Cupid - the most famous symbol of Valentine's Day. This naughty little angel with a bow and arrows. Those men and gods, in which the arrow of Cupid falls, fall in love. In ancient Greece, Cupid was the analogue of the young son of the goddess Aphrodite, Eros. The Romans called him Cupid and they think that Cupid mother was Venus.
One legend tells the story of Cupid and Psyche. Venus did not like the unearthly beauty of Psyche, and she ordered Cupid to punish Psyche but instead Cupid fell in love with Psyche, and made her his wife. But since people can not look at the gods, Psyche did not know what it looks like her husband.
Psyche was happy until her sisters still have not convinced the girl to look at Cupid. Cupid chastised Psyche: he left the girl, and with it disappeared a beautiful castle, where they lived, and gardens. Psyche was left alone. In order to find her lover, she went to the temple of Venus. To destroy Psyche, Venus gave her some unrealistic targets, one more difficult than another.
Her latest assignment was to deliver the box to the underworld. Psyche had to get part of the beauty of his wife of Pluto, and put it in a box. During the trip, Vicky has repeatedly been on the verge of collapse. She was told that it is in any case did not open the box. But curiosity won cautious and Psyche opened the box. But instead of the promised beauty in a box was a dead sleep.
Cupid found her lifeless on the ground. It took her a dead sleep. Cupid forgave her, and the gods, admiring the power of love, Psyche, made Psyche a goddess
