Cy'ane
(
Κυάνη), a Sicilian nymph and playmate of Proserpina, who was changed through grief at the loss of Proserpina into a well. The Syracusans celebrated an annual festival on that spot, which Heracles was said to have instituted. and at which a bull was sunk into the well as a sacrifice. (
Diod. 5.4;
Ov. Met. 5.412, &c.)
A daughter of Liparus was likewise called Cyane. (
Diod. 5.7.)
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