Which Is The Original Arrow?

Greek myths. They're all really around the same bases regardind its content (the main idea or what its about). They all deal either with love, war, or how a hero came to be. In love, they express the many sides that love has and how we deal with them, wether it be jealousy, unconditional love, impossible love , or one that is possible but is wrong. This is where love and war come together. Because of all of these circumstances, the jealousy, the fact that you may sometimes see your parter or when its wrong... for example, The Trojan War. If the myth is not either of these previous topics, it is of how a hero came to be. A hero doesn't necessarily need to be nice to people or anything of that sort; however, he/she in most cases is the main character because he shows transfromation or growth.

Gowing back to the idea of love, it is very much different now as it was in greek times when these myths were created. Cupid was the son of Venus and the god of love, or at least he could create it. Cupid his bow and arrow could have effect on anyone even his own mother the goddess, Venus."VENUS, playing one day with her boy Cupid, wounded her bosom with one of his arrows. She pushed him away, but the wound was deeper than she thought. Before it healed she beheld Adonis, and was captivated with him." We have a completely different concept of Cupid now. We see him as flying a baby in a diper who shoots people with arrows. I wonder if this image was the same in the creation of these myths because women, in general ,have such an uncontrolable desire for children, that it might be like the Odipuss thing where you fall in love with your father or mother at a young age and feel a rivalry with the other. Maybe they're also over-exaggerating the fact that babys spread love and women love them no matter what.(Specially beacuse they're always cute(going back to the original problem that he had with psyche)...)