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The flower hyacinth that rose from Hyacinth's blood is said to have had a deep blue or purple hue and a sign resembling the inscription "AI" on its petals, a symbol of sorrow. [41] However, this flower has been identified with another plant, the larkspur, or an iris, or perhaps gladiolus italicus rather than what we today call hyacinth. [42]
The name comes from Greek mythology: Hyacinth was killed by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, jealous of his love for Apollo, who then transformed the drops of blood into flowers. Several species of Brodiaea , Scilla , and other plants that were formerly classified in the Liliaceae family and have flower clusters borne along the stalk also ...
In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Ancient Greek: Θάμυρις, Thámuris) was a Thracian singer. He is notable in Greek mythology for reportedly being a lover of Hyacinth and thus to have been the first male to have loved another male, [1] but when his songs failed to win his love from the god Apollo, he challenged the Nine Muses to a competition and lost.
Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe.The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple. [1]English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia.
Hyacinth (mythology), divine hero in Greek mythology; Hyacinthus the Lacedaemonian (in Greek mythology), who sacrificed his daughters to Athena or Persephone; Hyacinth of Caesarea (died 108), early Christian martyr saint; Hyacinth and Protus (martyred 257–9), Christian saints; Hyacinth of Poland (1185–1257), Polish priest, canonized 1594
Hyacinth Another great March baby name inspired by spring flowers, Hyacinth, references renewal, growth, and natural beauty. In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a figure associated with ...
When Ajax killed himself during the Trojan War his blood that dripped on the ground gave rise to a white-and-reddish hyacinth flower which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name ai, which also was an expressive of lament. In antiquity, hyacinth probably described the various species of delphinium, and not the modern hyacinth flower ...
The myth of Cyparissus, like that of Hyacinthus, has often been interpreted as reflecting the social custom of pederasty in ancient Greece, with the boy the beloved of Apollo. Pederastic myth represents the process of initiation into adult male life, [ 3 ] with a "death" and transfiguration for the eromenos.