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The Pleiades (/ ˈ p l iː. ə d iː z, ˈ p l eɪ-, ˈ p l aɪ-/), [8] [9] also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (drama CD, anime) (Japanese); Ed Blaylock (season 1), Bill Jenkins (season 2-4) (English) The head butler of Nazarick and overseer of the Pleiades, who takes on the form of an elderly gentleman. Although he is not a Floor Guardian, he has abilities on par with them and specializes in unarmed combat.
The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of X-Files fan fiction on the Internet. [1] In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the "big three" single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest single fandom fan fiction archive [2] until the emergence of various Harry Potter archives in ...
The Pleiades (/ ˈ p l iː ə d iː z, ˈ p l eɪ-, ˈ p l aɪ-/; [1] Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation:), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. [2] Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the ...
Electra, along with the rest of the Pleiades, were transformed into stars by Zeus. By some accounts she was the one star among seven of the constellation not easily seen because, since she could not bear to look upon the destruction of Troy, she hid her eyes, or turned away; or in her grief, she abandoned her sisters and became a comet. [3]
Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment [ edit ]
In these stories, the man is called Nyiru [94] or Nirunja, [95] and the Seven Sisters songline known as Kungkarangkalpa. [96] The seven sisters story often features in the artwork of the region. [94] [97] A legend of the Wurundjeri people of south-eastern Australia has it that they are the fire of seven Karatgurk sisters.
Michael Rappenglück of the University of Munich believes that Taurus is represented in a cave painting at the Hall of the Bulls in the caves at Lascaux (dated to roughly 15,000 BC), which he believes is accompanied by a depiction of the Pleiades. [38] [39] The name "seven sisters" has been used for the Pleiades in the languages of many ...