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Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams, published in 1984. It is set in the Beklan Empire , the fictional world of Adams's 1974 novel Shardik , to which it stands as a loose prequel, taking place a few years earlier.
Maia is the daughter of Atlas [3] [4] and Pleione the Oceanid, and is the oldest of the seven Pleiades. [5] They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia , [ 4 ] and are sometimes called mountain nymphs , oreads ; Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" (Maiados oureias) "of the lovely black eyes."
Maia: The second daughter of the seven Pleiades, who visits the children during their Christmas shopping to buy presents for all of her six sisters. The Hamadryad: An old and wise snake (a king cobra), stated to be "the King of all beasts", who is Mary Poppins's first cousin once removed on her mother's side. He lives at London Zoo.
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The Pleiades were nymphs, and along with their half sisters, were called Atlantides, Modonodes, or Nysiades and were the caretakers of the infant Bacchus. [4] Orion pursued the Pleiades named Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope after he fell in love with their beauty and grace. Artemis asked Zeus to protect the ...
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