Her beauty was such that she was considered to be a new Goddess of Love, and as her Fame spread many came from distant countries to witness this extraordinary wonder. As a result the shrines of Aphrodite were empty and her festivals neglected, and instead of visiting the temples of this sweet goddess, people made long pilgrimages to see the greatest beauty of their time, the princess Psyche. In this way they started worshipping Psyche, scattering flowers in her path and addressing her by the titles that belong to lovely Aphrodite . The goddess disliked this state of affairs, as there is nothing more ridiculous than when a mortal is regarded and honoured as a god. For, however brilliant a human may be, there is no way of comparing a mortal, who walks upon the dirty mud of earth, with the subtle delicacy of those who inhabit Heaven.
Psyche feels miserable.
During all this time Psyche got not satisfaction at all, because men, instead of falling in love with her in a plain way, stared at her, praised her and paid her all kinds of honours, without ever daring to make love to her. So while her elder sisters were married to kings, the mass of admirers and worshippers were still treating her like a wonderful statue. And because of this absurd situation Psyche, who had remained single, started feeling miserable and began to hate that same beauty of hers, which had turned her into an object of cult. Even her father started fearing that this inconvenient cult might upset the gods, which inevitably happens when humans transgress the limits of their nature acting as if they were something else. But the answer he received was of no consolation, because the Oracle said that Psyche was to marry a horrible monster on the top of a mountain.