Love, Innocence, and Sacrifice

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  1. 2. The lustful love deity of the Greeks. He is referred to as Amor (love) or Cupid (desire) in Latin. Aphrodite, the goddess of love and fertility, had an attendant named Eros, and some even claim he was her son.
  2. 4. The goddess of women, marriage, and families; she is the patron of women during childbirth. According to Greek mythology, she is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus, and queen of Mount Olympus and the twelve Olympians.
  3. 6. The Greek god of the West Wind, who transported Psyche with his soft breeze from the cliff she had been left in on an oracle's suggestion to Eros's palace
  4. 8. The Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty who the Romans knew as Venus. Primarily revered as a fertility and love goddess, she also acted as a marriage advisor on occasion.
  5. 10. the soul goddess in classical Greek and Roman mythology. Despite being born mortal, her beauty surpassed that of Aphrodite (Venus) and won the affection of Aphrodite's son, the god of desire, Eros.
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  1. 1. A goddess, Hades' wife and the ruler of the underworld; she was Demeter's daughter by Zeus. The story of her kidnapping by her father's brother, Hades, is her most significant myth.
  2. 3. The goddess of agriculture and the harvest, the Olympian who presided over food, grains, crops, and the earth's fertility.
  3. 5. Sheep A flock of vicious animals with golden fleece and poisonous bites, Meloi Khryseoi in Greek.
  4. 6. the thunder and sky deity who reigns as king of the gods atop Mount Olympus in Greek mythology and religion.
  5. 7. The principal river of the underworld, across which the deceased would be transported to Hades by the ferryman Charon. In Psyche’s myth, Psyche must collect the water from the top of this river.
  6. 9. mortal partner of Aphrodite and Persephone, and most well-known for being the achiever of immortality.