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In her surprise, she inadvertently pricked herself with one of Cupid’s arrows (which he really needs to learn to store away more carefully). What she saw was the most resplendent, beautiful being her eyes had ever spied upon. Psyche Showing Her Jewelry to Her Sisters, Marry-Joseph Blondel, 1815–16.Īrmed with a dagger, and carrying a lamp, she decided to discover the identity of her mysterious lover… Unfortunately, Psyche was trusting to a fault, and took her sisters’ counsel.
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They insinuated that she should at least catch a glimmer of her lover and while they made their appeal sound as if it came from a place of concern, truth be told, they wished only sorrow open their beautiful sibling. She had been fated to marry a monster, perhaps one that would devour her and her baby. Instead of supporting her, they brought up the Oracle’s premonition: Unfortunately, her sisters were envious of her palatial accommodations, not to mention her fine jewelry (see image below). He allowed Zephyr, the West Wind, to bring her sisters to visit her. Psyche longed for home Cupid knew this, and eventually granted her wish, in his own way. When we left Psyche in part 2, she was in a peculiar place: the villa of an unknown lover, pregnant with his child. In part one, we saw the cast of characters: primarily, they are Cupid, Psyche, and Cupid’s jealous mother, the Goddess of Desire, Aphrodite.