PSYCHE, was so entirely beautiful that many in the kingdom abandoned the cult of Aphrodite and worshipped this young girl in her place. Aphrodite was a jealous and vengeful goddess and could bear no rivalry, least of all from a mortal. She summoned her son Eros. “I want you to find a pig,” she said to him, “the ugliest and hairiest in all the land. Go to the palace where Psyche lives, shoot your arrow into her, and make sure that the pig is the first thing she sees.”
