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According to Ovid, Cinyras ' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father ( in retribution for her mother Cenchreis ' hybris ), slept with him, became pregnant, and asked the gods to change her into something other than human ; she became a tree from whose bark myrrh drips.

From this incestuous union sprang the child Adonis.

Cinyras was said to have committed suicide over the matter.

Other authors equate Cinyras and Myrrha with king Theias of Assyria and his daughter Smyrna, and relate the same story of them.

Hyginus uses the name Cinyras for the father, but Smyrna for the daughter.