赛琪的爱情故事 心存善念2022-01-15 20:41:22
Painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau
赛琪（Psyche）是希腊神话和罗马神话中的人物。在希腊神话中，她是人类灵魂的化身（Psyche在希腊语意为“灵魂”），常以带有蝴蝶翅膀的少女的形象出现。据阿普列尤斯的《金驴记》中记载，普赛克是人间一位国王最小的女儿，拥有美丽的容颜，甚至比維納斯更美麗。由于她实在太漂亮了，以致人们不再去崇拜爱与美的女神维纳斯，而去崇拜普赛克。但却没人把她当作可以追求的女孩。因此，普赛克一直独身一人。同时，维纳斯对此也很是不满，所以她命令儿子——爱神丘比特把他的箭射向普赛克，让她爱上一个丑陋的怪物。但是当丘比特看到普赛克的时候，也被她的美貌所吸引，不小心让金箭划伤了自己，因此他无可救药地爱上普赛克。
由于没有人愿意娶她，普赛克的父母非常沮丧，向阿波罗祈求办法。神谕宣称普赛克将在一座山峰上嫁给一个可怕的怪物。她的父母决定遵照神谕的指示，这时西风之神将普赛克带到了山谷，这里有一座雄伟的宫殿。于是每到夜晚，丘比特都来与普赛克相会，但是普賽克从来没有看到他的真面目。后来出于善意，丘比特让西风之神把普赛克的两个姐姐带到了宫殿中。她们看到普赛克美丽的家之后，立刻开始嫉妒起她来。她们骗她说，她嫁给了一个可怕的大毒蛇，让她晚上趁他睡觉时杀死他。普赛克出于好奇，决定听从姐姐们的建议。晚上，普赛克拿着灯，看到床上躺着的并不是怪物。普赛克不小心被丘比特的箭刺破，从此爱上了他。但是她不小心将一滴灯油溅落在丘比特的肩上，丘比特惊醒，从窗户飞走了。
普赛克为了重新见到丘比特，她找到维纳斯寻求帮助。维纳斯交给她很多难以完成的任务。普赛克历尽千辛万苦，并在诸神的帮助下，完成了所有任务。维纳斯交给普赛克最后一项任务，是叫普赛克去冥界，把她因照顾丘比特而失去的一天的美丽取回来。普赛克在拿到盒子后，再一次因为好奇而打开了盒子。但是盒子里装的不是什么美丽，而是来自地狱的睡神。普赛克受惑沉沉地睡去。这时候在天上飞翔的丘比特看到了她，唤起了他的同情心。丘比特把睡眠赶走，唤醒了他的妻子。宙斯被他们之间的爱感动，赐予普赛克永生，维纳斯也原谅了她。他们从此幸福的生活在一起。
(wikipedia)
A stunningly beautiful girl, Psyche, is born after two older sisters. People throughout the land worship her beauty so deeply that they forget about the goddess Venus. Venus becomes angry that her temples are falling to ruin, so she plots to ruin Psyche. She instructs her son, Cupid, to pierce the girl with an arrow and make her fall in love with the most vile, hideous man alive. But when Cupid sees Psyche in her radiant glory, he shoots himself with the arrow instead.
Meanwhile, Psyche and her family become worried that she will never find a husband, for although men admire her beauty, they always seem content to marry someone else. Psyche's father prays to Apollo for help, and Apollo instructs her to go to the top of a hill, where she will marry not a man but a serpent. Psyche bravely follows the instructions and falls asleep on the hill. When she wakes up, she discovers a stunning mansion. Going inside, she relaxes and enjoys fine food and luxurious treatment. At night, in the dark, she meets and falls in love with her husband.
She lives happily with him, never seeing him, until one day he tells her that her sisters have been crying for her. She begs to see them, but her husband replies that it would not be wise to do so. Psyche insists that they visit, and when they do, they become extremely jealous of Psyche's beautiful mansion and lush quarters. They deduce that Psyche has never seen her husband, and they convince her that she must sneak a look. Confused and conflicted, Psyche turns on a lamp one night as her husband lies next to her.
When she sees the beautiful Cupid asleep on her bed, she weeps for her lack of faith. Cupid awakens and deserts her because Love cannot live where there is no trust. Cupid returns to his mother, Venus, who again decides to enact revenge on the beautiful girl.
Psyche, meanwhile, journeys all over the land to find Cupid. She decides to go to Venus herself in a plea for love and forgiveness, and when she finally sees Venus, the great goddess laughs aloud. Venus shows her a heap of seeds and tells her that she must sort them all in one night's time if she wants to see Cupid again. This task is impossible for one person alone, but ants pity Psyche and sort the seeds for her. Shocked, Venus then orders Psyche to sleep on the cold ground and eat only a piece of bread for dinner. But Psyche survives the night easily. Finally, Venus commands her to retrieve a golden fleece from the river. She almost drowns herself in the river because of her sorrow, but a reed speaks to her and suggests that she collect the golden pieces of fleece from the thorny briar that catches it. Psyche follows these instructions and returns a sizable quantity to Venus. The amazed goddess, still at it, now orders Psyche to fill a flask from the mouth of the River Styx. When Psyche reaches the head of the river, she realizes that this task seems impossible because the rocks are so dangerous. This time, an eagle helps her and fills the flask. Venus still does not give in. She challenges Psyche to go into the underworld and have Persephone put some of her beauty in a box. Miraculously, Psyche succeeds.
On her way toward giving the box to Venus, she becomes curious, opens the box, and instantly falls asleep. Meanwhile, Cupid looks for Psyche and finds her sleeping. He awakens her, puts the sleeping spell back in the box, and takes her to Zeus to request her immortality. Zeus grants the request and makes Psyche an immortal goddess. She and Cupid are married. Venus now supports the marriage because her son has married a goddess—and because Psyche will no longer distract the men on earth from Venus.