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	cinyras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Greek mythology, King Cinyras of Cyprus was a son of Apollo and husband of Metharme.
		Cinyras and his father, Apollo, held a musical contest to see who was a better musician with a lyre.
		On Cyprus, Cinyras was revered as the creator of art and musical instruments such as the flute.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /cinyras.html (115 words)

	Cinyras 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Cinyras 1 came to Cyprus and founded Paphos where he reigned prosperously, although he is also remembered as king of Assyria, and as founder of the city of Smyrna, which he named after his daughter.
		Cinyras 1 is said to have consorted with his daughter Smyrna [see Adonis], killing himself when he realised what he had done.
		Cinyras 2 was an ally of Aeneas in Italy, and leader of the Ligurians [Vir.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Cinyras1.html (464 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the first place, he is said to have begotten his son Adonis in incestuous intercourse with his daughter Myrrha at a festival of the corn-goddess, at which women robed in white were wont to offer corn-wreaths as first-fruits of the harvest and to observe strict chastity for nine days.
		Cinyras is said to have been famed for his exquisite beauty and to have been wooed by Aphrodite herself.
		Thus it would appear, as scholars have already observed, that Cinyras was in a sense a duplicate of his handsome son Adonis, to whom the inflammable goddess also lost her heart.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/196/pages/page332.html (476 words)

	Myrrha
		Cinyras was unaware of the girl's identity because these nightly encounters occurred in the dark while Cinyras was intoxicated.
		One night Cinyras brought in a lamp, discovered the girl was Myrrha, drew his sword, and chased her.
		According to Powell, Myrrha's incestuous love and its horrible consequences for Myrrha and Cinyras is the punishment allotted by Aphrodite in retribution for Cenchreis proclaiming that her daughter was more beautiful than Aphrodite.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/m/myrrha.html (489 words)

	Chapter 30. Adonis in Syria. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of the two cities Byblus was the more ancient; indeed it claimed to be the oldest city in Phoenicia, and to have been founded in the early ages of the world by the great god El, whom Greeks and Romans identified with Cronus and Saturn respectively.
		His legendary namesake Cinyras is said to have founded a sanctuary of Aphrodite, that is, of Astarte, at a place on Mount Lebanon, distant a day’s journey from the capital.
		The spot was probably Aphaca, at the source of the river Adonis, half-way between Byblus and Baalbec; for at Aphaca there was a famous grove and sanctuary of Astarte which Constantine destroyed on account of the flagitious character of the worship.
	www.bartleby.com /196/77.html (907 words)

	The Cinyradae
		3.14.4] [Cinyras had a daughter called Smyrna and] in consequence of the wrath of Aphrodite, for she did not honor the goddess, this Smyrna conceived a passion for her father, and with the complicity of her nurse she shared her father's bed without his knowledge for twelve nights.
		But when he was aware of it, he drew his sword and pursued her, and being overtaken she prayed to the gods that she might be invisible; so the gods in compassion turned her into the tree which they call smyrna (myrrh).
		Cinyras in Cyprus having there married Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, he begat Oxyporus and Adonis, and besides them daughters, Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia.
	www.argyrosargyrou.fsnet.co.uk /cyprus/Cinyradae.htm (481 words)

	Golden Bough Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus.
		Again, the goddess Ma was served by a multitude of sacred harlots at Comana in Pontus, and crowds of men and women flocked to her sanctuary from the neighbouring cities and country to attend the biennial festivals or to pay their vows to the goddess.
		At Paphos the custom of religious prostitution is said to have been instituted by King Cinyras, and to have been practised by his daughters, the sisters of Adonis, who, having incurred the wrath of Aphrodite, mated with strangers and ended their days in Egypt.
		In this form of the tradition the wrath of Aphrodite is probably a feature added by a later authority, who could only regard conduct which shocked his own moral sense as a punishment inflicted by the goddess instead of as a sacrifice regularly enjoined by her on all her devotees.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pag/frazer/gb03100.htm (2463 words)

	In Greek mythology Greek mythology King Cinyras of Cyprus Cyprus was... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Greek mythology Greek mythology King Cinyras of Cyprus Cyprus was...
		In Greek mythology Greek mythology, King "Cinyras" of Cyprus Cyprus was a son of Apollo Apollo and husband of Metharme Metharme.
		Cinyras and his father, Apollo, held a musical contest to see who was a better musician with a lyre lyre.
	www.biodatabase.de /Cinyras (133 words)

	World Lit: Frametales (F2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The connection to the preceding story is genealogical: Pygmalion was the father of Paphos, who was the father of Cinyras.
		Myrrha's story is a very different kind of incest story: she is very clear about who she is in love with (her father), and her guilt about this passion drives her to commit a desperate act.
		Cinyras thinking this to be virgin shyness, forbids her to cry, dries her cheeks, and kisses her on the lips.
	www.mythfolklore.net /2003frametales/weeks/week06_ovid/pages/16.htm (945 words)

