Name: ____________________________ Fill-In for “Cupid and Psyche” A king once had _______________ daughters, but _______________ surpassed them all with her beauty. Because of her beauty _______________’s temples were neglected, which angered the Goddess of _______________ and beauty. Aphrodite called upon her son, _______________, to shoot Psyche with his arrows of love, so she would fall in love with “the vilest and most despicable _______________.” However, upon seeing Psyche _______________ fell madly in love and could not tell _______________ about this turn of events. Soon it seemed no man wanted _______________ as men would admire her and then marry others. Psyche’s _______________ traveled to an Oracle of _______________ to discover how to marry off his daughter. He learns that he must leave her on a “rocky _______________” to be taken by a “winged _______________.” A wind sent by _______________ then lifted her and brought her to rest on a “grassy _______________” and beside a _______________. There she saw a magnificent _______________ left for her where she would be attended to day and night. All of Psyche’s _______________ left her that night when she felt and heard her _______________, no serpent at all, murmur in her ear. Still, she was not content. Her husband then told Psyche that danger was coming in the form of her two _______________. Even though her invisible husband said they would bring her “own _______________” she still went to see them. _______________ brought them to Psyche, and after visiting Psyche gave them riches to take back home. Unfortunately, their _______________ consumed them and they plotted to end Psyche’s happiness. Despite another warning from _______________, Psyche saw her sisters again. They attempted to convince her that her husband was actually the _______________ from the oracle’s earlier statements. This made Psyche wonder why her husband never let her _______________ him, so her sisters then said to have a _______________ and a _______________ ready that night to see and then kill him. That night Psyche did as her sisters bid except that her nervous _______________ trembled. She saw not a monster, but a lovely young man. _______________ from the

lamp fell upon Cupid’s _______________ and woke him. He angered at her lack of _______________ and fled the mansion in which they lived. He said to her “_______________ cannot live where there is no _______________.” Thus begins a lesson about _______________ as Psyche searches for her husband. _______________ then decided to “train” Psyche by giving her seemingly impossible tasks to accomplish. The first task required Psyche to sort _______________ into separate piles, but _______________ assist her . Next, Psyche was required to fetch the _______________ of the golden sheep, and a green _______________ told her that what she desired to collect could be found on sharp _______________in thickets by the river. _______________ then instructed Psyche to collect water from the river _______________ in a flask. This time an _______________ helped her. Lastly, Psyche had to travel to the _______________ to retrieve some _______________ from _______________. Along the way she had to give _______________ a penny and a _______________ to Cerberus. Once she collected the box, she just had to _______________ it. Upon looking inside she fell into a heavy _______________. _______________ then saved Psyche. He then went to _______________ who agreed to stop Aphrodite from interfering further. He then announced that Cupid and Psyche were forever _______________ and made Psyche _______________. Cupid (_______________) and Psyche (_______________) had found each other, and this “union could never be _______________.”