Hyacinth
Hyacinth (person)
Then Apollo abducted the not-so-unwilling youth and, not wanting to share him with the world, hid him in Aeolus' home, and flew to get his father permission to turn his loved-one into an immortal. However, the West Wind, Zephyrus, saw Hyacinthus and immediately fell in love with him. When Hyacinthus put off the advances of Zephyrus, the rejected god decided that if he couldn't have Hyacinth, no one would. And as Apollo and Hyacinth were playing at disc throwing, Zephyrus blew and the disc hit Hyacinth on the head and killed him instantaneously. From the place where Hyacinth's blood touched the ground sprouted beautiful flowers that were named after the dead youth.
Apollo was so grief-stricken that he requested Hades for the boy to be returned to life, but Apollo's uncle wouldn't have it. Later under the mediation of Zeus (who had previously agreed to grant the youth immortality) the two gods reached compromise according to which Hyacinth spent 6 months of every year in the Underworld and 6 months in the company of Apollo in Olympus.
The flowering of the hyacinth flowers symbolizes the rebirth of Hyacinth, and in Sparta that was celebrated in a great holyday called 'the Hyakintheia'.
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