In Greek mythology, Taygete (Greek: Ταϋγέτη, in Modern Greek Taygeti, Taigeti) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to Apollodorus (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals." Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the Goddess, was her haunt. Olympic Zeus pursued Taygete, who invoked Artemis. The goddess turned Taygete into a doe, and since in this form Zeus raped her, any distinction between the Titaness in her human form and in her doe ...

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Taygete (Ancient Greek). One of the seven daughters of Atlas third, who became later one of the Pleiades. These seven daughters are said to typify the seven sub-races of the fourth root-race, that of the Atlanteans.

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Taygeta or Taygete taugete (Greek) One of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, who in one sense represent the seven subraces of Atlantis.

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In Greek mythology Artemis (World Book «AHR tuh mihs») (Greek Άρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In later times she was conflated with the goddess Diana of Roman mythology. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. Artemis - Worship. She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, s ...

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The Carme group is made up of moons of Jupiter which share similar orbits. Their semi-major axes range between 22.9 and 24.1 Gm, their inclinations between 164.9° and 165.5°, and their eccentricities between 0.23 and 0.27 (with one exception). The seventeen members of the group are (in order of increasing distance from Jupiter): S/2003 J 17 S/2003 J 10 Pasithee Chaldene Arche Isonoe Erinome Kale Aitne Taygete S/2003 J 9 ...

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The Pleiades Πληιόνης (pleye'-a-deez, also plee'-a-deez), companions of Artemis (ar'-te-mis), were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas (at'-las) and the sea-nymph Pleione (pleye-oh'-nee) born on Mount Cyllene (seye-lee'-nee). They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, ...

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In Greek mythology, the Charites (Χάριτες; Greek: "Graces") were goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. They ordinarily numbered three, from youngest to oldest: Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Good Cheer"), and Thalia ("Festivities"). In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae. The Charites were usually considered the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, though they were also said to be daughters of Dionysus and Aphrodite or of Helios and the naiad Aegle. Homer wrote that they ...

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(Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatures. List of Greek mythological characters - Immortals. List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus. Aphrodite - Goddess of beauty and Love Apollo - God of healing, light, and poetry, patron of scribes Arês - God of war Artemis - Goddess of the hunt and the moon Athena - G ...

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Artemis - Callisto. Artemis killed any of her companions who lost their virginity, such as Maera and Callisto. One of Artemis' companions, Callisto, lost her virginity to Zeus, who had come disguised as Artemis. Enraged, Artemis changed her into a bear. Callisto's son, Arcas, nearly killed his mother while hunting, but Zeus or Artemis stopped him and placed them both in the sky as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. ...

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Artemis, Artemis - Worship, Artemis - Diana, Artemis - Artemis in art, Artemis - Appellations, Artemis - Birth, Artemis - Childhood, Artemis - Men, Artemis - Actaeon, Artemis - Adonis, Artemis - Siproites, Artemis - Orion, Artemis - Other stories, Artemis - Callisto, Artemis - Agamemnon and Iphigenia, Artemis - Niobe, Artemis - Taygete, Artemis - Otus and Ephialtes, Artemis - The Meleagrids, Artemis - Chione, Artemis - Atalanta and Oeneus, Artemis - Artemis in Neopaganism

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She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin. At some point in the Classical period, she was identified by some with Hecate, the primal, pre-Olympian feral goddess. She much later became more identified with and eventually supplanted Selene as the moon goddess to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of Helios as the sun god. Artemis also assimilated Caryatis (Carya). Her priestesses were addressed with th ...

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Artemis, Artemis - Worship, Artemis - Diana, Artemis - Artemis in art, Artemis - Appellations, Artemis - Birth, Artemis - Childhood, Artemis - Men, Artemis - Actaeon, Artemis - Adonis, Artemis - Siproites, Artemis - Orion, Artemis - Other stories, Artemis - Callisto, Artemis - Agamemnon and Iphigenia, Artemis - Niobe, Artemis - Taygete, Artemis - Otus and Ephialtes, Artemis - The Meleagrids, Artemis - Chione, Artemis - Atalanta and Oeneus, Artemis - Artemis in Neopaganism

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Artemis - Actaeon. She was once bathing nude in the woods when the Theban prince and hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. He was so stunned that he accidentally stepped on a twig, and Artemis noticed him. She was so disgusted at his stares that she changed him to a stag and set his own hounds to kill him. He was torn apart by the deadly hunting dogs, who never knew that the stag they were hunting was their own master. Alternatively, Actaeon boasted that he was a better hunter than she and Artemis turned him into a stag and he was eaten by his hounds. See also:

