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The Hyades are also thought to have been the tutors of Dionysus, in some tellings of the latter's infancy, [4] and as such are equated with the Nysiads, the nymphs who are also believed to have cared for Dionysus, [14] as well as with other reputed nurses of the god—the Lamides, [15] the Dodonides [6] and the nymphs of Naxos. [16]
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).
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However, etymologically, the name of the star-cluster likely came first, and Pleione's name indicated that she was the mother of the Pleiades. [3] According to another suggestion Pleiades derived from πλεῖν ( plein , "to sail") because of the cluster's importance in delimiting the sailing season in the Mediterranean Sea : "the season of ...
List of Greek primordial deities; Ancient Greek name English name Description Ἀχλύς (Akhlús) Achlys: The goddess of poisons, and the personification of misery and sadness. Said to have existed before Chaos itself. Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr) Aether: The god of light and the upper atmosphere. Αἰών (Aiōn) Aion
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 ]
Other nymphs included the Hesperides (evening nymphs), the Hyades (rain nymphs), and the Pleiades (companions of Artemis). Nymphs featured in classic works of art, literature, and mythology. They are often attendants of goddesses and frequently occur in myths with a love motif, being the lovers of heroes and other deities. [4]
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 ...