Week 3 Story: Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche
Source: Cupid and Psyche

Son Betrayal Leads to Happily Ever After 

In an unexpected turn of events, the famous son of the lovely goddess of love, Venus, defies his mother’s orders to kill the beautiful mortal, Psyche. Venus became overly jealous by rumors of the astounding beauty of Psyche, the third daughter of a local Queen and King. Citizen’s flocked to worship the young mortal beauty, thus eliciting jealous rage of the goddess. Venus orders her son, cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a poor, retched man. A servant from the Queen and King’s castle says, “The young beauty was miserable. She hated her beauty and feared for her marriage prospect. She is innocent in all of this and never asked to have this life. The King also consulted an oracle, because he was said that no one loved his daughter and was told to take her to the top of the mountain and that she would have a fatal and dark wedding.” 

The King and Queen dropped their daughter off on the mountain top and deserted her. From here she was taken by the wind from the mountain and carried the young beauty to the valley, but unbeknownst to Psyche this was all a part of Cupids grand plan. He provided her a place, riches and invisible servants, but the caveat to her happiness that she could not see him in the light. Psyche beds Cupid. 

Her sisters searched for their missing little sister. With the help of her husband, Psyche brings the two sisters to the place with the invisible servants. The sisters become envious of Psyche’s vast riches and become curious of Psyche’s illusive husband. When they find no answer, they get jealous and plan on doing her evil. Cupid tells her not the answer the sister and informs Psyche she is pregnant. The sisters come back to the palace to get more answers and fell the answe3rs Psyche gave them were lies. The devised a plan to convinced Psyche that she is married to a serpent. She believed them, admitting that she has never seen his face. The sisters advise Psyche to cut off Cupids head when he sleeps. That night Psyche lights the lamp to cut off his head and realizes that her husband is no serpent, but the beautiful Cupid, son of Venus. As she realizes who she is wed too, the the lamp oil burns him and he wakes up. He then admits he disobeyed his mother by marrying her and flies away. To get back at her sisters’ cruel ways, she visits each one individually about Cupid, and said as punishment for her disobeying him that he will marry the sister she was talking too. The sisters were ecstatic and go to the top of the mountain, jump to have they wind carry them, but the wind does not pull through, leaving each of the sisters to fall to their death. 

            Venus finds out about how her beloved son betrays her wishes. While Cupid was recovering in the other world. Psyche finds Venus and Venus gives Psyche fours life threatening tacks. Psyche had help with preforming the tasks. Psyche completes all the tasks but one. Vein Psyche failed the last, retrieving the jar of beauty, and takes one drop for herself to help get Cupid back, but it was a sleeping potion. Cupid wipes the poison from Psyches mouth and tells her to complete the task, while he seeks advice from his father. They convince Venus into approval. Psyche drink the drink of immortality. Psyche, Cupid, and their daughter, Pleasure, live happily ever after. 

Story Source: Apuleius, Origin stories: Apuleius's Golden Ass,, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/p/weeks-3-4.html

This story is a rendition from the old love story of Cupid and Psyche. A story of a forbidden love turned true. 

Reading Notes

Happily Ever After
Source: Cupid and Psyche

Apuleius, Origin stories: Apuleius's Golden Ass,, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/p/weeks-3-4.html

Venus continues to be hateful and jealous. Basically denying Cupid happiness, probably because she knows she will never be. Psyche is heartbroken a is trying to get Cupid back from Venus. Venus finds Psyche. The interaction did seemed sarcastic between Venus and Psyche.  Psyche defeated a sheep. Psyche meets abducted girl. Cupid and Psyche get to be together. 

Reading Notes

Psyche and Cupid
Source: Cupid and Psyche

Apuleius, Origin stories: Cupid and Psyche unit, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/p/weeks-3-4.html

Lucius: was turned into a very hungry donkey that was stolen by robbers, 

Young girl: spoiled, hysterical, heart broken

Old woman: poor, robber

Robbers: poor, rob for money 

Venus: jealous

Psyche: beautiful

Cupid: son of Venus, had to punish psyche on order of Venus

Week 2 Reading Overview

Folklore
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CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.

Week 3: Cupid and Psyche- I love a good love story

Week 4: Ovid's Metamorphoses

 MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.

Week 5: Indian-i love Indian food and India has always interest me

Week 6: Turkey- Well...I like Tinker Bell

ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9.

Week 7: Nigeria-I live on a lake and love stories about the water

Week 9: South Africa

NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.

Week 10: Cherokee- I was raised 30 miles from the Cherokee's capital  

Week 11: Tejas

BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.