	Ovid's Metamorphoses (Myth-Folklore Online)
		Cinyras was the son of Paphos, and he might have been counted amongst the fortunate, if he, in turn, had been childless.
		She spoke: Cinyras, however, who was made doubtful of what to do, by the crowd of noble suitors, naming them, asked her whom she wanted, as a husband.
		As a tall tree, struck by the axe, the last blow remaining, uncertain how it will fall, causes fear on all sides, so her fickle mind, swayed this way and that, her thought taking both directions, seeing no rest for, or end to, her passion, but death.
	www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/ovid/pages/07.htm (1185 words)

	Pygmalion and Adonis
		Finding Cinyras drunk with wine, the king’s bed empty of his lawful partner, the nurse, wrongly diligent, told him of one who truly loved him, giving him a fictitious name, and praised her beauty.
		Eventually, Cinyras, eager to discover his lover after so many couplings, fetching a light, saw his daughter and his guilt, and speechless from grief, he snatched his bright sword out of the sheath it hung in.
		Persephone, you were allowed to alter a woman’s body, Menthe’s, to fragrant mint: shall the transformation of my hero, of the blood of Cinyras, be grudged to me?” So saying, she sprinkled the blood with odorous nectar: and, at the touch, it swelled up, as bubbles emerge in yellow mud.
	www.greece.org /cyprus/Pygmalion.htm (3845 words)

	Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The wife of King Cinyras of Cyprus once boasted that her daughter Smyrna was more beautiful than Aphrodite, but the angry goddess caused Smyrna to fall in love with her father, and sneak into his bed and have sex with her.
		Soon Cinyras learned of this occurrence, and became enraged, and chased his daughter with a sword.
		He overtook her on a hill and brought the sword down upon her, but Aphrodite changed her into a myrrh tree at the last second, and the sword split the tree in half, and from the cleft sprang Adonis.
	www.liminalityland.com /adonis.htm (1844 words)

	Boek A
		"The Muses, too, lament the son of Cinyras, and invoke him in their song; but he does not heed them, not because he does not wish, but because Proserpine will not release him." This was, indeed, the favorite form of the myth, and on it was framed the symbolism of the ancient mystery.
		Cinyras subsequently, on discovering the crime of his daughter, pursued her with a drawn sword, intending to kill her.
		The mythographer Pharnutus gives a still different story, and says that Adonis was the grandson of Cinyras, and fled with his father, Ammon, into Egypt, whose people he civilized, taught them agriculture, and enacted many wise laws for their government.
	www.dancing.org /tsmr/.books/mackey/AMAP~1/AMAC-10.HTM (2862 words)

	Myrrha and Cinyras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I think that even in those times it should be a little weird to think something sexual about the person that helped give birth to you, it might be slightly less disgusting if it is with a brother or even less it is would be a cousin.
		Another problem with the relationship between Myrrha and Cinyras is that he was married, but when he found out that a young woman wanted to give herself to him, being married didn’t seem to matter so much to him anymore.
		So out of this relationship between a girl and her father comes to problems incest and infidelity, but even though these problems are defiantly and issue, their society does not seem to have a problem with it, that is what puzzles me the most.
	english.edgewood.edu /eng276hunter/_disc10/000000f8.htm (324 words)

	Cinyras Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cinyras, son of Sandocus by Pharnace; Oxyporus and Adonis, sons, and Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia, daughters, of Cinyras by Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion;
		Adonis, son of Myrrha by her father Cinyras.
		Myrrha gave birth to Adonis after she became a myrrh tree.
	www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i1232Sources.htm (42 words)

	Metamorphoses (Kline) 10, the Ovid Collection, Univ. of Virginia E-Text Center
		‘She spoke: Cinyras, however, who was made doubtful of what to do, by the crowd of noble suitors, naming them, asked her whom she wanted, as a husband.
		Cinyras drunk with wine, the king’s bed empty of his lawful partner, the nurse, wrongly diligent, told him of one who truly loved him, giving him a fictitious name, and praised her beauty.
		Cinyras, be grudged to me?” So saying, she sprinkled the blood with odorous nectar: and, at the touch, it swelled up, as bubbles emerge in yellow mud.
	etext.virginia.edu /latin/ovid/trans/Metamorph10.htm (7177 words)

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		Over 2000 years before the baby Jesus received myrrh as a gift, it was one of the most sought after and expensive items in the world.
		According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite forced the goddess Myrrha into an incestuous relationship with her father, Cinyras.
		Cinyras, enraged, avenged the act by turning his daughter into a myrrh tree.
	www.hummingbirdsoap.com /ingredients/myrhh.html (297 words)

	Dido, Greek Mythology Link.
		King Cinyras 1 of Cyprus has been regarded as a liar, or as the kind of man who breaks his promises; for he told the Achaeans that he would send fifty ships to support them during the Trojan War, but instead he sent only one.
		The reason for this, however, could have been that, at the time, Dido's father King Belus 2 was attacking Cyprus, forcing Cinyras 1 to keep all his military resources at home.
		When the Trojan War was over, Teucer 1, who had led the Salaminians against Troy, came to Sidon in Phoenicia (as Dido herself later recalled), seeking a new kingdom, and was helped by Belus 2 to settle in Cyprus, where he founded Cyprian Salamis.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Dido.html (3369 words)

