Daedalus and Perdix--Jenna Theisen

"It is natural to suppose that the various events of the agricultural year were celebrated by the Egyptian farmer with some simple religious rites designed to secure the blessing of the gods upon his labours" (429).

One day when Daedalus was burying his son, he saw a bird flapping its wings. Daedalus knew this was no ordinary bird. He knew it was his dead nephew Perdix.

Long ago when Perdix was only twelve years old, he came to stay with Daedalus and his wife. The boy wanted to observe Daedalus make things, so he would try and be just like him. Perdix studied Daedalus and started taking Daedalus' inventions to the next level. Instead of inventing a blade, Perdix went one step further and put teeth along the sharp blade to make a saw. Daedalus was enraged his nephew invented this new object without his approval. He was so enraged he threw Perdix down from Minerva's citadel and said he fell. Minerva quickly turned Perdix's clothes into feathers and gave him wings to fly. Perdix was turned into a bird just before he hit the ground.

Perdix was turned into a Partridge. To this day Partridges lay their eggs in lower shrubs and do not dare to fly too high because of the fall Perdix took.