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As such, the seven are elevated to the sky as "The Seven Stars" (the Pleiades). [121] The Irish writer Lucinda Riley has published a series of books about The seven sisters that is based on the Pleiades of the ancient Greek mythology. [122]
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]
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 ...
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]
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.
In Indian astronomy and Jyotiṣa (Hindu astrology) the name literally translates to "the cutters". [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").
Celaeno is the name of the chief Goddess in the Celaeno Series by Jane Fletcher. Celaeno (CeCe) is the main character of book 4 (The Pearl Sister) in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley Notes