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Hyacinth was a beautiful boy and loved the god Apollo , he was also admired by West Wind, Zephyr. Apollo and Hyacinth took turns throwing the discus. Hyacinth ran to catch it to impress Apollo, but got struck by the discus as it fell to the ground, and died. The wind god Zephyrus was responsible for the death of Hyacinth. He was jealous because Hyacinth preferred the radiant archery god Apollo, Zephyrus blew Apollo's discus off course so it would injure and kill Hyacinth. When he died, Apollo didn't allow Hades to claim the boy, and he made a flower, the hyacinth, from his spilled blood. The tears of Apollo stained the newly formed flower's petals with ai, ai, the sign of his grief. The flower of the mythological Hyacinth has been identified with a number of plants other than the true hyacinth, such as the iris 