So to shield his identity and his true self from Psyche, he only appears in the dark so that she doesn't see the true majesty that he is and so that the message would not get back to Venus who is his mother that he in fact betrayed her trust and orders by not killing Psyche.
Cupid was a god, and, as beautiful as he was, he did not want his mortal wife to see his form. Psyche's sister didn't know he was a god, although they may have suspected it. However, they did know that Psyche's life was much happier than theirs.
Cupid hides himself because he is a god, and also because he was ordered by Venus to kill Psyche but instead falls in love with her. What kind of love does Cupid have for Psyche? Cupid is sent to shoot Psyche with an arrow so that she may fall in love with something hideous.
Psyche is blown away by how ridiculously handsome her husband is. She's so distracted that she lets a drop of oil fall and burns his skin. Cupid wakes up and sees his wife standing there with the lamp and a knife. Furious, he flies out the window, telling Psyche that she'll never see him again.
According to Roman mythology, Cupid fell madly in love with Psyche despite his mother's jealousy over Psyche's beauty. While he married her, he also told her never to look at him. He visited her only at night. Her sisters convinced her to look at Cupid despite his warning.
Cupid and Psyche
Instead, Cupid became so enamored with Psyche that he married her—with the condition that she could never see his face. Eventually, Psyche's curiosity got the better of her and she stole a glance, causing Cupid to flee in anger.
His Greek counterpart is Eros. Although Eros is generally portrayed as a slender winged youth in Classical Greek art, during the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy.
They named him Cupid, a synonym for Eros that also translates to “desire.” (His mother was likewise Venus, the Roman version of the Greek Aphrodite.) For the Romans, the character of Cupid was always a cherubic little boy who followed his mother's wishes to make people fall in love. Venus and Cupid, circa 18th century.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.470-74. Cupid = Eros = Kama.
However, when Eros laid eyes on Psyche, he was so completely mesmerized by her beauty that he forgot to carry out his mother's orders. In fact, he fell in love with Psyche himself.
Once Venus had a second son, Anteros, Cupid became older and stronger. Perhaps Cupid is usually seen as a baby because babies represent the combination of two people in love. In Greek mythology, his mother is Aphrodite. Cupid is the equivalent to the gods Amor and Eros, depending on which myths are told.
The Visit of Psyche's Sisters
He warned her not to reveal anything about him, punctuating his admonitions with the warning that she was with child: “Keep our secret and the child will be an immortal, divulge our secret and the child will be mortal.” Still, Psyche begged to see her sisters one more time.
Now Cupid is widely regarded as a Greek/Roman god, and not a demon.
In Roman mythology, Voluptas or Volupta is the daughter born from the union of Cupid and Psyche, according to Apuleius. The Latin word voluptas means 'pleasure' or 'delight'; Voluptas is known as the goddess of "sensual pleasures". She is often found in the company of the Gratiae, or Three Graces.
Weaknesses: Easily duped to be a pawn in other people's games. Also very proud of his skills as God of Love. Physical Description: He appears as a highly attractive fair-haired and light-skinned man (not a baby!) of indeterminate age. He dresses in Greek togas and is never seen without his bow and arrows.
Cupid Asexual or Cupid Ace is an asexual individual who falls under the definition of asexual, but still experiences a small form of sexual attraction. Cupid asexuals may relate to having a 'lack of', 'low' or 'little to no' sexual attraction as stated in asexual's definition.
Cupid is, quite literally, the child of the goddess of love, Venus. In Greek mythology, he is known as Eros, and, depending on the source, was thought to be a primordial god who came into the world either asexually, from an egg, or the son of Aphrodite (Venus' Hellenistic counterpart).
Putti representing cupids became known as an amorini. Finally, it was the art of the 17th century that started representing putti and amorini as playful children disregarding the Roman god's powers, which is where the modern Valentine's Day representation of a mischievous flying toddler with a bow and arrow comes from.
At the worst he was considered mischievous in his matchmaking, this mischief often directed by his mother, Venus. In one tale, her machinations backfired when she used Cupid in revenge on the mortal Psyche, only to have Cupid fall in love and succeed in making Psyche his immortal wife.
The Cupid in pop culture imagery usually appears to be a boy this size, and probably no greater than 30 pounds at the high end. The same data shows that boys around this age are typically about two feet tall, which also fits the common depictions of Cupid.
His earliest depictions are that of a handsome young man, but during the time of Alexander the Great, poets began to reimagine Eros as mischievous child. As time went on, he continued to age in reverse until he finally became an infant during the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC).
From that moment on, Eros and Psyche lived happily together in their lovely palace, which was always full of roses and other flowers. Psyche persuaded Eros to forgive his mother for what she had made her suffer. As a wedding gift, Zeus made Psyche immortal and allowed her to taste ambrosia, the drink of the Gods.
The council of gods convinced Venus that it would be good for Cupid to settle down. So Psyche was made immortal. The two married and their child was called Pleasure. They lived happily ever after, although that's difficult to believe with the brat around.
During their time together, she got pregnant, a fact nobody noticed until a few months later. One day, Psyche wanted to go home to visit her family, but her husband told her that she could never come back if she left.
Like many Roman gods and goddesses, Cupid is a counterpart to a Greek god, that god being Eros. Looks wise Eros is the complete opposite of Cupid.