Miscellaneous Myths: Eros and Psyche
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2017
- Happy valentine's day, people! In celebration, let's take a look at a tale as old as time - Eros and Psyche!
This myth has been adapted in a million different ways, and the structure recurs in folklore all over the world - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl has to undergo X taxing trials to earn the hand of boy, girl gets boy. Oftentimes, the boy also transforms from a hideous or animalistic form into a beautiful one when the girl completes her tasks.
This could be considered a way of balancing or equalizing the marriage - it's not one-sided, because after the boy pursues and obtains the girl, the girl in turn pursues and obtains the boy.
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My favourite part of the myth is when Psyche is trying to drown herself and some nymph goes up to her, says "Excuse me, get your depressed vibes out of my river" and decides to help.
"get out of my swamp"
O N I O N S ! ! !
sucks_socks onions?
Layers
Mine was how even the other god's are like "You chill."
Might I point out that (if Psyche hadn't screwed it up) Persephone just causally attempted to assassinate Aphrodite.
I wonder if a story about the two fighting over the same dude had something to do with that.
Burnblast277 It could also be that goddess beauty is mortal to, well, mortals.
I like to think that Persephone’s beauty is ‘The Beauty in Death’
I'm pretty sure that the sleeping draught Persephone filled the box with was only deadly to mortals; if Aphrodite had opened the box, she just would've been conked out for the rest of the day.
In the version of the story I read, the box didn't contain death, just Sleep (capital S).
Psyche: "You put murder in a box?"
Persephone: "I thought Aphrodite was supposed to open it."
Hades: Don’t worry dear we’ll get her to pay for what she has done.
@@codysonic1 hades:"casually takes the long list of what she did
@@TheFi3ndthe long list that is also next to the long list of Zeus’s wrongdoings
@@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether and poseidons and athena
@@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether and also ares war crimes
Eros: Wonder who the poor lady I have to compel to fall in love with a monster is
*sees Psyche*
Eros: *Oh no, she’s hot*
Look if she was cursed to fall in love with a monster then the monster would likely treat her well. Aphrodite fumes that she was supposed to be killed and eaten.
Eros: Look, she’s in love with the hydra. Done.
A: Goooood
*Cut to two weeks later*
A: SON DID YOU MAKE THE HYDRA FALL IN LOVE WITH HER?!
Eros: No, why?
A: HE IS PROPOSING TO HER!
E: What.
Hades: And this way Aphrodite is beaten.
Fates: We approve. She needs to be taken down a peg. Also we didn’t know the hydra was a helpless romantic.
@@samuelthegreatoo Persephone: You’d be surprised of the things you learn listening to the rumor mill, girls.
Eros: Who’s the monster that has to fall for this girl?
(Sees Psyche)
Eros: The Monster is ME!! (Stabs self “accidentally”.)
(Later)
Psyche: I have to take a peak at this monster & kill it if it’s a threat.
(Sees Eros)
Psyche: OMG! He’s So Hot! (Stabs Self “accidentally” with Arrow and levels affinity with Eros to 200%)
Flame: I agree!! (Burns Eros).
@@samuelthegreatoo it could never happen with the hydra, tho, since it is an instance of the "foreigner" trope that includes python, typhon, vrtra, grendel, tiamat (tehom in the bible). They can't be given redeeming qualities because that would stop the colonization drive that the indo-european cultures were based on.
@@samuelthegreatoo The only problem with the Hydra is the poison.
Psyche: Hey there cutie, do all 9 of your heads need a kiss?
Hydra: Oh yes! No, wait a minute--
(Psyche gets poisoned and dies)
Hydra: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Aphrodite: Ha ha!
moral of the story:
Don't be hot in ancient Greece
I mean she did become a god in the end
But also don't be ugly because you might be left on a mountain to die
Also, don't be smart, don't be too good at anything, don't get between two or more gods having a disagreement, and don't try to weasel out of your deals with the gods.
Just avoid the gods in general.
@@poankiyu7664 Not a good idea either, because then they might take offence to the fact that you are trying to avoid them.
And then there's... Cupid. We don't like to talk about them.
*shoves Rome back in it's drawer*
blue's gonna be mad
Actually roman Cupid was somewhat terrifying.
....
Just not the little love baby.
no idea where that thing came from.
@@lahlybird895 what do you mean terrifying? I would like to know more
@@pancakeandwaffle4849 ok,
Maybe my source isn't accurate.
But RiordanVerse cupid...
Yeah he scared me.
Makes the valid point that Cupid and thanitos(death) are oftain mistaken and [q~"]one another.
Because love and death are very similar.
But Death is sometimes kinder
I think your gowing to need the whole cabinet for Rome.
A Greek mythology that involves love that DOESN'T involve incest, leaving your potential lover behind, and/or PERMANENT DEATH? IMPOSSIBLE!
BUT the most Meta-Blasmaphous Part is that ZEUS does NOT BANG, *even with the literal god of love involved*
What about Perseus
and the fact that it's Greek and doesn't involve rape?? *cue to crowd gasping*
No FR THO
@@zodiac5403 rightt
“Why don’t you just kill her?”
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about sending a message. If she simply dies one day, people will still remember her as the most beautiful person/thing to have ever lived. Aphrodite needed to smear her name and preferably face through the mud while she lives. Ruin her image. Make no one remember her being hot
...So why not use her godly magic to make her ugly, and THEN kill her?
@@RapidFyrez Because “we do a lil bit of trolling” is funnier than doing it the simple way
@@ShibuNub3305 lol
why the fuck do people remember killers and call them then
oh my god it's still just like high school
Kinda ironic how the mythos of Eros aka sexual/romantiv love is one of the few myths in which Zeus could keep it in his pants.
Yeah cause Eros was too busy with this myth.
Lol
If I remember correctly Zeus was scared of Eros.
Zeus, now that Eros is locked: "Strange, I suddenly don't feel horny anymore."
Probably because Aphrodite had Eros locked up lol.
So...
Psyche did all four tasks, went to the underworld, and died _while pregnant?_
*Dang.*
I didn't even think about this, holy crap. And here I am, pregnant, barely managing through some of my workdays 😂
Kinga Kristóf Those work days are YOUR four tests.
Me and Seph were really impressed when she got down here for that box.
She was seven months pregnant when she went to the underworld
Talk about comitment,
...
Also child endangerment
“She’ll fall in love with a monster that even the gods fear.” Technically the Oracle wasn’t wrong, Eros/Love IS indeed a force that even the gods fear.
