Venus & the Goddesses:
- Cupid goes to Aphrodite's (Venus) house in pain from the burn and a seagull tells Aphrodite that he had married Psyche. This made her very mad.
- She threatens to take away his wings and arrows and to give them to a deserving servant, because he was such a disgrace.
- She asked Hera and Demeter to help find Psyche, but they asked her why she treats Cupid as a child and will not allow him to love another woman.
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| (Venus Chides Cupid, by Giordano) |
- Aphrodite kept looking for Psyche and Demeter found her tending to her temple.
- Demeter wouldn't protect her though and neither would Hera, because they don't want to upset one of their family members.
- Venus asked Mercury (Hermes) for his help and he spread a message offering a reward of five kisses from Venus in exchange for Psyche. This made every man on the planet search for her.
- Psyche walked to the door of Venus' temple and Venus called her a fool and captured her.
- Venus had Psyche flogged and tortured.
- She threatened to not allow the baby to be born.
- She mixed a bunch of seeds (like Cinderella's Step-mother) and made her separate them. However, ants began to help her sort them when they saw the impossible task.
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| (Venus Assigns a Task, by Giordano) |
- Aphrodite was told to bring golden fleece from a valley from golden sheep. However, these golden sheep tear people apart.
- She went to jump off a cliff and a reed prevented her suicide and told her to take fleece from the branches of trees while the sheep slept.
- She was then told to collect water from the river styx.
- The source was up a steep rock wall surrounded by fierce serpents.
- The water was event telling her to leave.
- Jupiter's eagle took the vial for her and filled it.
- Psyche was told to bring a jar to Persephone (Venus asks that she send a days beauty)
- She travels to the breathing hole of Dis and is told of the ferryman on river styx, traps and how to distract Cerberus.
- Then she completed this task and when she made it to the surface she thought that she deserved a drop of the beauty.
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| (Psyche in the Underworld, by Hillemacher) |
- She opened the jar and was put into a sleep as deep as death.
- Cupid was finally healed and flew down to her and pushed it back in the jar.
- Cupid asks Zeus for help and he says yes.
- Zeus called all the gods and told them Cupid was going to wed Psyche.
- Brought Psyche and gave her ambrosia to make her immortal.
- She gave birth to their daughter, Pleasure.
- Story goes back to the old woman and robbers were going to kill Lucius later that day, because he was useless to carry things.
- Lucius tried to escape, but the old woman was holding his rope and preventing him from leaving.
- The slave girl fought her off, mounted Lucius, and they ran off into the woods. She is promising him gifts the entire ride and the story ended.
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