Ixion was king of the Lapiths. Ixion was expelled from Olympus and blasted with a thunderbolt. Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning. Therefore, Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens, but in later myth transferred to Tartarus. Only when Orpheus played his lyre during his trip to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop for a while.

Iksjon – według mitologii greckiej król Lapitów i pierwszy człowiek, który zabił swojego krewnego, Ejoneusa, za co został strącony do Tartaru, gdzie przykuto go do wiecznie obracającego się, płonącego koła.