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The Hyades were daughters of Atlas (by either Pleione or Aethra, one of the Oceanids) and sisters of Hyas in most tellings, although one version gives their parents as Hyas and Boeotia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Hyades are sisters to the Pleiades and the Hesperides .
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 ]
In Greek mythology, the Nysiads or Nysiades (Ancient Greek: Νυσιάδες) were Oceanid nymphs of mythical Mount Nysa.Zeus entrusted the infant god Dionysus [1] to their care, and the Nysiads raised him with the assistance of the old satyr-god Silenus.
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 Classical Greek mythology, Taygete (/ t eɪ ˈ ɪ dʒ ə t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ταϋγέτη, Ancient Greek: [taːyɡétɛː], Modern Greek:) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to the Bibliotheca (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals", with its likely roots in prehistory.
Maia is the daughter of Atlas [3] [4] and Pleione the Oceanid, and is the oldest of the seven Pleiades. [5] They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia , [ 4 ] and are sometimes called mountain nymphs , oreads ; Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" (Maiados oureias) "of the lovely black eyes."
In Greek mythology, Sterope (/ ˈ s t ɛr ə p iː /; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, [sterópɛː], from στεροπή, steropē, lightning), [1] also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades.
The Pleiades was the most well-known "star" among pre-Islamic Arabs and so often referred to simply as "the Star" (an-Najm; النجم). [43] Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades are the "star" mentioned in Surah An-Najm ("The Star") in the Quran. [44]
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