Pleiades
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The Pleiades are listed as spirits that serve Inti’s court, functioning as celestial attendants. They are part of the group of celestial beings that accompany the sun god.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Ancient Greece.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Venus, Manco Cápac, Willaq Umu, Pachacuti, Meliae, Oceanid, Oread, Nereids, Dryads, Alseids, Naiads, Heliades, Zeus, Orion, Maia, Coccymo, Glaucia, Protis, Parthenia, Stonychia, Lampado, Pachamama, Inti, Mama Ocllo, Mama Quilla, Viracocha, Rainbow
- aspect of
- nymphs
- allied with
- Artemis (Diana)
- sibling of
- Hyades, Taygete, Hyas, Calypso, Hesperides
- teacher of
- Dionysus
- manifested by
- Four Hundred Boys, Kungkarangkalpa, Karatgurk
- syncretized with
- Seven Sisters
Mentioned by
- Pachamama
- Inti
- Mama Ocllo
- Mama Quilla
- Viracocha
- Rainbow
- Taygete
- Hyas
- Calypso
- Hesperides
- Four Hundred Boys
- Kungkarangkalpa
- Karatgurk
- Seven Sisters
- Pleione
- Atlas
and 1 more
Sources
internet (1)
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Their court is served by the Rainbow, the Pleiades, Venus, and others.”
#922 · extracted by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
“Other nymphs included the Hesperides (evening nymphs), the Hyades (rain nymphs), the Heliades (poplar tree nymphs, daughters of Helios), and the Pleiades (companions of Artemis).”
#7589 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Although most accounts are uniform as to the number, names, and main myths concerning the Pleiades, the mythological information recorded by a scholiast on Theocritus' Idylls with reference to Callimachus has nothing in common with the traditional version.”
#43399 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001