Cupid, the Roman god of erotic love and beauty, wasn't always a pudgy baby. He started out as the Greek sex symbol, Eros. Eros actually had two different types of arrows. The first type was the one we're all familiar with--the type that made you fall in love. The second type, however, made you hate the first person you saw.
The fact that Cupid has a sense of humor is made evident by the story in which he shoots the god Apollo with a love arrow so he falls head over heels in love with a nymph. Cupid then shoots the nymph with a hate arrow. So lovesick Apollo chases the nymph around in a scene straight from a Pepe le Pew cartoon.
Another proof of Cupid's sense of humor is tiny men who marry giant women and then try to put their arms around them at church.
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ha ha - ok we saw one of those weirdo couples in DC. i thought it was very appropriate that i was in a museum when i saw them because a museum is where you go to look at things that you don't see in every-day life, i.e. dinosaurs, ancient sea animals, pictures of the first ladies, etc. and then i got to see a very short small boy holding hands with a very tall and large girl. ask megan. it's true
ha ha ha you're on a blogging roll. I like it. there was a really stupid show on I saw one time...seriously I only watched it once, called valentine and it had all the gods in modern time...and eros was one of them...but instead of a bow and arrow he now had a gun that did the same thing...but his mother aphrodite, I think..., took it away from him, cause he was abusing his toy. They were supposed to save peoples love lives and stuff...it was really stupid.
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