The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue
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Published 2017-08-03
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Psyche was born so beautiful that she was worshipped as a new incarnation of Venus, the goddess of love. But human lovers were too intimidated to approach her, and Apollo recommended her father abandon her on a crag where she would marry “a cruel and savage, serpent-like winged evil.” But Psyche’s story ended up being much more interesting. Brendan Pelsue shares the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
Lesson by Brendan Pelsue, directed by TED-Ed.
All Comments (21)
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Mothers-in-law: Complicating their offspring's love life since mythology
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When someone says “Cupid and “ but doesn’t finish the sentence say psyche right now
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Gods: stabbed but okay Also gods: oil burn, I’ll just leave my pregnant girlfriend alone for weeks
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psyche: beauty is a curse also psyche: looks into to a box wanting to take some of presophinas beauty
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Where tf are all the ants at when im tidying my room?
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Man the Greeks love their impossible tasks
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Wait a minute you forgot the part that she was content to not know who her husband was, but she was tricked and persuaded by her jealous sisters
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"how can i raise a baby with a man she has never seen" ok but this is perfectly reasonable
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Psyche: “Beauty is a curse.” Yet she tries to steal/keep MORE beauty for herself.
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Narrator: they named her pleasure Baby: shimmies seductively
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Narrator: beauty is a curse Me being a potato: CoMe AgAiN
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Psyche's sisters actually poisoned her thoughts, but okay. Also, the ants were there because of Demeter, whose temple Pysche had cleaned on the way while finding Eros(Cupid). She also cleaned Hera's temple, so it wasn't a river god, it was a pile of reeds that told her the answer to the second task. There were actually four tasks, the underworld task being the 4th task. The third task was to get a pitcher of Styx water. Oh well. it was a good animation though, and I loved it.
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"And she, Psyche, and Cupid have been complicating people's love lives ever since." This explains everything.
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I think this is the first time there was a happy ending in an ancient myth
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I love how the gods don't say no to anything. They just give you a series of impossible tasks. How polite.
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The version I read, stated that psyche loathed how beautiful she was because it isolated her from the world. Cupid had fallen for her not just for her looks, but for the way she handled it: she didn't want to be beautiful, she just wanted to be loved for who she was.
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So, persephone dropped "sleep" when asked for her beauty because you need a "beauty sleep" to be like her ? OK
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"What should we name our daughter?" "hmm.. PLEASURE!" "sureeee"
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no one: cupid: and who am i? that's one secret I'll never tell... you know you love me. XOXO
