Cupid And Cusicoller: A Comparative Analysis

People have always been drawn to stories of people falling in love and overcoming impossible odds to be together. The myths of Cupid and Psyche, Vertumnus and Pomona, and Ollantay and Cusicoller are all love stories with happy endings. In all of these myths there are obstacles that each couple must face before they can live happily ever after. Cultures around the world have such similar myths because they have the same view of love and they all believe in “happily ever after.” The similarities in myths from different cultures shows that people all over the world are fascinated with the idea of true love. These myths are all similar in the fact that in the end love prevails; however they are different because they face different obstacles in their journey. To begin with, the myth of Cupid and Psyche is about Cupid falling in love with Psyche when he was supposed to be making the
Ollantay was a warrior who fell in love with the Inca’s daughter, Cusicoller, which was forbidden. They went to a priest to get married, but the priest was afraid he would lose his life if he married them, so he denied the request. When Cusicoller found out that she was pregnant, her father sent her away and sentenced Ollantay to death. The Inca had his troops follow Ollantay and his men into the valley, and when they fell asleep, the Inca’s troops kidnapped them. On the journey back, the Inca died and his son Tupac took over. Tupac was an old friend of Ollantay and he told him that he would have to go through with the sentence but he would allow him to speak first. Ollantay stated that it was “the gods, not men, who decide who falls in love with whom.”(Bierlein 150-151) Tupac was so moved by this that he revoked Ollantay’s death sentence because he was convinced that it was the will of the gods. Tupac also brought Cusicoller and their daughter back to the