Technically speaking, are Oracles ever “wrong” about anything? There are literally an infinite number of ways that prophecies can manifest, and whatever negative fallout occurs usually lies with those who interpreted them incorrectly. It sounds like a Catch-22, I know, but even Oracles are not omniscient, or else their prophecies would be rendered in a much more understandable way.
@@Hallows4 I don't believe they were ever wrong, no
The oracles being always right and their prophecies being fundamentally inescapable was one of the MAJOR themes of greek mythology. So many stories are about trying to escape a prophecy but inadvertently fulfilling it, or attempting to avoid one way of fulfilling a prophecy but in the end what you did was the actual prophesized end.
Yes
@@JRexRegis i think ultimately they themselves dont know the full story about their prophecies nor even when theyre gonna happen. and perhaps theres many ways that they could happen regardless but they will. its the whole ''fate is inevitable'' thing which is a common trope even outside greek myths.
@@Hallows4 yeah, prophecies tend to be kind of pointless, they're either self-fulfilling, or they take to the Nostradamus school of being so vague you have no clue what they're talking about until the thing already happened.
Hermes to a fuming Aphrodite on the wedding day: You know I haven't seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself.
PFFFT HAHAHA
Lmao
Stolen from Disney.
why hermes tho? also, aphrodite definetly took that flower
@@eravern it's a reference from the disney movie Heracles
“Eros flies back to Aphrodite to nurse his minor burn” XD I swear, this is every child when they fall
And there was also the new myth. Eros is a little bitch.
Eros is a mama’s boy big time 😂
Who is his father? Like I know how it happened balls and such but by technicality who would be his dad?
@@malachiroberts6198 Ares is his dad
@@whyamihere523 His Roman form Cupid is the child of Mars and Venus but Greek Eros has 3 origin stories: He was a Protigni born of Chaos and urges his siblings to procreate and caused the birth of The Titans and made Orunus jealous of his children, He was born of Aphrodite moments after she was born of the sea foam from Orunus's testicles touched the sea alongside his twin brother Himeros (The God of Lust) or he emerged from the same sea foam as Aphrodite did with his brother just as infants unlike Aphrodite and she raised them like sons. In Roman Mythology Cupid, Erotes and Mors were born of Venus and Mars. Cupid is Love, Erotes is Lust and Mors is death. The Roman's didn't like the idea for Feminine Beauty being born from testicles, a prime symbol of masculinity in Rome as castration was a punishment to strip masculinity away as the ultimate humiliation.
"Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite will be a *grandmother.*"
"Oh my me that's hilarious!"
I mean that's literally what happened
@Sjwaria Law but that would make Zeus a great grandfather since Eros is the son of Ares in this story
it is hilarious
@@megabladechronicles962 you really think Zeus is going to care about one more relation in that way because he won't it's Zeus you'd be happy to have another great grandkids are some mod.
@@megabladechronicles962 that is not true we don't know his dad some people assume ares but a lot of people think Hermes or ouranus.
Love how the representation of the human mind keeps trying to kill itself
That's...pretty deep actually. Something to ponder.
Don't ya just hate it when being human isn't easy
tbf she was very depressed because she lost her one and only love due to some stupid decision led by bad people and was tasked with unreasonably dificult challenges.
it goes even deeper huh.
Nothing more human than that
Because she found love after a life of solitude and then she lost it.
Wait- a happy ending? In GREEK MYTHOLOGY??? And to top it off, Zeus was involved and DIDN'T absolutely ruin everything? That's a miracle right there.
And it's why this is one of my favorite Greek myths.
The miracle is that Zeus didn't somehow get to Psyche before Eros.
@@justaguy2985 I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
That's the power of love for ya
Yup, you won't find either often at all in Greek stories
A... a happy myth? With justice? And civil, good marriage? Is this legal?
And also attempted murder. Do not forget the attempted murder.
@@Attaxalotl Not only attempted murder, but also regular murder
@@SophiaAstatine That too.
@Fahd The King impossible
New headcanon that they meet with Hades and Persephone regularly to have brunch and just chat together as the only functional relationships in the Greek pantheon.
You know someone is being pure evil in greek mythology when Zeus actually becomes helpful.
I kind of believe this is the only myth where Zeus is useful
Lol
@@nataliagarrid he's always useful because for better or for worse he causes the story to happen. Helpful is another matter entirely
So dam true.
Darkhorsearmor o m g I’ve never gotten a comment to 1k and THAT WAS SO SATISFYING
I love the karmic punishment that Aphrodite goes through for this whole story; she literally tries to ruin Psyche's life repeatedly, but accidentally gets her own son to fall in love with Psyche, and by the end of the story, not only is Psyche not dead, *she's immortal, and lovingly married to her son.*
Talk about a yikes in-law
I like that the whole "Gods are totally sick of Aphrodite being an ass" thing ultimately leads to Persephone opting for _murder._
I love that Persephone intended to send Aphrodite a box of straight-up murder.
And probably trap her in the underworld.
I mean...can you blame her?
Aphrodite is kind of a dick
......literally-
I can see that happen in Lore Olympus tho-
Boopus Noopus The Great I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who imagined that.
Well considering the Trojan war was the fault of Aphrodite, an event that upped the workload on her husband and generally annoyed him, as well as other things she's done to annoy both her and Hades, yeah I can't blame Persephone for trying to kill Aphrodite
Fun fact: Psyche has butterfly wings after she gets ambrosia’d because the word “psyche” means both “soul” and “butterfly” in Greek, presumably depending on the context
Ohh so that’s why one of Thanatos’ symbols is the butterfly
also i guess nectar. And butterflies are nice
And that's why Psylocke from the X-men often got a pink butterfly in front of her face when she used her telepathic abilities (back in the 90's when she was still a telepath. She later switched it for telekinesis due to convoluted comic stuff. I dunno if they've changed it again. Haven't been able to catch up with X-Men in a while).
It's also the word that originates "psychokinesis" from it's greek letter.
Butterfly soul is what I got from that
This should be a Disney movie. One like sleeping beauty and Cinderella. Really.
1. Beautiful lonely princess
2. Malicious adopted parent
3. Assistance from various wildlife
4. One of them is locked up and the other has to go through ridiculous trials to get to the trapped one
5. All about love, literally
6. Three act structure
It literally wrote itself for you Disney. Make it happen.
EDITS:
7. Magic (how did I forget this one)
this myth was the inspiration for beauty and the beast and as you know Disney already made beauty and the beast into a Disney movie so
I may just adapt this to a play or screenplay tbh bc everyone's geard of them but most people don't actually know their full story
Make this the same universe as Disney's Hercules
The story is actually kind of similar to a lot of telling stories Cinderella, especially the, you have to sort grains in less than a day but your good some animals helped you out.
