Eros is one of the primordial gods involved in the coming into being of the cosmos. But in later sources, Eros is represented as the son of Aphrodite, whose mischievous interventions in the affairs of gods and mortals cause bonds of love to form, often illicitly. Ultimately, in the later satirical poets, he is represented as a blindfolded child, the precursor to the chubby Renaissance Cupid, whereas in early Greek poetry and art, Eros was depicted as an adult male who embodies sexual power, and a profound artist. A cult of Eros existed in pre-classical Greece, but it was much less
Church of the Holy Mother of God, Vanadzor Church of the Holy Mother of God, Vanadzor Church of the Holy Mother of God (), is a 19th-century church in Vanadzor, Armenia. It was constructed between 1828 and 1830 and consecrated in 1831. The construction was completed through the donation of Yuzbashi (captain) Piluman Tayiryants, during the reign of tsar Nicholas I of Russia and His Holiness Catholicos John VIII of Armenia. As early as the 13th century, the area of modern-day Vanadzor was called "Gharakilisa" -meaning the "black church" in Turkic- by the Seljuks possibly. This name was derived from the black-stoned ancient Armenian church of the Holy