Cupid is synonymous with love and that means that as Valentine’s day approaches we definitely need to be aware of the God of Love called Cupid.

How Do you identify Cupid

The boy with wings and having the bows and arrows is definitely Cupid.

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Mythology For Romans he is the Cupid and son of Venus and For Greeks he is Eros, the son of Aphrodite who is the goddess of love and beauty

Arrows – The emotions of love and the feeling of love that we have within and when arrows strike we tend to have those emotions stirred so that we fall in love. He has two kinds of arrows one is gold headed for falling in love and one is lead headed for falling in hatred.

The story of Cupid and Psyche is heart wrenching story or true love and desire.

Venus the mother of Cupid was jealous of Psyche and ordered her son to punish Psyche but instead  Cupid fell in love with Psyche.But Psyche was a mortal being and was forbidden to look at Cupid. On the insistence of the wishes of her sisters she looked at Cupid and that act caused Cupid to leave her.

As she was all alone she while wandering came upon a temple of Venus and Venus was trying to punish her so she gave a box to Psyche and asked her to go to underworld and get the beauty of Proserpine , wife of Pluto into it.

She was give strict instruction about not opening the box but temptation overcame her and she opened the box which caused her to be in deep slumber

Cupid found her and took her sleep and put it back in the box.This undying love of the Psyche with Cupid caused her to be forgiven and she also became a goddess.

Cupid has definitely now a part of the valentine’s day history