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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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# Cupid
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**Domain**: Desire, erotic love, attraction, longing
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**Symbol**: Bow and arrows, wings, torch, blindfold
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**Greek Equivalent**: Eros
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## Overview
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Cupid is the Roman god of desire and love, the winged child who looses arrows that kindle sudden passion in gods and mortals alike. His name comes from cupido, “desire” — the ache itself made a person. He is the son and companion of [Venus](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/venus), and where she is love as beauty and abundance, he is love as the arrow that strikes without warning and cannot be reasoned with. No one he wounds is left unchanged, and even [Jupiter](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/jupiter) was not beyond his aim.
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His Greek counterpart is Eros, who in the oldest stories is a primordial force present at the birth of the world. Rome shrank that cosmic power into the mischievous boy familiar from art — plump, winged, sometimes blindfolded, to show that desire falls blindly and rarely where wisdom would send it. Yet the older gravity never fully left him; he remains the god who moves what nothing else can move.
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## Cupid and Psyche
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His central myth is the tale of Cupid and Psyche, told by Apuleius: the god falls in love with a mortal woman so beautiful that even his mother [Venus](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/venus) grows jealous, and after trial, loss, and near-despair, the two are reunited and Psyche is made immortal. It is the rare ancient love story that ends in marriage rather than ruin — desire refined, through suffering, into something that lasts. Psyche’s name means “soul,” and the story reads as an allegory of love and the soul finding each other.
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## Related
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- [Venus](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/venus) — Mother and companion
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- [The Lovers](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-lovers) — The Major Arcana card of union, attraction, and the choice of the heart
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Roman Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology)
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