Lilac

An ancient Greek legend says that there was a young Pan the god of the forests and fields and once he met a beautiful nymph Syringa a tender bulletin of the morning dawn. He admired her grace and beauty and decided to talk to her. But she scared and ran away. Pan tried to run her down but she suddenly turned into an aroma bush of lilac. Pan burst out with tears near to the bush. Then he started to wander in forests and make good for everybody. And the name of Syringa became the Latin name of lilac.
The other legend says that the lilac’s flowers came to us when the Spring drove away snow from fields and raised the sun higher. The sun with the rainbow went above the Earth. Than the Spring gathered some sun beams merged them with some rainbow beams and started to throw them on the Earth. When the Spring reached the north she had only white and violet colors. There were Scandinavian lands below the Spring. Then the Spring threw lilac colors to the small bushes which covered with small flowers. Then she had only white color and the Spring scattered it on the Earth. In the places where she threw white colors grew up a lot of white lilac bushes.
Lilac got it’s name from a Greek word “syrinx” which means “pipe” because from lilacs wood herders made pipes. But in Russia it is called also as “sinel” from the word “blue” because the active color define one of the tints of plants.