Maia
Maia is the mother of Hermes.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Etruscan influences from the 7th century BCE onward.
Relationships
- consort of
- Zeus
- sibling of
- Alcyone, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, Merope, Celaeno, Coccymo, Glaucia, Protis, Parthenia, Stonychia, Lampado
- aspect of
- Bona Dea
- child of
- Atlas
- syncretized with
- Uni, Sancta Visucia
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Hermes functions as the emissary and messenger of the gods, and is often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad.”
#14411 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Roman mythology, he was the son of Maia, daughter of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter.”
#14522 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“John of Lydia describes how in May the merchants of Rome made vows to Maia and her son Hermes asking for good fortune in their trade, which they called "making the Mayouma", went to Ostia and pushed each other into the sea, enjoying themselves.”
#22878 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“According to it, the Pleiades were daughters of an Amazonian queen; their names were Maia, Coccymo, Glaucia, Protis, Parthenia, Stonychia, and Lampado.”
#43400 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Maia, "a deity known apparently only to the priests and the learned," would be according to Macrobius an indigitation of the Bona Dea”
#46353 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free