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- Hyades – Mythopedia
The Hyades, daughters of the Titan Atlas, were goddesses who were placed in the night sky as a cluster of stars They were associated above all with the rainy season It was said that they made into stars after dying of grief for their dead brother, or, alternatively, as a reward for nursing Dionysus
- Nymphs – Mythopedia
The nymphs were minor divinities who took the form of beautiful young women They represented diverse aspects of nature, including water, mountains, trees, and even specific locales They were also frequently divided into subgroups (such as Dryads, Naiads, and Nereids) according to the type of environment they inhabited
- Atlas – Mythopedia
Atlas was a Greek Titan famed for his prodigious strength and endurance, condemned to shoulder the heavens for eternity He once passed the burden of holding up the world to the hero Hercules, but was tricked into taking it back
- Dionysus – Mythopedia
Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, revelry, inspiration, and fertility His festivals famously featured intoxication and religious ecstasy
- Hesperides – Mythopedia
The Hesperides were goddesses or nymphs associated with the evening and the West They guarded the golden apples of Hera, located in the famous Garden of the Hesperides in the Far West
- Metamorphoses: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The stormy Hyades, the rainy Goat, The bright Taygete, and the shining Bears, With all the sailor’s catalogue of stars “Once, as by chance for Delos I design’d, My vessel, driv’n by a strong gust of wind, Moor’d in a Chian Creek; a-shore I went, And all the following night in Chios spent When morning rose, I sent my mates to bring
- Oceanids – Mythopedia
The Oceanids were gentle water nymphs, the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys Scattered across the world, their main responsibility was caring for the young
- Works and Days (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Show them to the sun ten days and ten nights: then cover them over for five, and on the sixth day draw off into vessels the gifts of joyful Dionysus But when the Pleiades and Hyades and strong Orion begin to set [31], then remember to plough in season: and so the completed year [32] will fitly pass beneath the earth
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