@@davidhwang5838but they could work around that by not focusing on the beauty and the beast esque part, instead they could have it focus on the trials Aphrodite gives Psyche
I like that one interpretation of this myth can be that the human soul has to contend with the trials of attraction and indecision before making a commitment. Psyche overcomes the challenges Aphrodite (sexual and visual temptation) poses with help from Hera (marriage, commitment) and Demeter (agriculture, fertility, a mother) and finds her way to happiness with Eros (true desire) producing Hidone (joy). Perhaps an outdated concept if tied too closely with marriage, but I think it could be boiled down to mean the human soul will struggle, but you can overcome with help and resolve to find your happiness.
I think you’ve cracked it dude the hidden meaning behind this myth!
YOU ARE A LEGEND
... This makes my theory that it was an allegory for princesses marrying into foreign nobility make even more sense tbh
Aphrodite: you tried to kill me?
Persephone: you can’t kill a god, the death curse would just make you look older and plumper
Aphrodite: why I’ve never had anything terrible done to you!
Persephone: oh it wasn’t personal it’s just that the thousands of souls you caused the deaths of wanted revenge. By the way, during psyche’s brief visit she asked me to give this to you
Aphrodite: oooo pretty box what’s inside?
Persephone: you’ll find out
what's inside? REVEEEEENGEEE because like far as I can tell Hades and his wife are like the only really reasonable gods who don't actively fuck people over without reason
@@sarafontanini7051 not all the gods want to fuck people over some of them just want to fuck people.
hypnochonk Zeus: how about both?
@@baieon6716 i was actually talking about Zeus but yeah pretty much
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 Honestly as much as people rag on Zeus, he's really not that bad of a father/grandfather.
"More beautiful then Aphrodite!"
"Aw, that ain't good..."
That aint *god*
probably actually a good thing
psyche doesn't ship literally everyone
when I heard that: *FUCK*
at least Zeus didn't F up
Yep...she's so screwed.
4:26 you know there is a problem when even Zeus help you out and it not because he want to sleep with you but because he actually want to help
It reminds me of a late night host during the fight with Al Qaeda: "When CANADA starts bombing you, you have to ask, 'Am I being a d***?''"
"As soon as she opens the box, it turns out that the only thing in it is murder."
I guess Hades' rather twisted sense of humor when it comes to doing favors for others has rubbed off on Persephone.
Nah, persephone had that kind attitude before she was even greek
@@ADAJ342 Turns out, it’s part of why Hades thinks she's great. A similarly morbid sense of humor.
Besides, she thought it was for Aphrodite, and figured knocking her out cold for a few days would be a good prank.
@@shadowldrago guess humor IS a part of a good relationship, even twisted ones
@@NoName-in3sx I suppose so. I think it helps that since Aphrodite is immortal, it probably WOULDN'T have killed her.
"Oh my god. It's just like high school."
True statement is true.
That moment when you realise it’s just 12 high schoolers sharing a game of sims
Terrible Writing Advice made a similar comment when he talked about constructing hierarchies...
They totally need to collab with him.
@@f.i.r.e.5119 what video
Aidan GRA
I think it’s this one:
m.czcams.com/video/iqVa8gP-d9s/video.html
(Start from around the four minute mark, play for about 50 seconds.)
Yeah basically 😅
I love how Eros and Hades are the most loyal husbands ever
Is it strange to suggest that the animations for every video seems to resemble a little bit somewhat like anime/manga?
I mean Eros is the better husband, hades had an affair with a nymph, then turned her into a tree
Meanwhile Zeus is less loyal then the praetorian guard
@@celiaccrab6952 nah minthe got turned into a mint plant by Persephone your thinking of daphne who got turned into a laurel tree cause apollo pissed off eros.
Especially Hades, who knew the literal God of Hell was a great husband!!
Eros and Psyche is honestly my favorite greek mythology love stories cause it doesn't involve incest, murder, or r*pe, and Psyche and Eros truly did love each other
Wow... a Greek myth that ISN'T about rape!? and actually has a happy couple that consensually choose each other from the getgo!?
where has this been in my life?
You forget about Andromeda and Perseus, Dionysus and Ariadne
I mean, there's still the whole "magical arrows forcing people to fall in love" thing that goes in that direction
@@PolishAxolotl perseus story is weirdly not horrible
And Zeus *GASP* doesn’t bang _anyone!?_
AND acts as a responsible ruler of the gods, resolving disputes and judging with fairness!
Only now I realize that Eros and Psyche is the first version of Beauty and the Beast.
Yeah, B and B was modeled after it. I personally like the original story better.
I guess this is what they meant by tale as old as time
@@aflyingdorito208 considering that some versions say Eros was the firstborn son of Chaos, yeah, literally tale as old as time
Considering that B and B is 4,000 years old (it was an oral tale until finally written down in the 1700s), I'm not really surprised.
It's actually a lot closer to East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I only read one version of that fairy tale, but there were a lot of similarities with the plot.
Wait what? A Greek myth where Zeus is helpful, the people who convince the protagonist to break their word are punished for it, the protagonist is forgiven for their mistakes, and it ends happily and is still an enjoyable story? WHAT!?
I know, this is WAY more like the plot to a Disney Princess movie. The greeks were BIG on tragic endings and MALE protagonists. Psyche actually got a sweet deal being one of the few FEMALE Greek heroines. Oh. And becomes a Goddess at the end too.
@@PlanetZoidstar Yeah, I mean honestly I'm surprised Disney went with the myth of Heracles instead of this one for their Greek Mythology movie. This would fit their bill _way_ better.
@Benjamin Klaassen Ah but then you run into pop-cultural views on these things. Heracles (or Hercules at least) has the best name recognition. Meanwhile poor Eros is mostly remembered as a chubby baby. Hard to fight against that to tell a love story.
@@GriffinPilgrim Fair point, but still.
Zeus wasn't actually a d*@k in most stories... It's just that his d*@k caused way more problems than it should have, lol.
The butterfly wing motif probably comes from how butterflies are symbolic of the human soul in a lot of cultures. Which is rather perfect for Psyche, obviously. Wings also tend to represent freedom so it also probably represents the freedom of being in godly form and with her lover. I don't know if the butterfly = soul motif is the case in Greek culture, but in my opinion, if the shoe fits wear it. Lmao.
THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING MY INTERPRETATION!!!!!!!! I always thought it was something along those lines but wasn’t completely sure until I found your comment - YOU’RE A LEGEND!!!!
Butterflies did represent Thanatos.