	Mythography \| The Legend of Myrrha in Myth and Art
		As a beautiful young woman, Myrrha could have any suitor for her husband, but instead she falls victim to a terrible lust for her own father (some versions claim that the goddess Aphrodite is responsible for making Myrrha desire this incestuous union).
		King Cinyras is utterly fooled, and so taken with his new young lover that he makes a habit of bringing her to his bed many times.
		Finally, one night Cinyras gives in to his curiosity and uses a lamp to expose the young woman who has brought him such pleasure.
	www.loggia.com /myth/myrrha.html (479 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Beguiling Beauties - Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adonis was the son of King Cinyras and his daughter, Smyrna.
		When Cinyras came to his senses and realized what he had done he tried to kill his daughter.
		Aphrodite turned her into a myrrh tree, and the king split the tree down the middle.
	www.geocities.com /hestia624/beauties-adonis.html (256 words)

	Pygmalion loved his Galatea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pygmalion married she who had been a statue and Aphrodite, who had given life to it came to the wedding.
		According to some their daughter Paphos was mother of King Cinyras of Cyprus and sometimes it is said that Cinyras married Metharme and that one of their children was Adonis.
		Cinyras promised to send fifty ships against Troy but sent only one.
	waltm.net /galatea1.htm (236 words)

	Venus Transit Extended InfoSheet D9
		Smyrna, the daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus, was rumoured to be more beautiful than Aphrodite/Venus.
		Venus caused a spell to fall on Smyrna who then fell in love with her own father, went to him while he was in a drunken stupor and became pregnant by him.
		When Cinyras found out what happened, he pursued Smyrna to kill her and as he raised his sword to strike her, Aphrodite turned her into a myrrh tree.
	www.vt-2004.org /Background/Infol2/EIS-D9.html (1123 words)

	The Nation, 11/24/1997 - Poetry and Embodiment by Hammer, Langdon
		The book consists of thirteen short poems (some as short as two lines) and a long poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," which is a sequel to the long poem that concluded Bidart's previous book, In the Western Night.
		...Then, out of her bark, the child of her union with Cinyras is born: He is Adonis, who will "punish love" as Venus' s self-destroying paramour...
		...The granting of her desire is both uoiulfilling and disastrous: In rage and horror at the trick that led him to sleep with his daughter, Cinyras slays her nurse and throws himself from a cliff...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v265i0017_18.htm (1641 words)

	MIRRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Myrrha was the daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, and great-granddaughter of Pygmalion.
		Her mother boasted that Myrrha was more beautiful than Venus herself, and for such presumption, Venus caused Myrrha to fall in love with her father.
		When Cinyras discovered this deed, he chased his daughter out of his palace and pursued her with his sword.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/M/mirra.htm (138 words)

	Adonis, Demeter & Persephone, Dionysus
		We have previously discussed Aphrodite/Venus in Section 4, but there is one more important myth involving her, told here because of the theme of the goddess and a return from death.
		First the unusual story of the birth of Adonis: Cinyras, ruler of Paphos on Cyprus (and a direct descendant of the sculptor Pygmalion, whose statue came to life), had a daughter named Myrrha.
		Knowing that he would never approve of incest, she deceived him by disguising herself as someone else, but after he learned of the deception he was so enraged he pursued his daughter intending to execute her.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/mythology/0700/dionysus.htm (2136 words)

	[No title]
		Although the name Cinyras creates the urge to be creative, independent, and self-sufficient, we point out that it causes a materialistic, somewhat self-opinionated approach that frustrates higher humanitarian qualities.
		This name, when combined with the last name, can frustrate happiness, contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses in the reproductive organs, and tension or accidents to the head.
		The name Cinyras creates a very independent, practical, analytical nature with skillful business abilities.
	www.kabalarians.com /female/cinyras.htm (404 words)

	Myrrha's Tears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Folklore: Well over 2,000 years before the baby Jesus received Myrrh as a gift, it was one of the most desired and most expensive items in the world.
		According to Roberta Wilson, "In Greek mythology, Aphrodite forced the goddess Myrrha into an incestuous relationship with her father, Cinyras.
		Cinyras avenged the act by turning his daughter into a myrrh tree.
	www.a-poets-haven.faithweb.com /Myrrha.htm (143 words)

	SECTION 1 Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nor him alone produc'd the fruitful queen; But Cinyras, who like his sire had been A happy prince, had he not been a sire.
		But the perverseness of my fate is such, That he's not mine, because he's mine too much: Our kindred-blood debars a better tie; He might be nearer, were he not so nigh.
		Another, and another night she came; for frequent sin had left no sense of shame: 'Till Cinyras desir'd to see her face, whose body he had held in close embrace, And brought a taper; the revealer, light, Expos'd both crime, and criminal to sight.
	www.ornekholidays.com /myths_folklore/myth_08.html (2112 words)

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