In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. He is also called Amor, Latin for love. Cupid - Cupid's lineage. There are differing stories about his parentage. Cicero provides three different lineages: son of Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), son of Mercury and Venus (Aphrodite), and son of Mars (Ares in Greek mythology) and Venus. Plato mentions two of these, and Hesiod's Theogony, the most ancient Greek theoography, says ...

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Cupid:

The Roman God of love. He carried a bow and arrows. Anyone touched by one of his arrows fell madly in love. Greek God Eros.

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There are differing stories about his parentage. Cicero provides three different lineages: son of Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), son of Mercury and Venus (Aphrodite), and son of Mars (Ares in Greek mythology) and Venus. Plato mentions two of these, and Hesiod's Theogony, the most ancient Greek theoography, says that Cupid was created coevally with Chaos and the earth. Throughout ancient mythological writing, there appear to be either two Cupids or two sides to the figure of Cupid. One is the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Venus. He is a lively youth who delights in pranks and spreading love. The other is a son of Nyx and Erebus ...

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Cupid (kew'-pid) is a natural satellite of Uranus. It was discovered by Mark Showalter, et al. in 2003 using the Hubble Space Telescope. It was named after a character in William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens. It should not be confused with the asteroid 763 Cupido. It was too dark and small for the Voyager 2 probe to detect it during its Uranus flyby. Because Cupid's orbit differs from Belinda's in orbital radius by only 500 kilometers, this satellite's orbit may be unstable [1]. Following its discovery, Cupid was given the temporary designation of S/2003 ...

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Holi:

IN DAYS of yore, there were communities of cannibals in India. They caused much havoc. They threatened the lives of many innocent people. One of them was Holika or Putana. She took immense delight in devouring children. Sri Krishna destroyed her and thus saved the little children. Even today, the effigy or figure of Holika is burnt in the fire. In South India, the clay figure of Cupid is burnt. This is the origin of the great festival of Holi.

From Hindu Fasts & Festivals by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Vasanta Panchami

This is an important bathing day. All Hindus observe it. It is also known as Magh Sukla Panchami as it falls in the month of Magh (January-February). This is the festival that marks the first day of spring.

From Hindu Fasts & Festivals by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Skanda Sashti

Lord Subramanya, the Supreme Being, who is the ruler of this universe, who is the indweller of our hearts, who is the second son of Lord Siva, who is the beloved of Valli and Deivayanai, who bestows boons easily on His devotees, who is the embodiment of power, wisdom, love and bliss.

From Hindu Fasts & Festivals by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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The tale of Cupid and Psyche first appeared as a digressionary story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD. Apuleius probably used an earlier folk-tale as the basis for his story, modifying it to suit the thematic needs of his novel. Read on its own, it is for the most part a mixture of straightforward fairy tale and parody. Other related archivesLucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass, fairy tale, folk-tale, novel, parod

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In painting and sculpture, Cupid is portrayed as a nude winged boy armed with a bow and a quiver of arrows. The traditional Christian depiction of a cherub is based on him. On gems and other surviving pieces, he is usually shown amusing himself with childhood play, sometimes driving a hoop, throwing darts, catching a butterfly, or flirting with a nymph. He is often depicted with his mother (in graphic arts, this is nearly always Venus), playing a horn. He is also shown wearing a helmet and carrying a buckler (perhaps in reference to Virgil's Omnia vincit amor ...

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In Hinduism, Kamadeva (Kama - carnal pleasure, deva - god), also known just as Kama("The love") and Ananga (the bodyless), is the god of love and a son of Lakshmi. He is called Kama Ananga ("Kama the bodiless") as well. He is a young, winged man who uses a bow and arrows made of flowers. He is also called as Manmadha or Manmatha("God of lust or desire") or Madhana or Madana("God of love") or Kandarpa("God of amour ...

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Amor has several meanings: Amor ("love") was also an alternate name for Cupid, the Roman god of love. He was equivalent to Eros in Greek mythology. The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor, the first such asteroid to be discovered. The Amor was a German car. Other related archives1221 Amor, Amor, Amor asteroids, Cupid, Eros, German, Greek mythology, Roman, car, near-Earth asteroids

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Psyche can refer to: In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person. A Greek word (also spelled Psykhē or Psukhē) which means either "soul" or "butterfly". psycho-, and psyche- are common English prefixes for mind or soul-related concepts. In late Greek art and literature, a goddess who is the personification of the soul; she is primarily known for her role in the story of Cupid and Psyche, best attested in Apuleius' novel The Golde

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Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical sculptor, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque art. Canova was born in Possagno in the Province of Treviso where his family had for generations been stone cutters; as a result and he learned to cut marble at a very early age. When only twelve years old he modelled a lion in butter, that wa ...

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Amor Vincit Omnia (known in English by a variety of names including Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love) is a painting by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), currently in the Gemäldegalerie (Berlin). The painting was created between 1601 and 1603, with the balance of scholarly opinion favouring 1601/02 (Marini 1602, Calvesi 1601/02, Cinotti 1601/02 or 1602, Gregori 1601/02). At this point Caravaggio was increasingly devoting his attention to Church commissions, a ...

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Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I. It is still uncertain how many plays were their joint work. In box office terms, they were very popular, and no effort was made at the time to keep straight who had written what. In old editions, as many as 70 plays were attributed to them, in default of more accurate information; more secure scholarship has cut that number down (dramatically, one might say) to a corpus of about 20 plays ...

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Bagrām (Also Begram, anciently Kapici or Kapisa) is an antique city 60 kilometers northwest of Kabul in Afghanistan, near today's city of Charikar. It was built at the junction of the Ghorband and the Panjshir valley, acting as a passage point to India on the Silk Road, towards Kabul and Bamiyan. Bagram - Origins. The city was destroyed by Cyrus, restored by Darius, and then fortified and rebuilt by Alexander the Great as Alexandria of the Caucasus. Begram then became one of the capita ...

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Lucius Apuleius (c. A.D. 123/5 - c. A.D. 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", is remembered most for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel The Golden Ass or, in Latin, the Aureus Asinus (where the Latin word aureus - golden - connoted an element of blessed luckiness). He was born in Madaurus (now Mdaourouch, Algeria), a Roman colony in Numidia on the North African coast, bordering Gaetulia; this is the same colonia where Saint Augustine later received ...

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Nandini (The Enjoying), in Hindu Mythology was a Divine Cow that could grant wishes. She is also referred to as Shabala in the tale of Vasishta. Nandini is said to be the daughter of Kamadhenu (Cow of plenty, also referred to as Surabhi - the first cow created by Brahma). Nandini was given to the sage Vasishta by Indra (also referred to as Devendra or Devas) who used her milk to feed thousands of disciples. She could materialize everything that was wished for, so Vasishta eventually became the master ...

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Cupid:

Cupid (Kandarpa): the demigod who incites lusty desires in the hearts of the conditioned living entities.

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Cupid (from Latin cupido desire, equivalent to Greek eros)

A being symbolizing desire in the various senses of the term, ranging from that primary formative force which brings about the union of spirit and matter, to erotic passion.

See also EROS; KAMA; PSYCHE

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