Look out Pandora’s Box of Troubles, here comes *PERSEPHONE’S BOX OF MURDER!*
I just love how she worded it for some reason.
yes, absolutely
Eros: MOM IM SERIOUSLY FINE STOP TORTURING MY GIRLFRIEND
Aphrodite: MOTHER KNOWS BEST
Darth Xader And then you see Rapunzel
Rapunzel: Stop torturing my boyfriend!
Mother Gothel: Mother knows best child!
Listen to your mother, it’s a scary world out there.
I thought they were married
Lily Ye this scene happens before that happens.
Okay
I gotta say-
Eros being a god that every other god fears, including Zeus the king of gods, is honestly hilarious and sort of badass-
The power of love is so strong, that it makes death, lightning and the ocean tremble in terror. XD
Thanatos or Hades? Because Hades is just the God of the underworld. Not death.
@@burnttoast.2017 I'd say both, since apparently both would be susceptible to Eros' power.
That's actually incredibly inspiring and hopeful isn't it?
Eros and Thanatos are actually commonly depicted as similar looking in statues and whatnot. They’re sort of considered to be counterparts and in their primordial forms they’re both children of Nyx
Yodeling Ram makes sense as Nyx is the only other entity that Zeus WILL NOT MESS WITH! Seriously one of her kids pulls a prank on Zeus and goes to her when he comes after him, when confronted with the goddess of night Zeus does a 180 and runs back to Olympus
Her sisters didn't just fall off a cliff, btw. See, Zephyr, in this myth, works for Eros, more or less. So, he was charged with transporting them, just like he did Psyche. Except, as the wind, being invisible, he overheard their scheming, and was like..."yeah, not on my watch." So, he sorta just...conveniently missed his pickup time that he usually ran like clockwork. They jumped, expecting him to whisk them away again. He did not. They fell on some very pointy rocks from very high up. He then proceeded to tell nobody, possibly not even Eros (though Eros presumably already knew, bc he figured out long ago that they were bad news, anyway. He likely didn't ask questions bc he didn't want implicated in the murder of his in-laws. Of course, this is speculative headcanon. But, it makes sense, given the original text. It's also vaguely alluded to that Psyche set them up to be in a dangerous scenario, knowing full well what would happen, but feigning ignorance, bc "fuck my sisters, they caused my hubby to get mad at me").
Yeah, he serves Eros because he thrust a discus into Hyacinth's head, killing him instantly. He did this because he was jealous that he was with Apollo, hence why Eros became his master
@@thedragonwarrior5861 I don't see the correlation between those myths.
Haha Aphrodite!
The girl she spent so much time and effort trying to torment is now immortal, married to her son and the mother of her grandchild....
You just gotta love what a middle finger that is to her 😂😂😂
That was a surprisingly upbeat ending for a story about the Greek gods' love life.
Leo Ryff Well, it would be really shitty if the god of love didn't get his own happy ending.
Leo Ryff lol true. Knowing Greek mythology I was expecting something much worse.
Some versions just end after the bit where Eros feels betrayed. That's the thing about myths. They're not consistent.
Rachel Moody that's actually untrue. Not only is the myth of Cupid & Psyche extremely late/at the tale end of antiquity, its first and original iteration was recorded in a novel "Metamorphoses"-not an oral tradition. This story actually has a single absolute account with no variants. While there are images of Psyche & Eros depicted centuries prior to the novel, we have no historical documentation of this particular myth (or any like it) of the two prior to the novel in the 2nd century AD.
At the very least, this is what all my professors have drilled into me & I have yet to come across any documentation to the contrary.
[if anyone actually has a source of older myths or versions, please tell me where I can locate these because I would be absolutely fascinated to read all about them. I love all the distinct & varied myths]
Nobuko Watanabe I read a version in one of my English classes that instead of the trials taking place when Eros runs off feeling betrayed Psyche goes in search of him, and as punishment for betraying her son Aphrodite turns her into an owl-cursed to be in search of her lost lover forever, but never finding him. In that version including the whole soul and love meaning it was also supposed to be an origin story for the owl. (Like the Athena and Arachne story was an origin story for spiders.)
"my god it's just like highschool" I AM DEAD LOLOLOL
HilariouslyScary smells like Greek myths and angst
Its damn truthful though!
HilariouslyScary I know so funny!! 😂
HilariouslyScary IKR?
HilariouslyScary ikr
4:45
Eros: Mom I'm seriously fine! Stop torturing my girlfriend!
Aphrodite: Mother knows best.
Me: So....is Aphrodite related to Gothel? I mean their both obsessed with their own beauty and they both try to kill their kids' love interests.
What if Mother Gothel was inspired by Aphrodite? I mean, a lot of stuff in enterprise nowadays is inspired from mythology - mostly Greek mythology as well. The most obvious example would be Beauty and the Beast
@@shookyscousin oh my goodness I was imagining Aphrodite singing mother knows best you are so right
@@wasifabul2545
Great minds think alike!! 😆😆
And that's why Aphrodite should be the villain of a movie. I'm getting a little tired of Hollywood using Hades and Ares as villains and think Aphrodite was actually way more evil than either of them.
@@legoking6165 Or maybe just make a film on Ares abduction it behella funny to watch
I love how this whole mythological story is a metaphor basically saying that “loving yourself is the only way bring you happiness” it’s just beautiful and I love it 😊
Oh I see why Zeus didn't bang with Psyche, Eros was being locked up and well like she just said, Zeus's banging is kinda controlled by Eros.
Also she was pregnant so it would be kinda weird
The problem is that the Greek Gods ARE what they control. Poseidon doesn't just control the Mediterranean, he IS the Mediterranean Sea. If he dies, the sea goes away. If Oceanus dies, the Atlantic ocean goes away. So if Eros dies, NO ONE will want to have sex anymore.
@@ethnichellenismincaliforni8215 So when Pan finally kicks the bucket we're all fucked?
If Eros dies then no one would love each other, just bang others out of anger
@@ethnichellenismincaliforni8215 Not all greek gods personified their domain. Hades for instance isn't death-That's Thanatos. Apollo isn't the sun, that's Helios, and Apollo just pulls him across the sky. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are overseers of their domain, not their embodiment. *Some* gods, like Eros, do in fact represent what they're a god of, similar to how nymphs are literally trees and rivers.
@@youtbuecraert Well... in ancient Greece someone did announce that Pan was dead so... 😓😓😓
(Red talked more about this in Hermes' vodeo, just saying)
You know you're being unreasonable when even Zeus hops on the bandwagon telling you to cut that shit out. Also, if Psyche represents the human soul and she's prettier than Aphrodite, the literal goddess of physical beauty, does that mean Psyche in and of herself is a reference to loving the person on the inside instead of for just their looks?
That’s actually genius!
