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Psyche was the youngest daughter of a Greek king and queen. She had two elder sisters. She was the fairest among her siblings and she looked liked a goddess among mortals. She was so beautiful that people, including priests, compared her to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Many went to the extent of saying that she was even fairer than the goddess. When Aphrodite's temples were deserted because people started worshiping her, the goddess was outraged. As a punishment, she sent her son, Eros, to make Psyche fall in love with a vile and hideous person. However, Eros fell in love when he saw her and decided to spare her from his mother's wrath.
Both of her elder sisters were jealous of her beauty. Her sisters eventually got married with kings and left to be with their husbands. Nobody asked Psyche's hand for marriage, men would rather admire her beauty. She was left alone. Desperate, her father decided to consult the oracle of Delphi to get answers.
Her father, the king, saw this problem and confronted the Oracle of Delphi for the solution of this problem. From inside the priestess, Apollo himself spoke. He said, "Despair, king. Your daughter will marry a beast even the gods fear. Dress her in funeral clothes and take her to the tallest rock spire in the kingdom. There, she shall meet her doom." Hearing this, the king was heartbroken. But since he had got direct orders from Apollo, he did as he was ordered.
He took her in funeral clothes to the tallest rock spire in the kingdom. Psyche waited for the beast to come. But when the Beast did not come, she took matters in her own hands. She jumped off the spire. Everyone in the kingdom thought she was dead.
But Zephyrus, the Greek lord of west wind, had saved her from her death. He had taken her to Eros's palace where she waited till the night for her husband to return. There, she saw that the palace was very big and each cupboard was filled with gold. When Eros returned, he said to Psyche in pure darkness that she must not see him. She must not try to see him and he can't tell her his name or it would ruin everything.
The first few weeks of Psyche's life were great. But then she heard her sisters calling out her name.
