Psyche goddess biography of christopher

"Breath, Soul." That is, "breath" or "the soul," occurs in the later times of antiquity, as a personification of the human soul, and Apuleius relates about her the following beautiful allegoric story.

Psyche was the youngest of the three daughters of some king, and excited by her beauty the jealousy and envy of Venus (Aphrodite).

In order to avenge herself, the goddess ordered Amor (Eros) to inspire Psyche with a love for the most contemptible of all men: but Amor was so stricken with her beauty that he himself fell in love with her. He accordingly conveyed her to some charming place, where he, unseen and unknown, visited her every night, and left her as soon as the day began to dawn.

Psyche might have continued to have enjoyed without interruption this state of happiness, if she had attended to the advice of her beloved, never to give way to her curiosity, or to inquire who he was.

But her jealous sisters made her believe that in the darkness of night she was embracing so