Hit the nail on the head.
no idea but i very much like this interpretation, it is therefore canon for greek mythology/history/language
hm, so Eros falls for her because a woman's soul is the most beautiful thing?
Wow, that’s a great interpretation! I really like it, and it makes a lot of sense.
4:52 so you’re telling me that Persephone wanted to kills Aphrodite?
Persephone is the best
Persephone: Aphrodite is such a bitch. Wish I could see the look on her face when she opens the box
Hades: I'm sure Dionysus will tell us all about it next time he visits
Persephone: I feel bad for that girl tho. She doesn't deserve all the shit Aphrodite is putting her through
Eros: *dramatically kicks down the door* Hey why'd you kill my girlfriend?
Persephone: wait what?
Eros: Psyche opened the box and the murder you put in it killed her
Persephone: *starts crying* what no I didn't mean to! I didn't know she'd open the box!
Hades: *consoles his wife* shhh there there it'll be okay *snaps fingers to summon Psyche*
Psyche: *rushes over to Eros to hug him* I'm so sorry I betrayed you trust can you forgive me
Eros: of course baby I lo-
Persephone: *bear hugs Psyche* I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!
Psyche: It's okay. I understand the impulse. Aphrodite is such a bi- *looks over at Eros* can be a tad difficult
Hades: I'm sure Zeus will be happy to make you into a goddess to keep Aphrodite from pulling anymore of this shit. Just ask him for some Ambrosia and he'll have much more leverage to tell her to stop
Psyche: Okay. Wait so I can leave
Hades: Yeah sure I don't care
Eros: thanks guys! *grabs Psyche and flies to Olympus*
Hades: And that's why I don't like visiting Olympus
You forgot the part where Eros says; Yeah, you can call her a bitch, I don't care
can't blame him
If only Orpheus could just leave with Eurydice like that, then he wouldn’t have been ripped to pieces… but then again, him being ripped to pieces did help him spend eternity with Eurydice, so I guess that could count as a happy ending, sort of?
@@shookyscousinYeah, I'm picturing this scenario ending with Eurydice saying, "What the hell, man! Orpheus played his little heart out. Even the Furies were moved to tears! Why couldn't you let me just go like she did?"
@@daviddaugherty2816 hades:1st off,you literally died naturally by a snake,psyche literally got torn asunder by accident via god ppwer. ...that and honestly i didnt expect him to look back.
Eurydice:... fair enough.
Than:and that's what happened before psyche became a god.
Zagreus:...noted.
Jason: **Has to go on a whole adventure with major mythological characters to get some golden fleece so he can be king**
Psyche: **grabs it off thorn bushes nearby**
Proof that psyche is smarter than jason
@@aleaf1494 And Hercules. She knocked out Cerberus with drugged cake, while in true Hercules fashion, he chose brute force.
@@aleaf1494 It was a specific Golden Fleece that was from a ram that was sacred to Ares. Also, it still had the hide attached.
@@Amy_the_Lizard Actually, 1) in some versions Heracles brought treats too for Cerberus, 2) like her the other tasks someone helped her by giving her that advice along with pointing out that she needed coins the pay Charon.
@@Amy_the_Lizard Heracles didn't have to just get past Cerberus, he had to bring him up to the land of the living, although maybe Cerberus would have been a little more cooperative if Heracles had brought a treat!
Wow. Zeus was actually helpful and the sweet cinnamon roll that is Persephone attempted to kill Aphrodite. Awesome.
Rogue Viper Aenius?
@@Mysteri0usChannel i want a book about this
@@edarddragon We also need fan art, and after that, maybe some good ol' rule 34.
@@Mysteri0usChannel I like the way you think 😉
*TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!!!*
Neat. You forgot to mention that Psyche was able to get to the underworld without Cerberus mauling her to death since she gave her some cake.
Fun fact
The word for soul or psyche also means butterfly. So that could be why she is represented with butterfly wings so often.
Psyche: Will I ever find true love?
Oracle: Yes, but your love will be a terrible monster that even the gods fear.
Eros: My spidey sense is tingling...
You see the joke here is that When you think primordial you think monster and Eros had a double at the beginning of time and Eros can and has played Zeus like the worlds horniest ukelele because Zeus can’t keep it in his toga for 10 minutes
Something else was probably tingling too, if you know what I mean.
I thought women weren't allowed to consult the oracle?
@@magda8496 If I'm remembering the myth correctly I'm pretty sure it was her parents asking the Oracle if they will ever find a husband for their daughter
@@AznKage yeah, makes sense. Thanks
More beautiful than Aphrodite. Yeah, those four words are never the start of anything good.
Steven Flaningam props for using the right form of than
No offence, but here is a few plot points missed (not that important, just minor clarification).
-Psyche's parents are the ones that went to the Oracle of Delphi.
-Unlike most Greeks, she openly accepted her fate and stood on the cliff waiting to be snatched (with witnesses as if it were a ritual). When nothing happens, Psyche be like, "Fuck it" and jumps off, THEN she is caught by Zephyr.
-Eros only spoke to her at night, and she was left confused by the servants.
-The sisters always hated Psyche, yes, but they always spoke shit behind her back, so she has no clue.
-The burn was incredibly severe, to the point that Eros was bedridden for days.
-Aphrodite (pissed af) starts doing everything she can to hunt Psyche down. Meanwhile, Psyche cries on a riverbed contemplating suicide, and Pan the god of nature, comes in, notices she is lovesick and suggests that she prays to Eros for help (facepalm), leaving her to cry harder. Pan leaves in the face of awkwardness, and Psyche takes his words to heart and becomes determined to find Eros and apologize. But first (as you touched on) Psyche schemes revenge. Convinces one of her sisters that Eros broke up with her for this, and wants to marry her. The sis dumps her husband, runs to the cliff, and jumps. Psyche does the same to the other sis.
-On her journey to Aphrodite's palace, she sees abandoned shrines of Hera and Demeter all dusty and dirty, she takes time to clean them. Mind you, she always respected the gods. And she even tried to stop people from calling her the Goddess of Beauty before the Eros shit. Anyways, both Goddesses offered to grant one wish. Psyche asked one of the obvious wishes (forgot which) and the Goddesses apologized for not being able to do shit because of Aphrodite's blood lust.
-After Aphrodite gave the first sexist and impossible "perfect wife" task (grain sorting), DEMETER sent the ants to help.
-The spirit that gave advice of the tree wool, was sent by Hera.
-Styx Water is also deadly cold.
-Zeus helped because Eros heard Aphrodite give the bullshit challenge of Styx water in a bucket, he asked Zeus for a favour. Zeus helped because he was terrified of Eros, and Eros did favours for him before. Eros did not go himself because he was in miserable pain and suffering from the oil.
