CUPID AND PSYCHE

BY: SCOTT MINER

&PAIGE SNEED

CHAPTER 5: CUPID AND PSYCHE

• A KING HAS THREE DAUGHTERS• PSYCHE, THE YOUNGEST, IS THE MOST

BEAUTIFUL OF THE DAUGHTERS• SHE IS EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN VENUS

VENUS

• JEALOUS OF PSYCHE’S BEAUTY

• SENDS HER SON, CUPID, TO MAKE PSYCHE FALL IN LOVE WITH AN UGLY CREATURE

CUPID

• CUPID ENDS UP FALLING IN LOVE WITH PSYCHE

• SO, HE PREVENTS HER FROM FALLING IN LOVE WITH ANYONE

ORACLE

• PSYCHE’S FATHER GOES TO AN ORACLE• THE ORACLE TELLS HER TO GO WAIT ON A

HILLTOP AND HER HUSBAND WILL COME FOR HER

• SHE GOES TO THE HILLTOP AND WAITS FOR HER HUSBAND

• THE WIND PICKS HER UP AND FLOATS HER TO HER PALACE IN THE SKY

CUPID AND PSYCHE

• SHE LIVES A GREAT LIFE IN THE PALACE, BUT NEVER GETS TO SEE HER HUSBAND IN THE LIGHT

• HER SISTERS COME TO VISIT HER AT THE PALACE

CUPID AND PSYCHE

• THEY BECAME ENVIOUS OF HER LIFESTYLE

• THEY WERE PLOTTING HOW TO RUIN HER

• ONE NIGHT, SHE DECIDED THAT SHE WAS GOING TO TRY TO SEE HER HUSBAND

CUPID AND PSYCHE

• SHE GOES TO HIS BEDROOM• SHE HAS A KNIFE AND A LAMP• IF HE IS A MONSTER, SHE PLANS ON KILLING

HIM• SHE GOES TO HIS ROOM AND SEES THAT HE IS

THE BEAUTIFUL CUPID

CUPID AND PSYCHE

• IN HER SURPRISE SHE ACCIDENTALY SPILLS OIL ON HIM

• HE GETS UP AND RUNS AWAY AT FULL SPEED WITH NOT ONE WORD

VENUS’S PALACE

• PSYCHE GOES TO VENUS’S PALACE TO LOOK FOR CUPID

• VENUS PUTS HER THROUGH FOUR TASKS

FOUR TASKS

• 1ST TASK:– SORT A PILE OF SEEDS

• SHE IS ABLE TO GET IT DONE BECAUSE A GROUP OF ANTS HELP HER

TASKS CONT’

• 2ND TASK:– GET FLEECE FROM THE

GOLD SHEEP• SHE IS GOING TO KILL

HERSELF, BUT A GREEN REED TELLS HER THAT SHE CAN FIND WOOL THAT A SHEEP SNAGGED OFF ON A THORNBUSH

TASKS CONT’

• 3RD TASK– FILL A FLASK WITH

BLACK WATER FROM THE RIVER STYX• SHE REALIZES THAT SHE

NEEDS WINGS TO GET IT, SO AN EAGLE GETS THE WATER FOR HER

TASKS CONT’• 4TH TASK:

– TAKE A BOX TO THE UNDERWORLD AND ASK PERSORPINE (PERSEPHONE) TO FILL IT WITH SOME OF HER BEAUTY• SHE GETS TO THE

UNDERWORLD• SHE GETS THE BOX FILLED,

BUT NOT WITH BEAUTY• THE CONTENTS OF THE BOX

CAUSES HER TO FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP

THE END

• CUPID WANTS TO MAKE PSYCHE IMMORTAL• JUPITER USES AMBROSIA TO MAKE THIS

HAPPEN• CUPID AND PSYCHE GO TO HEAVEN AND LIVE

HAPPILY TOGETHER