Cupid’s Disheartening Past – Alice Abler vision.org

Cupid, that winged Valentine’s Day mascot with a sordid past. “From a lusty shepherd-king who died annually, causing weeping of women throughout the known world, to the incestuous sun god who is the bringer of life, his tale spans eons and outlive entire civilizations with variations in names and lore. This intertwined history of Cupid and his mother, the traditional mother/son/spouse deities of sexual love and desire, may be somewhat hidden today.” This duo’s interlaced relationship can be traced throughout most recorded history, their contemporaries found throughout cultures and their mythologies from Rome to Mesopotamia and Sumer to Egypt and Babylon. These two are commonly believed to have originated from the real-life embodiment of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis. Nimrod was a great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod and Semiramis, as they grew in political power, believed in their own divinity. Soon after Nimrod’s death his divinity as sun god was set in motion by Semiramis, through nationally taught beliefs ripe in tradition and symbolism. Her own divinity as the Queen of Heaven and Mother of the gods established through her claim in the miraculous conception of a reincarnated Nimrod. “Although the character of the ancient Mother Goddess, the Queen of Heaven, may not be so obvious today, she and her symbols clearly played a key role in Cupid’s many incarnations throughout history.” The historical origins of Cupid are quite interesting, they also reveal an incompatibility within Christianity.