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
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God the Lutheran Church observe the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ on January 1. The feast is a celebration of Mary's motherhood of Jesus. The English title "Mother of God" is a literal translation of the Latin title "Mater Dei", which in turn is a looser rendering of the corresponding Greek title Θεοτόκος ("Theotokos"), literally meaning "Bearer of God" dogmatically adopted by the First Council of Ephesus (431) as an assertion of the divinity of Christ. The title is thus fundamentally Christological rather than Mariological. The Second Vatican Council stated: "Clearly from earliest times the Blessed Virgin is honoured under