodite, now twice as mad at Psyche, pays her a visit. If you want your boyfriend back you will have to complete four impossible tasks said Aphrodite, Psyche agrees, and Aphrodite throws a big pile of different seed on the ground and says, you must sort all these seed by morning or you fail. Psyche starts sorting the seeds until sunrise comes near. As Psyche starts to give up, a clan of ants take pity on her and sort it for her. Aphrodite, raged at Psyche, gives her the next task. “You must get me some golden fleece from the sun sheep across the river”, said Aphrodite. While Psyche was crossing the river, a local spirit tells her that she must be careful because the sun sheep could kill her if she tried to shear some of them, and it was a better idea to just gather the fleece that got caught on the thorns. As soon as Psyche finishes gathering the fleece and showing it to Aphrodite, Aphrodite gives her the next task. She gives Psyche a glass and sends her of to get her water from the river sticks, which is a problem since there was a big gorge filled with several dragons. This time, Zeus himself takes pity and sends an eagle to do it for her. Lastly, Aphrodite gives up on trying to get her to kill herself and make Psyche go to hell and ask Persephone to put a drop of her beauty in the box and give it to Aphrodite when its there. Again, with lots of help, Psyche makes it to Persephone and asks for the beauty. Persephone agrees and puts some in the box. While Psyche was returning to Aphrodite, she realized that if the box has pure beauty, she might as well use some to make herself look nicer for her boyfriend. As Psyche opened the box all that was there was DEATH, and Psyche collapsed. Eros flew down to Psyche, all healed from his wounds of betrayal, and gives her Ambrosia to make her immortal. Psyche and Eros are properly married and when their kid was born, they named her Pleasure.