Talk:Hyades (mythology)

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Encyclopaedia Britannica[edit]

Entry from the public domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica:

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. 2I). Another form of the story combines them with the Pleiades. According to this they were twelve (of 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 stars-five 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 7-21); the original conception of them is that of the fertilizing principle of moisture. The Romans derived the name from ûç (pig), and translated it by Suculae (Cicero, De nat. deorum, ii. 43).

- Eric (talk) 09:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC) SO CONFUSING!!!!!!![reply]

They "bring rain"?[edit]

This needs a source? Ballentine, "Some Phases of the Cult of Nymphs", p. 77 says:

"There is little evidence that the nymphs were regarded as rain-dieties among the Greeks." Then goes on to discuss such evidence as he can find ... Paul August ☎ 13:20, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]