-Psyche was on a tower (for directional reasons I think) and contemplated jumping. Eros puts his spirit in the tower to help Psyche a bit.
-Persephone was pissed af that Aphrodite roped her in her mess. So puts some deadly oil in the box to spite Aphrodite, but warns Psyche not to open it.
-Psyche was self-conscious and worried Eros would call hate her, especially because of the state she was in.
-Eros felt her suffering, and in his pain, flew to save Psyche.
-The gods declared that curing her was impossible in her current state, so Hera and Demeter suggest making her a god. All gods vote yes, and Aphrodite reluctantly says yes because everyone else did (mainly because Eros is goddam terrifying af. Ask Apollo).
Don't forget the Lame Ass Driver Aphrodite sent to slow Psyche down
we did it
we found the guy who responds in the "oh you're a ____ name every ____" memes
@@lifeenjoyer9699 what
@@electroninja7419 lol, in hindsight that was hard to understand
just look up "Oh, you're a kirby fan? Name every Kirby Lore."
@@lifeenjoyer9699 Ohhhh. lol. I honestly didn’t expect everything to be textbook accurate/complete. I just wanted some information put out there which made the events less straightforward and random which personally, makes stories more enjoyable to me.
Red:"My teacher was an absolutely GORGEOUS man
~with a beautiful accent and the most piercing of eys~
The teacher:✨ your essay is overdue✨
Wait, wait
Psyche: *keeps trying to kill herself*
Spirit: Yo, those sheep might kill you so you should get fleece off the trees.
Psyche: Oh dang, ok! Man, could you imagine how terrible it would've been if I'd accidentally gotten myself killed?
🤷♂️
If you gonna die, die on your own terms.
@@scottylilacleona9193 Only I get to kill me! If you wanna kill me, you'll have to take my life from my cold, dead hands!
Kevin T that is such a bizarre power move you have no idea.
I imagine your opponent staring at you in absolute confusion.
@@scottylilacleona9193 oh but i do
Holy crap! Zeus helping a woman get laid instead of himself?!
MADNESS
Solqueen86 A beautiful woman Zeus didn't bang himself?! More madness?!
Zeus going soft these days
Eros, the part that is aphrodites son, is also the son of Ares, who is Zeus's son, so Eros is Zeus' Grandson.
ReverseUnicorn
Zeus: OK, my powerful grandson, the God of Love is getting older now. Time to get him LAID. She’s gotta be princess, because Gods always get that royal booty. And she’s gotta be hot. Like, hotter-than-his-mother-hot.
And so, Psyche was born!
LMAO
Can we just appreciate how Zeus says "Oh my me!" at 5:18? That is the best god saying ever! Lmao!
I'm just noticing this myth has a lot of similarities with some classic fairy tales. Obviously, there are some Beauty and the Beast similarities but there are also a couple little details that remind me of other tales too. Mainly, I think of Cinderella with Aphrodite throwing the grains of the ground and telling her to sort them.
I think the main similarity is the Evil Stepmother trope, rather than the Beauty and the Beast. That is more like Prince Lindworm.
@@pulsar2049 I'm thinking in terms of classic fairy tales where Beauty and The Beast and Prince Lindworm would be grouped into similar categories because the tales follow a similar pattern. The direct similarity to Cinderella is that in one version of the tale the stepmother throws grains and lentils into the ashes and tells Cinderella to sort them, similarly to this tale. None of them are exact comparisons but there are lots of similar details and story structures that line up which is what I found super interesting. I was learning about this in one of my classes at University so I've been noticing and connecting a lot of these patterns together recently without intending to.
@@madisonm.4535 Yeah that is correct, they do have similar patterns. I didn't find Eros and Psyche similar to Beauty and the Beast, because Eros wasn't cursed to be a monster. It's probably because Apollo was pissed off and tried to deter Psyche.
Eros and Psyche's story is actually less Beauty and the Beast and more East of the Sun and West of the Moon, fairy tale wise. That tale is also about a woman who marries someone who she's not allowed to actually see, who then tries to see him anyway which causes him to leave her when she gets caught and then has to perform a series of tasks in order to be reunited with him.
Eros: Well, this burn is healed, I'm off
Aphrodite: To do what?
E: Talk to Psyche about why she would betray my trust like that so we can repair and hopefully improve our relationship
A: You've been talking to Hades again haven't you? I told you that he's got it out for me!
E: Why, because of all the mortals you've tormented and that really big war you've caused because you wanted a fucking apple?
A: That's it your grounded!
E: I HAVE MY OWN HOUSE!!
E: Not to mention that I think it was an honest mistake on her part, and you feed me lies.
Hades: One of these days I’m going to fuck her up. Hmmm... Hey Thanatos? New orders: Don’t take someone who Aphrodite tries to kill. I wanna see her face when she realizes she can’t make more tragic romances. Oh yeah that musician guy who just lost his wife because Aphrodite is trying to make another trashy love story? Put her back.
Orpheus, twenty minutes later: Hades, can I have my wife back?
Hades: Dude I literally sent her back up 20 minutes ago. Just go back the way you came.
@@samuelthegreatoo Why do I read Hades' voice lines in the voice of Hades from Kid Icarus Uprising
@@macoud12 I read it with Hades from Disney’s Hercules
I love this.
I imagine Apollo foaming at the mouth at Eros' happily ever after.
Apollo: hey Eros why cant any of my lovers become a god and not kill themselves.
@@Guian_6 Eros: oh I don't know why don't you try and not scare the shit out of them and make them jump off a cliff just to escape you (or not pick the ones that are TOO hot bc we all know how that ends up)
@@Guian_6 Because I can't keep up with you, when it comes to archery.
@@neutralpie420
Apollo: "Maybe get better at hitting moving targets!"
Eros: "How about you stop giving me moving targets!"
(Artemis suppressing a laugh remembering she keeps switching the arrows in Eros's quiver)
I read that Apollo sang at the wedding, so maybe he held no grudge?
Imagine trying to humiliate someone you've never met for jealousy over physical characteristics she didn't choose and accidentally making her your daughter-in-law
your drawing of Eros might actually be my favorite OSP drawing no cap
agreed
"My god, it's just like highschool" I actually cried from laughing to hard and inhaling my soup
Rinrya Kayako thats so "soupy"
Livia Castaño calm down would ya?
SAME XD
Zephyr: C'mon I'll totally catch you!
Psyche's sisters: Okay, CATCH US!
Zephyr: Psych!
Psych!-e
@@eastia7518 I was waiting for someone to reply that!
