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The main myth concerning them is envisioned to account for their collective name and to provide an etiology for their weepy raininess: Hyas was killed in a hunting accident and the Hyades wept from their grief. [10] They were changed into a cluster of stars, the Hyades, set in the head of Taurus. [11]
The mythological use for a Hyas, apparently a back formation from Hyades, may simply have been to provide a male figure to consort with the archaic rain-nymphs, the Hyades, a chaperone responsible for their behavior, as all the archaic sisterhoods— even the Muses— needed to be controlled under the Olympian world-picture (Ruck and Staples).
Pages in category "Hyades (mythology)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Dionysus was entrusted as a child to Ambrosia and her sisters, the Hyades. Later, Lycurgus assaulted the child Dionysus who was crossing his lands on Mount Nysa , escorted by the hyades. Lycurgus pursued and killed Ambrosia during this assault while her other sisters escaped and took refuge with Thetis . [ 3 ]
Arawn, king of Annwn in some Welsh legends and associated with hunting, dogs and stags; Cernunnos, a horned god associated with fertility and hunting; Gwyn ap Nudd, another king of Annwn in Welsh Mythology, associated with the Wild Hunt
Polyxo (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ k s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Πολυξώ Poluxṓ) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology: Polyxo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] Polyxo, one of the Hyades. [2] Polyxo, a Naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river ...
Hyades (band) Hyades (mythology) Hyades (star cluster), an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 19:40 (UTC
In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...