Jacek - Hyakinthos Myth

Hyakinthos Myth

Hyakinthos was the name of a beautiful boy. He was a son of Sparta's King. The God Apollo fell in love with the young prince. Apollo and Hyakinthos spent much time together talking and hiking through forests and mountains. Then, one early summer day they went to discus throwing. With every throw, the discus would fly higher and higher up in the sky. Apollo threw the discus with all his strength and it flew up into the clouds. Hyakinthos started running to the place where he expected the discus would fall.

There are two version what happened next:

First says: the discus turned over and accidentally hit Hyakinthos's head.
Second version: The God Zefir (The God of the winds) was in love with Hyakinthos, he felt jealous and decided to take revenge by sending the winds to change the discus's direction so that it hit the young boy's head.
The blood started running from Hyakinthos's head. It was running as fast as the life leaving his young body. Hyakinthos was dying in Apollo's arms. Apollo was crying and swearing at his immortality since he could not die with his lover. The blood changed Hyakinthos's black hair into red, running to the ground. Apollo bent over to Hyakinthos's ear whispering, "...in my heart you'll never be dead, my beautiful Hyakinthos. Let the memory about you never die!". With these words, on the place that Hyakinthos's blood soaked in, a delicate red flower grew. A mark of Apollo's sorrow is visible on its leaves - even now, and it was given the name Hyacinthus in memory of the beautiful boy.

The name Hyacinth (Jacek, Jacinto, Giacinto, Jácint) might refer to:

• Saint Hyacinth (Święty Jacek, Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar and saint
• Jacek Bąk, footballer
• Jacek Bednarek, racewalker
• Jacek Bogucki, politician
• Jacek Dehnel, poet and writer
• Jacek Dukaj, science fiction writer
• Jacek Falfus, politician
• Jacek Gmoch, footballer
• Jacek Jezierski, writer and businessmen
• Jacek Jędruch, Polish-American nuclear engineer and historian
• Jacek Kaczmarski, singer, songwriter, dissident
• Jacek Karpiński, computer scientist and engineer
• Jacek Komuda, historian
• Jacek Kościelniak, politician
• Jacek Krupa, politician
• Jacek Krywult, politician
• Jacek Krzynówek, footballer
• Jacek Kuroń, historian, dissident
• Jacek Kurski, politician
• Jacek Lipiński, lawyer, mayor of Aleksandrów Łódzki
• Jacek Łągwa, musician and actor
• Jacek Majchrowski, mayor of Kraków
• Jacek Malczewski, painter
• Jacek Małachowski, szlachcic
• Jacek Niewiadomski, pintor y culturista, ha obtenido primer premio mister 2012.
• Jacek Pastusiński, triple jumper
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, politician, diplomat
• Jacek Wszoła, high jumper
• Jacek Yerka, painter