Pleiădğs

Pleiădğs (Eng. Pleiades), in Greek myth, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and Pleionē. Their names were Maia (the mother of Hermēs by Zeus), Tāygetē, Ēlectra, Alcyonē, Asteropē, Celaeno, and Meropē. They were pursued by Orion and he and they were turned into constellations (as were their sisters the Hyadğs). The Pleiads, a cluster of seven stars, have special significance for marking the seasons, in particular the time for sowing and planting. In Hesiod, the first rising of the Pleiads before sunrise (early May) marks harvest-time, their setting just before sunrise (at the beginning of November) marks the time for ploughing and sowing. The name is very old and of uncertain meaning.