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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]
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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 ...
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).
His name is attested in Mycenaean Greece, [110] and there is evidence of him having been worshipped continuously from the 15th century BC. [111] His cult was more far-reaching than that of any other Greek god; [ 112 ] his festivals, which could be found across the Greek world, often featured drunkenness and revelry, [ 113 ] and included the ...
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 ...
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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 . [ 2 ]