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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).
In Greek mythology, Ambrosia was one of the three or five Hyades. She was the sister of Aesyle ( Phaesyle ) and Eudora , [ 2 ] and Coronis and Polyxo . Mythology
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In Greek mythology, the Hyades were the five daughters of Atlas and half-sisters to the Pleiades. After the death of their brother, Hyas, the weeping sisters were transformed into a cluster of stars that was afterwards associated with rain. [17] As a naked-eye object, the Hyades cluster has been known since prehistoric times.
There are several characters in Greek mythology by the name Coronis (Ancient Greek: Κορωνίς, -ίδος "crow" or "raven", among others [1]). These include: Coronis, one of the Hyades. Corone, a daughter of King Coronaeus of Phocis who fled from Poseidon and was changed into a crow by Athena. [2] Coronis, a Maenad who was raped by Butes ...
In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa (Ancient Greek: Νῦσα, romanized: Nûsa), variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Boeotia, Thrace, India, or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant god Dionysus, the "God of Nysa."
Hyades may refer to: Hyades (band) Hyades (mythology) Hyades (star cluster), an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus This page was last edited on 28 ...