#kind of metamophoses like

[foxghost]

Back in 2009, Samsung sold these netbooks that shipped with win7 starter that could boot to something called "phoenix hyperspace". This is fascinating if you're a nerd.

[rinasunny]

Canon details of Eros and Psyche tale often missed out by the retellings [Part 1]

There is only one ancient source of this myth/tale (so no variations here) is 2nd century AD novel "The Golden Ass or Metamophoses", written in Latin thus most names of the gods are the Roman ones. For example Eros is Cupid, Aphrodite is Venus etc.

The context of the story with the story is that the tale is told by an old woman to calm down a girl kidnapped to blackmail her wealthy parents. Funny enough her kidnappers aren't that violent or sadistic. They just need money.

Here comes a brief icky part. Although it's hard to impress Greek/Roman mythology enthusiasts with incest but this one has an extra ick. Apparently Eros/Cupid is the son of Aphrodite/Venus and Zeus/Jupiter, they both at least refer to him as their son. Venus confirms Jupiter's parentage of Cupid in her rant. However towards the end of the tale Jupiter calls Venus his daughter. I'm not entirely sure that he means it litterally since Venus still has assossiation with the sea (more on that below). So take it as you will.

Venus demands Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most miserable man alive. No monsters or beasts.

After giving Cupid the task Venus essentially leaves for the marine leisure with her entourage of various sea deities in which she temporarily abandons her duties as a love goddess.

Before leaving Venus gives Cupid a kiss which, depending on translation, may also have incestuous undertones.

The Oracle's prophecy doesn't describe Cupid as a monster or a beast either, but rather "a ferocious and viperous evil". The misconception likely comes from a) characters themselves (like Psyche's sisters) misinterpreting the prophecy; b) given that the prophecy is written as a poem translators often take liberties with it for the sake of a rhyme, rhythm or both; c) the tendency towards simplification when it comes to retelling.

And you must keep in mind that the one makes such unflattering description of Eros/Cupid is non-other than Apollo. Just a reminder these two have quite an extensive history of mutual hatred.

Psyche was never happy with being perceived as a 'Venus incarnate', she always knew it would lead her into trouble.

Cupid's palace unsurprisingly has all kinds of luxuries including invisible servants, musicians and a choir.

The first night probably wasn't all enjoyable for Psyche (may depend on translation). At the very least she was nervous about losing her virginity. And no wonder, given that the only info she got on her fiancé at the time was the prophecy, and their first interaction was just... sex. Though in subsequent nights she learned to have pleasure from it.

Cupid's "Don't listen to your sisters" began even before he agreed upon letting them in into the palace.

Part 2 coming tomorrow

[duckyreads]

So I’m probably going to regret digging into this particular mess, but has Tommy Joe Ratliff completely metamophosized into a not-so-funhouse mirror version of himself? I haven’t really been keeping up with various musical people whose work I liked forever ago, but a glance at twitter and things looked... weird? Is he just a conservative Christian republican now? When did that happen? Don’t some of his views kind of spit on the entire community he used to be a part of? Morbid curiosity compelled me to ask the internet at large, who may have been paying more attention.