Jealous bitches had it coming.
Why was this line not in Percy Jackson's greek heroes?
-e
The funny thing about eros being little bit clumsy is that there's a version of the Persephone and hades myth where eros "accidentally" strikes Persephone while she's lost in the underworld lol
"Your essay is overdue" had me wheezing
Combined with the romantic sparkly background, it made me start wheezing :D
Eros: "Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite's gonna be a grandmother."
Zeus: "Oh my me that's hilarious"
I AM DEAD
amethyst_ cat Aphrodite: but-
Zeus: *SIT DOWN*
he must really want her to be a grandma
Ha
Yes Zeus, that is hilarious
Same. I laughed so hard I almost cried.
amethyst_ cat RuN
Eros: Zeus If You Make This Work Aphronedite's Gonna Be A GRANDMOTHER
Zeus: OH MY ME
THAT'S HILARIOUS
Aphrodite: But--
Zeus: SIT DOWN
Sometimes my brother can be cool *SOMETIMES*
omg.
THAT IS PERCY JACKSON Narration
ROFL!!! That's an awesome take on it. LOL
Finally a Greek myth where a relationship between a god and a mortal DOESNT end up with the mortal dying a tragic death.
I mean she did die
Sadly, yes. But she lived!
Technically she did die a tragic death. Eros just made the gods fix it and make her immortal.
This story is so nice for a Greek myth. Also I love the designs red makes for the gods. "Oh my god I'm glowing! Why am I glowing!?"
A note for your “woman marries monster and turns out he’s a hot guy” statement during the credits. Someone told me once the reason those stories are as recurrent and wide spread as they are is because in many cultures women rarely had say in whom they married, and often ended up wed to some way older douche who just wanted to get some and had money to pay the bride’s price to her parents. So those stories were a kind of psychological cushion to help women cope with the idea of being sold off to some monster or asshole, because “he’s not really a monster! He just needs true love to heal his heart and he will love you back!” It makes those stories vary creepy when read that way.
Wow , that makes me really sad...
Oh shoot, thats dark
Wow
Explains all those "sold to Harry Styles" slow burn fics.
That's so fucked up...
"Your essay is overdue."
How romantic.
I'm getting the butterflies already
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Can't ruin it so I gotta comment
You should've heard the way he SAID it!
Lol
@@lasersnquasars6156
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As much as I love how Aphrodite in this myth is the single most petty pick-me girl in the world and winds up getting dunked on when the girl she's trying to smite winds up marrying her son and becoming an immortal, the best part in my opinion is actually that Persephone sent Psyche back up to Aphrodite with a box full of death, hoping to royally fuck up Aphrodite's day.
Actually Aphrodite was happy at the end since now that Psyche is with Eros means she's staying in olympus and humans will now start worshipping the real god of beauty lolzz.
Butterflies were a symbol of the soul for Greeks, so that’s why it’s also a symbol for Psyche.
Also, I’m convinced that Persephone put murder in the box as revenge for stealing Adonis or some other petty thing.
I feel like Aphrodite could easily have solved this entire thing by going to Psyche and suggesting that she use her godly powers to de-pretty her a bit so she'd be able to actually get a date instead of this whole mess. Psyche would be happy with that, she'd get a normal happy life, and Aphrodite is the fairest in the land again... why is Aphrodite every jealous girl rolled into a goddess?
Fr she is just a mean girl given too much supernatural power
The Greek gods all collectively share 3 brain cells. Athena and Hephaestus often hold one, leaving the others to fight for it
You expect A GREEK GOD to be reasonable? You must be new here
@@marinaaguas9219 tbh a lot of the Greek goddesses are Karen’s
@@venom_colada1512 Dionysus never has it, Hermes steals it from time to time, zues doesn't even know it exists, posedion is too busy worrying about his Cyclops children, Hades is just sort of chilling with Persephone and a buncha shit is happening with that braincell
Aphrodite: I can't believe my own son did me like that!
Zeus: Ok, *grandma.*
Props to Zues for actually keeping it in his pants this time, total coincidence that this myth also has a happy ending.
@@soribannon441 due to the fact Eros was busy in the whole ordeal :v
Ok, Auntie*
@@whytho1534 I meant it more as a "Aphrodite is a grandma to Hedone" joke
The Beauty and the Beast parallel is actually a bit deeper if we look at the original story where Belle ALSO has two sisters that go to visit her and are like "wtf is up with this weird boyfriend who keeps you living in luxury?"
So… we ever gonna talk about the fact that Persephone was gonna give Aphrodite a box full of murder?
Was she trying to kill the goddess of love? Is Persephone’s beauty lethal? Was it a secret pact between the two goddesses.
I NEED ANSWERS.
Now I'll never be able to get past them trying to murder each other on the regs as a kink. Thanks for that.
"She might even be prettier than Aphrodite"
-Hades, Lore Olympus
2018
Silver Speed y̥ͦ e̥ͦ s̥ͦ
Aphrodite:WHAT
Of course.Aphrodite isn't the prettiest goddess.She got jealous of girls who was prettier than her
I just got back from reading tat
Poor Kore.
Actually, you missed a couple things. One being Psyche was pretty fucking pissed at her sisters because they were the reason her marriage fell apart. So she goes to the kingdoms her sisters married into. She says that her husband was Eros and he was done with her. She tells her sisters individually that he asks for her by name. They both go to the cliff that Psyche jumped from to get to Eros, hoping that he would take them. He didn't. They died. Also, Psyche was trying to find an Aphrodite temple to pray to her. So on her way, she finds three temples that are very unkept. She cleans them up, and they turn out to be the temples of Athena, Demeter, and Hera. She asks them each to help her find Aphrodite, but they all say no. However, they do help her. When Aphrodite makes Psyche sort the grain, Demeter sends the ants to help her. When she has to get the golden wool, Athena disguises herself as some reeds and tells her to get it from the bush. And when she goes to the River Styx, Hera gets Zeus to send the eagle. Another thing you missed, was that Psyche was pregnant during this entire experience. She was pretty fucking badass.
She mentions the pregnancy.
I believe she didn't mention it because of time (and it would take more drawings to explains every tiny detail). Also, there are various versions of the myths.
Yeah.. I love the part where all the sisters die lol
Sabrina Llorens true true
hi victor
the "tries to drown herself" came so out of left field I spat out the coffee I was drinking
Oracle: *to Psyche* Your lover will be a monster that even the gods fear
Meanwhile, on the top of Olympus...
Eros: *sneezes* Did someone just say my name?
