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	Cthulhu Mythos
		Aldebaran, a star\n* Bast, cat goddess of ancient Egypt \n* Celaeno, also Celano, home of Thomas of Celaeno, author of the Dies Irae \n* Fomalhaut, a star\n* Hypnos, god of sleep in Greek mythology \n* Irem, a legendary buried city from Islamic mythology, possibly based on Ubar \n* Olatho�, an ancient city frozen in ice.
		Some of these may in fact be Great Old Ones, Great Ones, Elder Gods, Outer Gods or Avatars; if so, please move them to the appropriate category.
		Reportedly in Alaska.\n* Pluto, identified by Lovecraft with Yuggoth\n* The Voynich Manuscript \n* Wendigo, borrowed from Native American mythology \n* Olaus Wormius, Danish antiquary cited as translator of the Necronomicon
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/c/ct/cthulhu_mythos.html

	Celaeno -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		One of the (A star cluster in the constellation Taurus) Pleiades, Celaeno was ((Greek mythology) the god of the sea and earthquakes in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and Hades and Hera; identified with Roman Neptune) Poseidon's lover and had one son, (Click link for more info and facts about Lycus) Lycus, with him.
		In (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different beings.
		One of the (Click link for more info and facts about harpies) harpies, Celaeno ("the dark") was also known as Podarge ("fleet-foot").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ce/Celaeno.htm (179 words)

	* Sterope - (Astronomy): Definition
		The seven "sisters" are Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta and Celaeno; Atlas and Pleione are their "father" and "mother"...
		Unlike their half-sisters the Hyades, the names of all seven Pleiades are assigned to stars in the cluster: Alcyone, Asterope (also known as Sterope), Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope and Taygete...
		The sisters are, Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Celaeno, Merope and Sterope.
	www.bestknows.com /astronomy/sterope.html (322 words)

	Talk:Dies Irae - InfoSearchPoint.com
		'Celaeno' is a star, one of the Pleiades.
		I've seen it both ways, but "Celaeno" seems to me to be the more frequently used, even if it is wrong.
		Celano is the town in the Abruzzi associated with this poet.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Talk:Dies_Irae (114 words)

	Greek Mythology: CELAENO / KELAINO Pleiad Nymph of Boeotia
		Greek Mythology: CELAENO / KELAINO Pleiad Nymph of Boeotia
		KELAINO was a PLEIAS Star-NYMPHE loved by the god Poseidon.
		Euphemus, Lycus and Nycteus by Celaeno daughter of Ergeus." - Hyginus, Fabulae 157
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheKelaino.html (215 words)

	The Pleiades
		Zeus first transformed the sisters into doves, and then into stars to enable them to escape the attention of Orion, who for seven long years pursued the maidens, and Pleione, to claim them for himself.
		According to one legend, only six of the stars can be seen because Merope hid herself in shame over marrying a mortal.
		The sisters are Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Taygeta, Maia, Electra, and Asterope.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/pleiades.html (215 words)

	Klarkash-Ton and the Cthulhu Mythos by Chris Jarocha-Ernst
		Mentions Azathoth; Book of Eibon; Celaeno; Elder Gods; Haon-Dor; Ubbo-Sathla; Y'qaa; Smith, Clark Ashton; (Great) Old Ones; du Nord, Gaspard; Tsathoggua; Yog-Sothoth; Cthulhu; Elder Keys; (Elder) Records; Voormithadreth, Mt.; Hyperborea; Tsath-yo; Eibon; Sarnath; Faber, (Caius) Philippus; Polar Ones (Old Ones).
		(Lest readers feel this to be a violation of an author's wishes, they should realize there is a CAS text fragment, "The Infernal Star", that combines references to most of Smith's own cycles, so that the thought was not entirely alien to him.)
		Clark Ashton Smith, "In the Book of Vergama", in Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith, Steve Behrends with Donald Sidney-Fryer and Rah Hoffman, ed., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1989.
	www.eldritchdark.com /bio/cas_and_the_cthulhu_mythos.html (215 words)

	Cthulhu Mythos Timeline
		One set of the tablets is eventually taken to the Great Library of Celaeno, on the fourth planet around the star Celaeno.
		The stone tablets that become the Celaeno Fragments are scribed around the middle Triassic.
		Between 250 and 200 million years ago: If the G'harne Fragments are believed, the city of G'harne had been built by the Triassic period.
	www.dracandros.com /Jebgarg/Nidoking/cthuchrono.htm (215 words)

	Yannie
		The information below was taken from Burnham's ; Thomas Bullfinch's The Age of Fable, 1913, Heritage Press; The Reader's Encyclopedia 2/e by William Rose Benet, 1965, Thomas Y. Crowell Company; and Ian Ridpath's Star Tales, 1988, Universe Books.
		If you are aware of additional information or corrections, please let me know.
		The mythology associated with the Pleiades cluster is extensive; Burnham's Celestial Handbook (Revised & Enlarged Edition, 1976, Robert Burnham Jr., Dover Publications Inc.) devotes eight pages to the subject.
	www.circle-of-light.com /Psychic_Readings/yannie.html (215 words)

	Arachnion, n. 2 - Hunter: Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the «Phaenomena» of Aratus
		By name those seven stars are Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and revered Maia.
		No star has disappeared from Zeus' sky without a trace in all the time of which we know, but the story is told.
		The translation offered follows the standard interpretation of these difficult verses, which goes back to the scholia.
	www.cisi.unito.it /arachne/num2/hunter.html (215 words)

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