Week 12: Nursery Rhyme's- I love nursery rhymes 

Week 13: Robin Hood- Hope it is better than the movie that was recently released

EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.

Week 14: Librivox 

Week 15: Decameron

Time Strategies

Time management does amazing things
Source: Time Management

Technology

Computer
Source: Computer

I have never blogged before, so this process has taken some getting used too. I am glad Blogger is user friendly, helps me out a lot. I think I am going to be a pro Blogger in a few weeks.

Assignments

Skald'd Circle
Source: Skald's Circle

This class seems to be very interesting and I am ready to dive in to the stories. I have never been in a class that is set up like this, it is a little overwhelming, but I think I am starting to get used to the set up.

Introduction to Watson's mom

Watson in the back of my car
Personal Photo

Hello my name is Hannah Pagels, like bagels with a "P." I have a dog named Watson, he is a year old and is a little over 115 pounds. He is a Bernese Mountain Dog. He likes long walks, ice "treats", ice water, and will only eat hid food if it is cascade down some stairs. I am a senior here at OUr fine University. I am a Psychology major. The coolest thing about my major is getting know why people do the tings they do and having capability (after getting masters) to help people, misunderstood or not, to help give them tools to make themselves happy. My plan is to graduate, maybe go work in a behavioral center as a P.C.A. for a year then start on my masters to become a therapists.

My favorite class last semester was Creative Art Therapy. What I loved about this class is that anyone could take it, so there were all sorts of majors and it was relaxing.I would recommend this class to anyone who needs and upper division elective class. My biggest accomplishment last semester was getting through the semester.

This past break I went to my families in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was a lot of fun, because my cousins still believe in Santa. I enjoyed watch the magic of Christmas come alive for them. I have been watching "Room 104" on HBO, it is very weird, I would compare it to "Black Mirror," but based in a hotel room. I really enjoy cooking, especially pasta. My grandma is Italian so she has taught me a lot about cooking. Now she is super old and I am able to cook for her. I also like to SCUBA dive, living in a landlocked state makes things a little difficult, I am about to start Rescue Diver certification. I live on a like in Oklahoma called Grand Lake of the Cherokees, so I like most water sports. I especially like wake surfing.

Storybook Favorites

Reminded me of Myth Folklore
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The first article that popped out was Mermaid Tales. I am a SCUBA diver and there are many mysteries of the ocean. When I was little "The Little Mermaid" was my favorite movie and ever since then I have loved mermaid things, including the animal planet documentary over whether or not mermaids exists. The title is a great title and described to me what to expect from the article. The intro itself, was pretty interesting. I liked how the paragraphs were in too long and straight to the point making it a quick and concise read. Overall, the pages were very easy to navigate. I know this is the older layout, but I like it a lot. I like the use of picture which provided as visual description.

The next article that grabbed my attention was Death's Story. I feel like everyone is curious about the topic of the death. That is basically why I chose this article out of curiosity. Back in my middle school days my my friends and I used to play this game called Episodes and a lot of the stories dealt with the mythical being of death. The title is a great descrioption of what to expect.  The introduction was super riveting. Whomever wrote seems to be a good writer, and made me want to read more of the pages. The newer layout looks cooler than the older one and just as easy to use.

Article three is the Dragons Guide to the Elements. I like "Game of Thrones" and I find the dragons so beautiful and mystical. The title caught my attention, because I wanted to know what kind of elements dragons have. The title was not deceiving, the pages truly go through each element. The introduction was a tab bit dry, but I enjoyed how each page went into each element. It made the point of the article very clear.

Favorite Place

Roseau, Dominica
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Beach I stayed on the island of Dominica
My iPhone

My favorite place is Dominica. I went there for Spring Break two years ago. The island has nine active volcano, since the black sand. I. actually could not go swimming the on this side of the island because the undertow was so bad. All of the images are personal (a.k.a. off my snapchat).

This is a Pink Fern I saw on a hike.
Taken with my iPhone

One of the reasons why I love this is island is the diversity of terrain. And the people, they are the "One Love" type. My family and I went on a 15mile adventure up a mountain, down this clay crevice, through the Vally of Desolation, and finally to our destination, the Boiling Lake, which is one of three in the world.

Clay crevice
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Vally of Desolation
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Close up of Vally particularly sulfur pools
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I got a charcoal face mask from the source!I thought I was going to die on this hike. My brother even had to carry my backpack!! The boiling lake was so worth the trek, I even got fresh water on the hike that was unfiltered! This lake was incredible, and yet frightening. A very humanizing experience. 

Boiling Lake
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Baby steps

Still making the journey

January 8, 2019

Signing on. A bold new journey begins...