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While seemingly dutifully in love with the fair maiden Athena, Icarus was also aware of the wealth she would inherit from her father, Preliuos. However, to ensure she truly loved him and would accept his hand in marriage, he prayed to the Goddess of Love, hoping she would hear his precious pleading not long after appearing to him in the garden where he met Athena. Seeing the Goddess Amaria standing in her white robe with a glowing halo around her, he stared in awe at her as he fell to his knees.
“Why do you call me my child?” says Amaria. “I came to ask that you help me make a woman fall truly in love with me so that she will accept my hand in marriage,” answered Icarus. Amaria looked down upon him inquisitively, “If you say she is already in love, why would you then need my help?” Icarus said, “It is not enough; I need to be certain that she will say yes so that I may inherit the fortune of her fathers.” “If she has the smallest doubt about me, she will not accept, and I can not let that happen.” Amaria then turned away from him to ponder over what he desired. However, the idea seemed preposterous to her; love was not a simple mind game. Nor something to be taken so carelessly as Icarus had made it seem. She did not have it in her heart to condone such an unholy act. She turned to Icarus and said, “If you truly desire such, then a test of love you shall endure.” Those were her final words as she disappeared into the rose bushes behind her.
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