Reading Notes: Cupid & Psyche, Psyche's Prayer; Part B

Psyche, desperate for Venus, Cupid's mother, to forgive her for her ‘wrong-doings’ she prays to Ceres (the goddess of harvest) and to Juno (queen of heaven and wife of Jupiter/Zeus).  They will be considered angels or one of her aunt’s and the other Venus’s sister; both of which have grown a bond with Venus through the course of events and/or years prior to Cupid and Psyche together.

(Birth of Venus.  Wikipedia Commons. )

Each lengthy prayers and both willing to help, yet still so close and bonded to Venus, they deny her even though Psyche is with child.  Prayer will be held in a church or in each of their homes.  Offerings will be given as a part of persuasion. 

I will include a specific ritual in honor of the child.  Because the prayer was so intent on specific terms and people, it will be manipulated into a prayer that God will test Psyche for.  Not only will God, but those she sought help from will offer insight on how to get on Cupid’s mother’s good side. 

This story will coincide, immediately after the story of “Her Dream.”  It will carry on from there with a time lapse. 

Bibliography:  Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche translated by Tony Kline.  link to reading online.