Eros makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence. The Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries featured Eros as a very original god, but not quite primordial, since he was the child of Night (Nyx). Aristophanes (c. 400 BC), influenced by Orphism, relates the birth of Eros: In later myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares: it is the Eros of these later myths who is one of the erotes. Eros was associated with athleticism, with statues erected in "gymnasia", and "was often regarded as the protector of homosexual love between men." Eros was depicted
Monastery of the Mother of God (Olmedo) Monastery of the Mother of God (Olmedo) Monastery of the Mother of God, is ais a monastery of Dominican nuns founded in 1528 as Beatery, under the title of Sta. Catalina, under the protection of Mrs Francisca de Zuñiga, Abbess of San Payo the real Santiago, sited in Olmedo, Valladolid Province, Spain. Founded in 1528, to adopt the 1830 closure order. During the first seizure, the monastery despite a government ban, remained active in the figure of the Mother Prioress Isabel de Garcimartín, who together with three novices with secular clothes, kept the monastery until 1868, when It return to