Geography/Culture: Greek: Aeolian, Mount Cyllene in Arcadia.
Description: Seven-fold Goddess of the sea in all moods from tranquility to violent storm.
To Whom Sacred: dove; kingfisher; the constellation Pleiades.
Festival: May, the rising of the Pleiades, and the beginning of the navigational year; early in November, the setting of the Pleiades and the end of the navigational year.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alcyone, (qv), is Their leader.
• Companions of Artemis, High-source-of-Water, presumably in the sense that the constellation of the Pleiades is sometimes accompanying the moon.
• Asterie, qv Eurynome, is also said to be one of the Pleiades.
• Also called Atlantides, below.
• See also Dione.
• Electra, (qv), is sometimes said to be one of them.
• In India the Pleiades are known at the Krittikas, Who are linked with Ganga.
• For more on Maia, see below.
• For more on Merope, see below.
• Daughters of Pleione, and also the name of one of them, see below.
• Sterope, ST=ROPA, also has the alternate meaning of: Lightning.
• Taygete, T9GATA, one of the seven Pleiades.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: looks like -ides is Greek for 'children', or perhaps specifically 'daughters'. Related English word: Atlantic.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant: Atlantiades.
• The Hyades, qv, are also called Atlantides.
• Alternate name for the Pleiades, above.
• Daughters of Pleione, below.

Geography/Culture: Greek: especially Mount Cyllene, in Arcadia.
Linguistic Note: maia, good mother, dame. 2. a foster-mother, nurse. Also a true mother.
Description: Originally Goddess of the night sky.
Later: Nymph Goddess; Maia of the the fair tresses.
To Whom Sacred: cave (in which She lived and bore Hermes); winnowing-basket (used as a cradle for Hermes); fan (possibly a false interpretation of the winnowing-basket in an image).
Male Associates: son, Hermes, ----, psychopomp and God of theives, by lover Zeus, ----. She reared Arcas (or Arcus), perhaps meaning She was his Wetnurse.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She reared Arcas {check spelling - its Arcus under Callisto} after the "death" of Callisto, qv.
• Perhaps also called: Cyllene, qv Callisto, Who was Hermes' Nurse.
• Identified with Roman and Gallic Maia, qv Rosmerta.
• Eldest, or some say youngest, of the Pleiades, above.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Aeolian.
Description: {She may be the Mother of the Pleiades, one of Whom is called after Her; or perhaps the Pleiades could be conceived of as composed of Mother and Daughters, if so, is there a brightest star in the constellation? Is it named after Her?}
Male Associates: consort, Atlas, ----, the oak hero.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Since Aithra, qv Hyades, also has Atlas as a consort and is also Mother of the Hyades, Aithra and Pleione may be the same Goddess, or Aithra may be Mother of the Hyades, and Pleione Mother of the Pleiades.
• Some say Mother of the Hyades, qv, but they are also attributed other Mothers.
• Mother of the Pleiades.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Aeolian.
Male Associates: rapist, Orion, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Helice, qv.
• One of the seven-fold Pleiades, Sailing-Ones, above. But see Harpyiai, and Telchines - and what is the source?}

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  Calaeno, {Heavenly}.
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