Psyche continues to search for her husband. Meanwhile, Venus finds out about the two and things get pretty heated. She finds where he is hiding out and basically tells him that he is worthless, that she is going to adopt a servant boy and grant him his powers, and that she will never grow to love a woman she hates, even when she is titled as her daughter in law. After her little episode she meets up with Juno and Ceres who try to calm her down with reason. However, the damage had been done and Venus insists that she is being ridiculed.
Venus and MercuryYou’re a mother and a sensible woman besides. Stop spying so keenly on your son’s pursuits, blaming his self-indulgence, scolding him for his love affairs — in short, finding fault with your own pleasures and talents in the shape of your handsome son. Source
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Venus and Psyche
You had one job Psyche. Actually you had many impossible tasks but honestly you didn't do them yourself. All you really had to do was not look in the jar. So when you completed everything you had to do, you greedily thought it would be a good idea to open the jar for yourself? Beauty was her curse to begin with and now she is doing things she was specifically told NOT to do..AGAIN. I just can't with this girl right now.
Oh she gets stung by something. Of course she did and now she's sleeping. Cupid finds her and completes her task. Upset by his mother's antics, he asks Jove for support. To which he agrees but only if he pays for another girl with outstanding beauty. During their wedding feast, Psyche was made immortal and their marriage was made legitimate. She also gives birth to a daughter names Pleasure. The story of Cupid and Psyche end and we come back to the band of thieves and the kidnapped girl.
The Escape
The robbers want to kill the donkey but it showed the courage of man and ran off. The captive girl helps him in their pursuit of freedom.
Man, Venus is such a cranky Goddess. How is she really supposed to be the Goddess of love and beauty when she is so ugly on the inside? She uses her servants Anxiety and Sorrow to torture the poor girl and threatens her unborn baby and Venus essentially beats her up. She then heckles the girl by telling her that the only way she can attract a man now is by hard work. Venus calls for wheat, millet, barley, poppy seeds, chickpeas, lentils, and beans into one pile and tells Psyche to sort them all out. But Psyche gets a break and the ants took pity on her and decided to help.
Psyche's Task/ The Third Task
Upset that she completed her task, Venus throws a loaf of bread at her and goes to bed. Meanwhile Cupid is still under guard, partly because of his injuries and partly because he is not to see his wife. The next day Venus gives her another task: obtain the precious wool from the sheep that glistens the purest gold. Psyche runs off but instead of completing the task, she tries to commit suicide (is this a reoccurring theme? see Adam and Eve) but instead a simple reed instructs her to wait for the sun's heat to fade and the flock to settle.
When Psyche came back to Venus in triumph, the Goddess was not unnerved. Instead she gives Psyche her third task: fill a jar with the liquid that feeds the swamps of Styx (river that forms the boundary between earth and hell). When she sets off into her journey, Psyche can see how unbelievably dangerous it would be. Serpents hissed their warnings of death and the terrain was jagged and inaccessible. Psyche, again receives aid to complete her task. Providence, Jupiter's royal eagle filled the vial for her.Then while their savagery is assuaged and their temper eased, just explore the trees in the wood nearby, and you’ll find the golden wool clinging here and there to the bent branches. Source
Jar of Beauty/ The Sleep of the Dead/ The Wedding Feast“Simple and innocent as you are, do you really expect even to touch, never mind steal, a single drop from that most sacred and cruel of founts? Jupiter himself and all the gods fear these Stygian waters." Providence
You had one job Psyche. Actually you had many impossible tasks but honestly you didn't do them yourself. All you really had to do was not look in the jar. So when you completed everything you had to do, you greedily thought it would be a good idea to open the jar for yourself? Beauty was her curse to begin with and now she is doing things she was specifically told NOT to do..AGAIN. I just can't with this girl right now.
Oh she gets stung by something. Of course she did and now she's sleeping. Cupid finds her and completes her task. Upset by his mother's antics, he asks Jove for support. To which he agrees but only if he pays for another girl with outstanding beauty. During their wedding feast, Psyche was made immortal and their marriage was made legitimate. She also gives birth to a daughter names Pleasure. The story of Cupid and Psyche end and we come back to the band of thieves and the kidnapped girl.
The Escape
The robbers want to kill the donkey but it showed the courage of man and ran off. The captive girl helps him in their pursuit of freedom.
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