Ceyx

Ceyx (Greek Κήυξ, Latinized Ceyx " Kingfisher " ) was a mythical king of Trachis, son of Hesperus and the nymph Philonis and husband of Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus.

According to the illustration of Ovid 's Metamorphoses in ( 11.410 ff) Keyx his wife in deepest love was bound and ruled his kingdom in peace without violence and weapons. On the crossing to Ionia, where he wanted to ask the oracle of Apollo at Claros after the death of his brother Daidalion, his ship by a strong storm was captured and sunk on the spot. His last words are said to have been considered his beloved wife. This was not aware of the accident and wove clothes on the occasion of his return. But when they prayed at the altar of Juno for his safe return, this was the messenger of the gods Iris after Morpheus, the god of wax and prophetic dreams send. This should be the poor woman appear in my dreams as her husband and report the accident. Her grief was great, and when she complained on the shore, from which she had looked up the departing one, she discovered Keyx ' corpse and plunged into the depths.

But they were both transformed by the Thetis has mercy in halcyones ( Lieste, a subspecies of kingfishers ). Alkyones father Aeolus gave them to the breeding season a seven-day lull, the proverbial " halcyon days ".