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Crocus was unhappy with his love affair with the nymph Smilax, and he was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name, the crocus ().Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed.
Crocus ("saffron") Saffron plant: Hermes: Crocus was a male lover of Hermes. One day, when the two were playing a game of discus, Crocus unexpectedly stood up as Hermes was throwing his discus, and ended up getting hit and dying. Hermes then turned his dead lover into the saffron plant. Cyparissus ("cypress") Cypress: Apollo or Silvanus
In Greek mythology Smilax (/ s m ɪ. l ɑː k s /; Greek pronunciation:; Ancient Greek: Σμῖλαξ, romanized: Smílax, lit. 'bindweed' [1]) was the name of a nymph who was in love with Crocus [2] and was turned into the plant bearing her name (the bindweed).
Crocus was said to be a beloved of Hermes and was accidentally killed by the god in a game of discus when he unexpectedly stood up; as the unfortunate youth's blood dripped on the soil, the saffron flower came to be. [202] Perseus received the divine items (talaria, petasos, and the helm of darkness) from Hermes because he loved him. [203]
Other gods are sometimes considered patrons of homosexual love between males, such as the love goddess Aphrodite and gods in her retinue, such as the Erotes: Eros, Himeros and Pothos. [5] Eros is also part of a trinity of gods that played roles in homoerotic relationships, along with Heracles and Hermes , who bestowed qualities of beauty (and ...
The name of the species is named after Crocus, a friend of God Hermes. One day the two friends practice disk throwing and Hermes accidentally kills Crocus. A small flower emerges from where Crocus is, and Crocus's blood falls into the flower. The red-colored extensions (erosion) that appear at the center of the flower are Crocus's blood.
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In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Erotes (/ ə ˈ r oʊ t iː z /; Ancient Greek: ἔρωτες, érōtes) are a collective of winged gods associated with love and sexual intercourse. They are part of Aphrodite's retinue. Erotes is the plural of Eros ("Love, Desire"), who as a singular deity has a more complex mythology.