"Zeus if you make this work Aphrodite's gonna be a grandmother"
"Oh my me thats hllarious"
Ok by this point im convinced the greek gods are just a bunch of bad trolls
She is thousands of years older than Zeus and Technically his Aunt (Oranus is her dad kinda?)
At this point, im not even suprised when it turns out the greek phanteon family tree
Is avtually a familty circle
Family is as family does
Petty petulant children is more like it
And not just the Greek gods its every God period
If all of mythology was real, half of the gods would be occupied with trying to make sure than the world isn't destroyed and the other half would be occupied with ensuring that the Greek gods behave.
Psyche means both "soul" and "butterfly" so that explains the butterfly wings.
I'm sure that something can be said about the fragility of beauty and the fleeting nature of life etc. but that might be overthinking it.
Katie Robinson Or at least a gnarly ass moth of some kind. depends on how things go down.
Where do you find that "psyche" means butterfly?
Oh, never mind. It's an *association* made by Darwin: With his interest in natural philosophy, Darwin saw the butterfly as an apt emblem of the soul because it began as an earthbound caterpillar, "died" into the pupal stage, and was then resurrected as a beautiful winged creature.
I'm not sure you *can* overthink a greek myth
omg thanks for telling me that it means butter fly no wonder
hmmm cool fact ties in with the myth
I really love coming back to this video and watching their story; the art is so pretty, Red’s voice is so comforting, and dialogue from Red(and the pictures text) is really hilarious. So glad I found this channel years ago.
Hades: It's a shame what happened to Orpheus. May he and Eurydice rest in peace.
Persephone: You did all you could to help him. Say, how about the next time someone comes to the Underworld on a quest for love, you let _me_ talk to them?
Hades: Good luck. This next mortal seems to have provoked Aphrodite. If _she's_ as angry as last time... that poor girl might become a permanent resident.
Persephone: Aphrodite, hm? That gives me an idea!
I love your interpretation of the myth that Zeus makes Psyche a goddess just so he can annoy Aphrodite with the grandmother barb. It's classic Zeus
Yes I also enjoy that.
Eros and Pyche on Valentine's Day? You guys are awesome......
For making me realize how actually lonely I am.Where is Aphrodite to transform a statue when you need her?
But that would require talent to actually make an attractive statue ...
WEISS!!!!
Weiss is Wifu man
Penny is mine, I do hope she gets rebuilt!
Spoilers x Fingers crossed man, PENNY 2.0!!
5:20 that ambrosia frame is the best thing ever and eros' expression is adorable I love these two
I love how they had multiple **types** of the word “love” because that way there’s less ‘pressure’ on the word (?). like “love” can mean anything from “I love you, bestie” to “I am in love with you” and it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes or you just add “platonically” so you don’t send the wrong signals. so it’s nice how they had different words for different kinds of love or affection 🥰🥰
"she went into the underworld with only 2 golden drachmas and 2 doggie treats while she was 7 months pregnant. Respect." -Percy Jackson
also, the box was filled with stygian sleep, aka, the essence of the underworld, so all Persephone technically did was breathe into the box
Edit: I am honored to be the second top comment!
So a box of die
"I give you air from my lungs"
Hey you've read the book that's cool
Hang on but Persephone isn't from the underworld she just lives there
So I think she got Hades to breathe in it
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 shes been there for a while now so I think she did it
What? A Greek love story with a semi-happy ending?
What a coincidence that it's the only one where Zeus didn't bang anybody.
Why semi-happy?
@@Ardito3709 She died
@@ellenzheng2155 But she's back to life....
@@Ardito3709 I mean yeah she came back to life and became a god too, but Hades probably wasn’t happy about it.
There's one more! Also the only other one Zeus didnt bang someone! WONDER WHY? THATS A HUUUGE COINCIDENCE HMMmMMMmmMMMm
mMmmMMMmmMMM
I read this story in a book once and the author described psyche as
‘Unattainable because she was perfect, perfect because she was unattainable’
“My god it’s just like high school” easily one of the most relatable sayings in the history of language
"...even more beautiful than Aphrodite- Oh... that aint good..."
Yep.
*It is never good* 7_7 that goddess gets anal when she's not on top of the pyramid
_my god it's just like highschool_
@@yesikanarvaez5027 To be fair, they all do.
Yeah, she's doomed.
"So Psyche low-key dies..."
*No matter how many times I hear it I always laugh!*
I would like to point out that Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, is the one who GRANTS PHYSICAL BEAUTY TO INFANTS WHEN THEY ARE BORN.
So, when Aphrodite is being a jealous bitch about someone being prettier than her, she is being angry at someone not only for something they have no control over, but something SHE HAD DIRECT CONTROL OVER. Which is especially heinous, because she was punishing Psyche for something SHE DID.
No wonder all the greek pantheon were looking at Aphrodite tormenting Psyche and saying "What the FUCK, Aphrodite?! YOU MADE HER THIS BEAUTIFUL, AND NOW YOU'RE TORTURING HER ENDLESSLY OVER IT?!" and proceeded to help the poor girl out.
When the ants sorted the grains for her, it was probably Tithonus, the god of insects, intervening in her plight. He would know a bit about having a god stand in the way of being with the one he loves over petty reasons, and he would probably empathize and help for that reason.
Tethys, who is a mother goddess and mother to many, would have been vastly angry to see Aphrodite continously and cruelly bullying a girl and trying to get her killed over nothing she did like this, and probably sent one of her Naiad daughters to tell Psyche to just gather the wool from the branches, since Aphrodite never said it had to come from the sheep themselves.
Zeus, who by this point was probably getting steadily more and more furious at how MONSTROUS Aphrodite was acting (there's nothing Zeus likes less than a monster), sent the eagle to just do the third task FOR her.
And when Persephone found out what the FINAL task was, she'd decided enough was absolutely fucking enough (not only was Aphrodite trying to get this girl killed, but she was trying to get ANOTHER GODDESS to kill her in the process of insulting that goddess by trying), and basically totally undermined the task to make it pie-cutting easy with help at every turn, and then filled the box with RAGING RETRIBUTION for Aphrodite to enjoy when she opened it.
No wonder in the end Zeus got involved at the last and basically told Aphrodite to sit the fuck down and leave Psyche alone or it was THUNDERBOLT time. For all his philandering and all his temper, Zeus is an otherwise pretty moral person, and while he'll tolerate the gods doing this kind of shit when insulted (directly or indirectly) or punishing hubritic actions (such as claiming to be better than a god openly, particularly when it's not true...), he will not tolerate them doing it essentially for KICKS and endlessly drawing it out like the Titans did.
I agree completely
This whole myth was basically her fault lmao
Can we take a moment and appreciate how good Red’s singing is at the end? Because’s it’s wonderful😊