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HYADES (" the rainy ones ")

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 26 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HYADES (" the rainy ones ") , in Greek mythology, the daughters of Atlas and Aethra; their number varies between two and seven. As a reward for having brought up Zeus at Dodona and taken care of the infant Dionysus Hyes, whom they conveyed to Ino (
sister
  of his mother Semele) at Thebes when his life was threatened by Lycurgus, they were translated to heaven and placed among the stars (Hyginus, Poet. astron. ii. 21). Another form of the story combines them with the Pleiades. According to this they were twelve (or fifteen) sisters, whose brother Hyas was killed by a snake while
hunting
  in
Libya
  (Ovid,
Fasti
 , v. 165; Hyginus, Fab. 192). They lamented him so bitterly that Zeus, out of compassion, changed them into starsfive into the Hyades, at the head of the constellation of the
Bull
 , the
remainder
  into the Pleiades. Their name is derived from the fact that the
rainy
  season commenced when they rose at the same time as the sun (May 721); the
original
  conception of them is that of the fertilizing principle of moisture. The Romans derived the name from us (pig), and translated it by Suculae (Cicero, De nat. deorum, ii. 43)


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