Eros

There are many ways in which you can interpret the story of how Eros came to be. After reading through the website I found that Eros was born from the world egg at creation. Eros was also known as phanes and is not really even considered as being part of the ancient religious beliefs of the Greeks. The website said that "EROS was the Protogenos (Primordial deity) of sexual desire who emerged at the very creation of the universe. He was the driving force behind procreation in nature-http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Eros.html." After reading this, I have a different look on the symbolic "Cupid".

"Verily at first Khaos (Air) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Earth), the ever-sure foundation of al1 the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos, and dim Tartaros (Hell) in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them." - Hesiod, Theogony 116