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pleiades
/ˈpliː.əˌdiz/
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What does pleiades mean?
proper noun
- The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
- An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
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The Sea Dayaks are guided by the observation of the position of the Pleiades.
Now the Meamei--Pleiades--belong to the Beewee totem, so does the pine-tree.
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They are husbandmen that sow, oxen treading out corn, sounding trumpets, shining Pleiades and stars remaining in their courses, which cease not to fight against Sisera.
The collision of our extinct sun with one of the Pleiades, after this manner, would very likely suffice to generate even a grander nebula than the one with which we started.
God said, "Because she kept herself aloof from sin, we will place her among the seven stars, that men may never forget her," and she was put in the constellation of the Pleiades.