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Eros (Cupid) : Child of Chaos  ,the shining god of love and attraction . He was depicted as a blindfolded male, who, carrying his bow and arrow, could target any human being and make them fall in love with the first person they would see.  Hesiod doesn't write much about Eros except that he was , “The fairest among the deathless gods . " In later myths he was the son of Aphrodite. Celtic Gods, Roman Gods, Legends And Myths, Greek Gods And Goddesses, Celtic Mythology, Greek And Roman Mythology, Ancient Mythology, Roman Mythology, Mythology Art

Eros (Cupid) : Child of Chaos ,the shining god of love and attraction . He was depicted as a blindfolded male, who, carrying his bow and arrow, could target any human being and make them fall in love with the first person they would see. Hesiod doesn't write much about Eros except that he was , “The fairest among the deathless gods . " In later myths he was the son of Aphrodite.

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Description "They say Eros carried two sorts of arrows; golden to wound his prey with desire, and leaden to create a powerful aversion. He was mischievous and even heartless with those mortals he attracted to and repelled from one another. But even the winged one came to love once, and since then, knowing the heartache of it first-hand, his arrows have only been golden. We humans do enough to confound love on our own." (Sorry, I did not have time to tweak like I really wanted to, so some…

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For the ancient Greeks, 'love' was categorized into distinct words, each representing a different kind of infatuation; which is considerably different from our ideas of generalizing all aspects and types of 'love' into a single word. This played a significant role when working with magic spells and amulets, as the intention of the magic would be focused on what kind of love or relationship a person was seeking to obtain or strengthen.

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