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Psyche & Cupid, A love Story LbNA #56993

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Feb 13, 2011
Location: Amazon Headwaters Trail
City:Eugene
County:Lane
State:Oregon
Boxes:1
Planted by:2hearts1
Found by: chrisineugene
Last found:Aug 11, 2012
Status:FFF
Last edited:Feb 13, 2011
We threw this together pretty quickly just to plant a box for Valentine's Day. This was only my second stamp done with the Pink stuff, & I forgot just how buttery-soft it is. There are a couple "dots" missing from the image, that you can add to your own image later. (you'll know what I mean when you see it). (Warning: This carving has some mild nudity & may not be suitable for children!)
***Drive South on EAST Amazon, as far as it takes you. As it curves left, it turns into Nectar. Immediately, turn right onto Center St. & follow it all the way to the END & park there.
***Walk around the barrier & follow the path (nice place to start a LOVE story)
As you walk up the path, the mind starts to wander. Maybe you tingle with excitement. Very soon, you hear two hearts beating...! See the first large groping (oops! I mean GROUPING)of trees to your right. As you approach, see the large mossy root (or is it a rock?) in front. On the backside, under a mossy rock, the two lovers are in the throes of passion! Speaking of passion, if you're with your Valentine...steal a passionate KISS, after you rehide them well!
***Once upon a time there was a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, Psyche. She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Venus was very jealous, and asked her son Cupid (the boy with the arrows) to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pricked himself, and fell in love with her.
***Despite her great beauty no-one wanted to marry Psyche. Her parents consulted an oracle, and were told that she was destined to marry a monster, and they were to take her to the top of a mountain and leave her there. The west wind took her and wafted her away to a palace, where she was waited on by invisible servants. When night came her new husband visited her, and told her that he would always visit her by night and she must never try to see him.
***Although her invisible husband was kind and gentle with her, and the invisible servants attended to her every desire, Psyche grew homesick. She persuaded her husband to allow her sisters to visit her. When they saw how she lived they became very jealous and talked Psyche into peeking at her husband, saying that he was a monster who was fattening her up to be eaten and that her only chance of safety was to kill him. Psyche took a lamp and a knife, but when she saw her beautiful husband, Cupid, she was so surprised she dripped some hot wax onto his shoulder, waking him. He took in the situation at a glance and immediately left Psyche and the magnificent palace she had been living in disappeared in a puff of smoke.
***Psyche roamed about looking for her husband, and eventually in desperation approached his mother, Venus. Still angry, the goddess set various tasks for Psyche, all of which she passed, with a bit of help from ants and river gods. At last Cupid found out what was going on, and he persuaded Jupiter to order Venus to stop her persecution of Psyche. Then they were married and lived happily ever after - and it really was ever after since Psyche was made a goddess.