Artemis, Artemis - Worship, Artemis - Diana, Artemis - Artemis in art, Artemis - Appellations, Artemis - Birth, Artemis - Childhood, Artemis - Men, Artemis - Actaeon, Artemis - Adonis, Artemis - Siproites, Artemis - Orion, Artemis - Other stories, Artemis - Callisto, Artemis - Agamemnon and Iphigenia, Artemis - Niobe, Artemis - Taygete, Artemis - Otus and Ephialtes, Artemis - The Meleagrids, Artemis - Chione, Artemis - Atalanta and Oeneus, Artemis - Artemis in Neopaganism

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The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Asterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygete, Celaeno and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione. As daughters of Atlas, the Hyades were sisters of the Pleiades. The name of the cluster itself is of Greek origin, though of uncertain etymology. Suggested derivations include: from πλει̂ν plein, to sail, making the Pleiades the "sailing ones"; from pleos, full or many; from peleiades, flock of doves; or from the ancient Persian equivalent name of Parvin. ...

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Although the Graces usually numbered three, according to the Spartans, Cleta, not Thalia, was the third, and other Graces are sometimes mentioned, including Auxo, Charis, Hegemone, Phaenna, and Pasithea. Pausanias interrupts his Description of Greece (book 9.xxxv.1 - 7) to expand upon the various conceptions of the Graces that had developed in different parts of mainland Greece and Ionia: "The Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first man to sacrifice to the Graces. Moreover, they are aware that he established thre ...

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Charites, Charites - Regional differences, Charites - In art

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After Atlas was forced to carry the world on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky. In the Pleiades star cluster only six of the stars shine brightly, the seventh, Merope, shines dully because she is shamed for eternity for having an affair with a mortal. Some myths also say that the star that doesn't shine is Electra, mourning the death of ...

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Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who called the city after his wife, the daughter of Eurotas. But Amyclae and Therapne (Therapnae) seem to have been in early times of greater importance than Sparta, the former a Minoan foundation a few miles to the south of Sparta, the latter probably the Achaean capital of Laconia and the seat of Menelaus, Agamemnon's younger brother. Eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, the Dorian migration took place. A band of Dorians united with a body of Aetolians to cross the Corint ...

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Indeed, the Pleiades must have had considerable charms, for several of the most prominent male Olympian gods (including Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares) engaged in affairs with the seven heavenly sisters - and inevitably, these relationships resulted in the birth of children: Celaeno (se-lee'-noh) was mother of Lycus by Poseidon. Alcyone (al-seye'-a-nee) was mother of Hyrieus by Poseidon. Electra (e-lek'-tra) was mother of Dardanus and Iasion by Zeus. Maia (may'-a, also meye'-a< ...

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The Pleiades are a prominent sight in the northern hemisphere in winter, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Maori and Australian Aborigines, the Japanese and the Sioux of North America. Some Greek astronomers considered them to be their own constellation, and they are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and also by Hesiod. They are also mentioned thr ...

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Under ideal observing conditions, some hint of nebulosity may be seen around the cluster, and this shows up in long-exposure photographs. It is a reflection nebula, caused by dust reflecting the blue light of the hot, young stars. It is often thought that the dust was left over from the formation of the cluster, but at the age of about 100 million years generally accepted for the cluster, almost all the dust originally present would have been dispersed by radiation pressure. Instead, it seems that the cluster is simply passing ...

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On the representation of the Graces, Pausanias wrote, "Who it was who first represented the Graces naked, whether in sculpture or in painting, I could not discover. During the earlier period, certainly, sculptors and painters alike represented them draped. At Smyrna, for instance, in the sanctuary of the Nemeses, above the images have been dedicated Graces of gold, the work of Bupalus; and in the Music Hall in the same city there is a portrait of a Grace, painted by Apelles. At Pergamus likewise, in the chamber of Attalus, are o ...

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Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the H-R diagram for the cluster with theoretical models of stellar evolution, and using this technique, ages for the Pleiades of between 75 and 150 million years have been estimated. The spread in estimated ages is a result of uncertainties in stellar evolution models. In particular, models including a phenomenon known as convective overshoot, in which a convective zone within a star penetrates ...

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