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I'll start with Hyacinthus.
He was so beautiful that three Gods fell in love with him at once: Zephyrus, the God of the West wind, Boreas, the God of the North wind, Apollo, the God of the sun, and some random human named Thamyris.
Anyway, Hya-kun had great taste and decided to roll with Apollo, clearly the most attractive seme. Apollo loved him so much he hung out with him on Earth. Presumably they screwed a lot. One day they were playing with a discus and Apollo threw it so hard he split the clouds, and when Hya-kun went to catch it, Jealous Zephyrus blew a wind to send it off course; it killed Hya-kun. Probably instantly.
Apollo wept. He had a flower bloom from Hya-kun's blood, the hyacinth. Later on, he resurrected him, but I think that ruins the story.
Anyway, post gay myths. They don't have to be Greek.
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>>5188>>5189>>5190>>5355In a sort of seemingly unrelated way, these remind me of Narcissus, the youth that is traditionally said he fell for his own reflection.
>He had a cruel heart, and hated all of them, till he conceived a love for his own form: He wailed, seeing his face, delightful as a dream, within a spring; he wept for his beauty. Then the boy shed his blood and gave it to the earth… to bear.An excerpt I read on the wiki for Cyparissus:
>The myth of Cyparissus, like that of Hyacinthus, has often been interpreted as reflecting the social custom of pederasty in ancient Greece, with the boy the beloved (eromenos) of Apollo. Pederastic myth represents the process of initiation into adult male life,[3] with a "death" and transfiguration for the eromenos. "In all these tales", notes Karl Kerényi, "the beautiful boys are doubles of [Apollo] himself."[4]The myth of Narcissus reflects back to Apollo that ties some of these together for me in a poetic way at least.
Yes, I did crop out Echo. The only references to "echo" I want to read about are the ones Hylas left behind calling out to Hercules.
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>>5440I forgot to mention another common thread is the disappearance close to bodies of water.