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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Entry #1: Greek god

Eros
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This is Eros, the god of love. He usually uses his powers to make fun of people. The golden makes the victim fall in love with the first person that they see, and the silver arrow makes the victim hate the fist person who they see. Eros usually uses a combination of these two arrows, to make a person suffer with unbearable love toward another person, while that person who is being loved hates the person incredibly. The god of sun, Apollo, had to suffer from this, when he made fun of the tiny arrow of Eros. Eros was the son of Aphrodite (goddess of love) and Ares (god of war.) The major role of Eros in the mythology is to be the attendant of Aphrodite. Eros is the "troublemaker" of the mythology, probably because of his young age. He sometimes gets in a way of the destinies set by the gods, or sometimes ignores his mother, and doesn't create a love relationship that was meant to be between the two people. Eros is usually depicted as a young, naked boy with wings but in some variations of the story, he wears a blindfold due to the proverb "love is blind," and is described as bittersweet, or cruel, because he tortures the mortals and sometimes immortals as well, with his gift of being able to give, or take away love.

Citation:
Wikipedia, "Eros." Wikipedia 8 March 2008 10 March 2008 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28mythology%29

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