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In Greek mythology, '''Iynx''' ({{langx|grc|Ἴυγξ|Íynx}}) was a daughter of the god Pan and the nymph Echo. In popular myth, she used an enchantment to cast a spell on Zeus, which caused him to fall in love with Io. In consequence of this, Hera metamorphosed her into the bird called '''iynx''' (Eurasian wryneck, ''Jynx torquilla'').<ref>Scholia on Theocritus, 2.17, on Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 4.380, ''Nemean Ode'' 4.56; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 310. (cited in Smith)</ref>
She was the symbol of restless, passionate love.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DI%3Aentry+group%3D9%3Aentry%3Diynx-harpers Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Iynx]</ref>
==Mythology== Iynx was the daughter of Pan and Echo, or Peitho.<ref>Tzetzes on Lycophron, 310</ref> She was the creator of a magical love-charm known as the ''iynx''—a spinning wheel with a wryneck bird attached. Iynx used her enchantments to make Zeus fall in love with her or with the nymph Io. Hera was enraged and transformed her into a wryneck bird.<ref>{{Citation|title=II. Epistula IIb ad Serapionem und Epistula III ad Serapionem|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110227710.32|work=Athanasius Werke Band 1, Teil 1: Epistulae I-IV ad Serapionem|year=2010|pages=418–424 |place=Berlin, New York|publisher=De Gruyter|doi=10.1515/9783110227710.32|isbn=978-3-11-022771-0|access-date=2021-02-09|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
According to another story, she was a daughter of Pierus, and as she and her sisters had presumed to enter into a musical contest with the Muses, she was changed into the bird iynx.<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#9 9] (cited in Smith) with reference to Nicander, ''Metamorphoses'' Book 4</ref> This bird, the symbol of passionate and restless love, was given by Aphrodite to Jason, who, by turning it round and pronouncing certain magic words, excited the love of Medea.<ref>Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. 380, &c.; Tzetzes on Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#310 310] (cited in Smith)</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}}
== Magic wheel == thumb|199x199px|Iynx (bird wheel), a magic love charm. From Sterea Hellas Evoia, late 8th or early 7th century BC ''Iynx'' toys were small metal or wooden discs rotated by pulling attached strings, in a manner similar to more modern button whirligig toys.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoorn |first1=Gerard van |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcwUAAAAIAAJ&dq=iynx+disc&pg=PA46 |title=Choes and Anthesteria |date=1951 |publisher=Brill Archive |language=en |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref>
==See also== * Jinx * Idyll II * Love magic * Magic in the Greco-Roman world
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * Antoninus Liberalis, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*i%3Aentry+group%3D36%3Aentry%3Di%29%2Fugc Entry for '''ἴυγξ''' in LSJ Greek Lexicon (via Perseus)] – including magical uses of the word * Pindar, ''Odes'' translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DP. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Pindar, ''The Odes of Pindar'' including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0161%3Abook%3DP. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0161%3Abook%3DN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Scholia to Lycophron's ''Alexandra'', marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). [https://topostext.org/work/860 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]. Greek text available on Archive.org '''Attribution:'''
* {{SmithDGRBM|author=Leonhard Schmitz|article=Iynx|volume=2|page=692|ref=none}}
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