ギリシア神話では、イユンクス(Greek: Ἴϋγξ, 訳注:Íÿnx)はアルカディアのオーレッドのニンフで、[[パーン]]と[[エーコー]]の娘であった。神話では、彼女は[[ゼウス]]に魔法をかけ、[[ゼウス]]はイーオーと恋に落ちたと言われている。 その結果、ヘーラーは彼女をイユンクス(Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla)と呼ばれる鳥に変身させた<ref>Scholia on Theocritus 2. 17, on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. 380, Nemean Ode 4. 56; Tzetzes on Lycophron 310. (cited in Smith)</ref>。
イユンクスの玩具は、金属や木でできた小さな円盤を、付属の紐を引っ張って回転させるもので、現代のボタン式の渦巻きおもちゃに似ている<ref>Hoorn Gerard van, Choes and Anthesteria, 1951, Brill Archive , https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Choes_and_Anthesteria/dcwUAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=iynx+disc&pg=PA46&printsec=frontcover, 22 August 2022</ref>。
''Iynx'' toys were small metal or wooden discs rotated by pulling attached strings, in a manner similar to more modern [[Whirligig#Button_whirligigs|button whirligig toys]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoorn |first1=Gerard van |title=Choes and Anthesteria |date=1951 |publisher=Brill Archive |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Choes_and_Anthesteria/dcwUAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=iynx+disc&pg=PA46&printsec=frontcover |access-date=22 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> == Mythology 神話 ==
Iynx was an [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadian]] [[nymph]] and the daughter of [[Pan (god)|Pan]] and [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]], or [[Peitho]]. She was the creator of a magical love-charm known as the ''iynx''—a spinning wheel with a wryneck bird attached. Iynx used her enchantments to make Zeus fall in love with her or with the nymph [[Io (mythology)|Io]]. Hera was enraged and transformed her into a wryneck bird.<ref>{{Citation|title=II. Epistula IIb ad Serapionem und Epistula III ad Serapionem|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110227710.32|work=Athanasius Werke Band 1, Teil 1: Epistulae I-IV ad Serapionem|year=2010|place=Berlin, New York|publisher=De Gruyter|doi=10.1515/9783110227710.32|isbn=978-3-11-022771-0|access-date=2021-02-09}}</ref>