Cupid, The God We thought We knew

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We all are familiar with Cupid, the Roman god of love, lust, and Desire. Normally this God is resented as a baby with wings and a golden bow and arrow. But according to mythology, this is probably not the actual facts, Cupid is indeed the Roman counterpart of the Greek God of love Eros. Eros is the son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. There has been a lot of debates on who is cupid's or Eros's actual father, and most of the time he is predicted to be the son of his mother's lover Ares the Greek God of War. In today's real-world interpretation, the sayings love and the war goes hand in hand as it originally originated here.

According to Mythology the love enforced by cupid's arrows are much harsher than the one produced by his mother's blessing. The explanation here is that as he is the son of the goddess of love and god of war, as Ares represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, his arrows generally generate an all-consuming uncontrollable desire and love for another of Cupid's choice. And that is why most Olympian gods even the powerful ones are scared of him.

Although we know cupid as a baby or young boy with tiny white wings they are actually called Erotes, miniature winged love gods, they sometimes accompany cupid. Originally Cupid is represented in Greek mythology as a lissom, muscular young man with brilliantly bright white wings, and he always wore a simple white frock with a bow and quiver slung over his shoulder. He has straight black hair, blood-red eyes, and a face that was handsome but also harsh "as strenuous to look at as a spotlight". His voice is described as lush and intense, but also equally threatening like the silence before a storm.

Cupid's or Eros's love is not what we actually think it is, instead this love is the enforced one which the people in this real world are used to receiving. This love is neither unconditional nor is it selfless because it doesn't generate from nothing. Cupid's enforcement is very much similar to the love potion mentioned in the Harry Potter series, there it is designed as a shackle of love which blinds the other person without the persons own will, that he or she can never come out of it until the other person wants them to. According to mythology most of Cupid's curses had had a sad ending because the love did not generate from a person's own free will.

P.s, a lot of modern-day words are derived from various Greek and Roman syllables and here the word "Erotic" is derived from the Greek God's name Eros as he is also represented as the God of Erotic Desires.

~ Deblina Dube

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