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Several of the most prominent male Olympian gods (including Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares) engaged in affairs with the seven heavenly sisters. These relationships resulted in the birth of their children. Maia, eldest [8] of the seven Pleiades, was mother of Hermes by Zeus. [9] Electra, mother of Dardanus [10] and Iasion, [11] by Zeus. [12]
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.
an old name of the Pleiades; personified as the nurses of Kārttikeya, a son of Shiva. Pleiades: Lord: Surya (Sun) Symbol: Knife or spear; Deity : Agni, god of fire; Indian zodiac: 26°40' Mesha - 10° Vrishabha; Western zodiac 20°26' Taurus - 3°46’ Gemini; 4 Rohini - रोहिणी "the red one", a name of Aldebaran. Also known as ...
Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, ... a type of bird known as seven sisters in northern India; ... Seven Sisters (colleges), the name given to seven US liberal arts ...
[1] [2] It is also the name of its goddess-personification, who is a daughter of Daksha [3] and Panchajani, and thus a half-sister to Khyati. Spouse of Kṛttikā is Chandra ("moon"). The six Krittikas who raised the Hindu God Kartikeya are Śiva, Sambhūti, Prīti, Sannati, Anasūya and Kṣamā.
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.
Seven Fairies may refer to: Seven Fairies in Charles Perrault's version of the European tale Sleeping Beauty; Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione; Seven Fairies (China), seven celestial sisters from Chinese mythology; Helloi Taret, from Meitei mythology (Manipuri mythology) in Northeast India
The lyric poet Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–468 BC), is the first (datable) source to connect the name of the star-cluster with the seven daughters of Atlas. [19] The names of the seven Pleiades are first attested in a scholion on Pindar, which quotes three hexameter lines from an unattributed poem, probably from the Hesiodic corpus: [20]