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The Pleiades' parents were the Titan Atlas [5] and the Oceanid Pleione [6] born on Mount Cyllene. In some accounts, their mother was called Aethra, another Oceanid. [7] Aside from the above-mentioned sisters (the Hyades), the Pleiades' other siblings were Hyas and the nymph Calypso who was famous in the tale of Odysseus.
The astrological Pleiades were described in Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (Köln, 1533, but published manuscript as early as 1510). In Western astrology they represent coping with sorrow [19] and were considered a single one of the medieval fixed stars. As such, they are associated with quartz [citation needed ...
The Gaia Data Release 1 team were cautious about their result, and the VLBI authors assert "that the Hipparcos-measured distance to the Pleiades cluster is in error". The most recent distance estimate of the distance to the Pleiades based on the Gaia Data Release 3 is 135.74 ± 0.10 pc .
Peleiades (Greek: Πελειάδες, "doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona. Pindar made a reference to the Pleiades as the "peleiades" a flock of doves, but the connection seems witty and poetical, rather than mythic.
The New York Times reports that the Carleton Sheets infomercials that were ubiquitous a couple years ago are now off the air, as the real estate training mogul struggles with his tarnished ...
The name is derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades. Only three of the magazines are still published as physical magazines. The seven magazines are: Better Homes and Gardens (1922–) Family Circle (1932–2019) Good Housekeeping (1885–) Ladies' Home Journal (1883–2016) McCall's (1873–2002) Redbook ...
The Belvedere Estate was originally part of Philipsburg Manor, a 90,000-acre property built for Florence and Casper Whitney. It's situated on more than 25 acres of land and was once the center of ...
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]