Ψυχη Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love. Their
Ψυχη Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love. Their daughter was Hedone, the goddess of pleasure. Psyche was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite so she commanded Eros to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psyche she must never gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Psyche searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which ended in a journey to the Underworld. Psyche was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple was married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.Psyche was depicted in ancient mosaic art as a butterfly-winged woman in the company of her husband Eros. -- source link
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