With his aid she at last succeeded in overcoming the jealousy and hatred of Venus she became immortal, and was united with him for ever. Psyche would have perished under the weight of her sufferings, had not Amor, who still loved her in secret, invisibly comforted and assisted her in her labours. There her real sufferings began, for Venus retained her, treated her as a slave, and inmposed upon her the hardest and most humiliating labours. Psyche's peace was now gone all at once, and after having attempted in vain to throw herself into a river, she wandered about from temple to temple, inquiring after her beloved, and at length came to the palace of Venus. This awoke Amor, who censured her for her mistrust, and escaped. In her excitement of joy and fear, a drop of hot oil fell from her lamp upon his shoulder. But her jealous sisters made her believe that in the darkness of night she was embracing some hideous monster, and accordingly once, while Amor was asleep, she approached him with a lamp, and, to her amazement, she beheld the most handsome and lovely of the gods. Psyche might have continued to have enjoyed without interruption this state of happiness, if she had attended to the advice of her beloved, never to give way to her curiosity, or to inquire who he was. He accordingly conveyed her to some charming place, where he, unseen and unknown, visited her every night, and left her as soon as the day began to dawn. In order to avenge herself, the goddess ordered Amor to inspire Psyche with a love for the most contemptible of all men : but Amor was so stricken with her beauty that he himself fell in love with her. Psyche was the youngest of the three daughters of some king, and excited by her beauty the jealousy and envy of Venus. 28, &c.) relates about her the following beautiful allegoric story. PSYCHE (Psuchê), that is, "breath" or "the soul," occurs in the later times of antiquity, as a personification of the human soul, and Apuleius ( Met. Sometimes a pair of Pyskhai (Psychae) were depicted-the second perhaps representing their daughter Hedone (Pleasure). Psykhe was depicted in ancient mosaic art as a butterfly-winged woman in the company of her husband Eros. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
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The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to his hidden palace. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. PSYKHE (Psyche) was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. Soul ( psykhê) Psyche and Cupid-Eros, Greco-Roman mosaic from Samandağı C3rd A.D., Hatay Archeology Museum
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