Iynx

In Greek mythology, Iynx (Greek: Ἴϋγξ) was an Arcadian Oread nymph; a daughter of the god Pan and 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).[1]

Mythology

Iynx was an Arcadian nymph and the daughter of Pan and Echo, or Peitho. 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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4]
See also

Jinx

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Iynx". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. p. 692.
Entry for ἴυγξ in LSJ Greek Lexicon (via Perseus) – including magical uses of the word

Footnotes

Scholia on Theocritus 2. 17, on Pindar,Pythian Ode 4. 380, Nemean Ode 4. 56; Tzetzes on Lycophron 310. (cited in Smith)
"II. Epistula IIb ad Serapionem und Epistula III ad Serapionem", Athanasius Werke Band 1, Teil 1: Epistulae I-IV ad Serapionem, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010, doi:10.1515/9783110227710.32, ISBN 978-3-11-022771-0, retrieved 2021-02-09
Antoninus Liberalis 9. (cited in Smith)
Pindar,Pythian Ode 4. 380, &c.; Tzetzes on Lycophron 310 (cited in Smith)

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