Kyane

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Kyane ( Greek  Κυάνη "Blue", lat. Cyane ) was in Greek mythology a Naiad of Cianequelle in Sicily. She was associated with the river god Anapos .

According to Ovid , Cyane was a playmate of Persephone (Proserpina), the daughter of Demeter (Ceres), and strolled with her and the nymph Arethusa on a meadow of flowers near Enna in Sicily on Lake Pergusa , which was considered the entrance to the underworld, as Hades ( Pluto) robbed Persephone and took him to the underworld. She was brave enough to try to prevent the robbery, but Hades split the earth and drove his car down into the underworld. Kyane was so heartbroken over her failure that she literally fell into tears and was turned into the Ciane Spring :

Between Cyane and Pisa's spring Arethusa lies,
A closed bay narrowed by protruding horns.
There was the one from whom the pond received the name,
Cyane, famous above all Sicilian nymphs.
Who, rising to the waist from the middle of the tide,
Had recognized the goddess and called: ›Not further on the way!
Are you allowed to become her oath in spite of Ceres? Just requests
Were entitled to you, not robbery. If so with great little things
Allow me to compare; Anapis was free for me too ;
But I follow him asked and not, like this one, frightened. '
Cyane spoke, and arms stretched to different sides
Block them in the way. The Saturnian couldn't hold his anger any longer.
But he drove his cruel team and the king scepter
He swung with a strong arm and threw it deep into the whirlpool.
Behold, the way to Tartarus came upon the struck earth
And in the middle of the throat gave a picture of the falling car.
Cyane now mourned the goddess robbery and the source
So disregarded law, and she bears an inconsolable wound
Silent in a secret chest and consumed completely in teeth,
And in the flowing tide, in it as a god
Waved, it is diluted. You saw how the body softened
The bone becomes pliable and the nails lose their hardness;
And of the whole figure becomes liquid first, what is thinnest,
First her bluish hair, then fingers and thighs and feet -
It is easy to articulate in cold water
To pass over. The shoulders on it and back and side
Fade away and melt the breast into trickling streams.
At last the living blood replaced in the damaged blood vessels
Water, and there is nothing left that can be grasped with the hands.
Ovid Metamorphoses 5, 409-437. Translation by Reinhart Suchier.

When Demeter came to this spring in search of her daughter, she threw out Persephone's lost belt so that Demeter could guess what had happened.

Diodorus reports of an annual festival at the source sanctuary of the Kyane.

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