The name "Psyche" means "Soul" and her union with Eros (aka Cupid) tells the story of how upendo and Soul came to be together. kwa the way, this story is Roman, not Greek, but it works just as well with the Greek, so that is how I shall tell it. This myth had an enormous impact on fairy tales for the inayofuata couple of thousand years.
Long, long zamani a king had three daughters. Psyche, who was the youngest of the three daughters, was so incredibly beautiful that people in her village and outlying areas STOPPED praying to Aphrodite, taking Psyche for the Goddess of Beauty instead. That wasn't too good,...
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