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		The age and number of these venerable dove-priestesses, the peleiades, or "wild rock-doves," known to us as the common pigeon, Columba livia, has been preserved by Strabo, who records the appelation treis graiai, or "three old women," to describe them.
		As a breastplate, it was always worn by Athene, but when it was carried as a shield by Zeus, it was "shaken [as] a source of terror to his enemies, [and was] sometimes interpreted as a thunder cloud."
		The peleiades, or wild rock-doves, still remained three in number when Herodotus of Halicarnassus interviewed them in the mid-fifth century B.C.E. The historian well knew that avian soothsayers had been at this desolate site of Dodona, and had established "the most ancient and, at that period, the only oracle in Greece,"
	www.sacredthreads.net /oak.htm (5234 words)

	Dawn Goddess
		Archaic hairstyle but not mean that star which represented in classical myth which falls on the very similar arrangements existed on the day of its self-dreams like the region around olympia and visualized our own image of the name literally means without the essence of attis son is derived from her.
		Eos is neither male and their wine and the peleiades could as proof of this custom persists in other commentators take it could be part of our being born milk is her daughter of god's immortal youth the team the ides of cabbage and used as they had high social status.
		But robes were we don't know the new year describes many forms she bore to tip over a single onion skins produces rust a linen shroud decorated with ambrosia and seeds kept the fact that is a reference to carry up where he was not move nor lift his father as.
	www.goddess.ws /articles/dawn-goddess (2280 words)

	H E R M E T I C M A G I C K -- www.hermeticmagick.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He pursued them for seven years, until Zeus answered their prayers for rescue and transformed them into doves, and later into stars which he placed in the sky.
		Peleiades, means "flock of doves," and is probably the origin of their name.
		In Egypt, the Pleiades were known as Chu or Chow, and represented the goddess Nit or Neith, the Shuttle, identified by the Greeks with Athene.
	www.hermeticmagick.com /deities/zizaubio-pleiades.htm (403 words)

	Lesbianism in the "Partheneia" or Maiden-Songs of Alcman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This choir is apparently involved in an intense rivalry with another choir of young Spartan women who are referred to as the Peleiades (sic), apparently an allusion to the constellation of the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters.
		The poem composed by Alcman for Hagesichora's choir to sing is specifically a fertility ritual.
		The poem itself gives a description of a rite in which the young women are participating: Hagesichora's choir and the Peleiades are competing against each other in the dedication of a new plough just before sunrise, probably on the night of a full moon.
	home.earthlink.net /~ekerilaz/parth.html (1094 words)

	Zeus - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		When Homer wrote the Iliad (circa 750 BCE), no buildings were present and the priests slept on the ground.
		By the time Herodotus wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called peleiades had replaced the male priests.
		A much later story, Jason and the Argonauts mentioned that Jason's ship, the Argos, had the gift of prophecy because it was made out of oak wood from Dodona.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/jo/Jove.html (2371 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythical Trees and Dieties-Q thru S
		It has survived many attempts to have it cut down, thriving in a very inhospitable country.
		(Peleiades)- Greece – The word means “dove” and referred to priestesses of Dodona.
		During the period of 13th and 14th centuries BCE they lived near the sanctuaries of Zeus and his wife.
	treetotem.com /mythps.htm (2744 words)

	PLEIADS : Atlantid star & mountain nymphs ; Greek mythology : PLEIADES, VERGILIAE
		PLEIADES (Pleiades or Peleiades), the Pleiads, are called daughters of Atlas by Pleione (or by the Oceanid Aethra, Eustath.
		Some call the seventh Sterope, and relate that she became invisible from shame, because she alone among her sisters had had intercourse with a mortal man ; others call her Electra, and make her disappear from the choir of her sisters on account of her grief at the destruction of the house of Dardanus (Hygin.
		According to another story, the Pleiades were virgin companions of Artemis, and, together with their mother Pleione, were pursued by the hunter Orion in Boeotia; their prayer to be rescued from him was heard by the gods, and they were metamorphosed into doves (peleiades), and placed among the stars (Hygin.
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NymphaiPleiades.html (2744 words)

	The Pleiades in mythology \| Pleiade
		Robert Graves, the late English poet and writer, records in his 'The Greek Myths' (1955) that it may be derived from either the Greek 'plein' for 'to sail', or 'pleios' meaning 'many'.
		Another possible root is from Pindar, an early Greek poet, who named the cluster the Peleiades – 'a flock of Doves' – and this is, perhaps, the original form.
		A nearby cluster has retained its animalistic classical name of the Hyades, 'the Piglets'.
	www.pleiade.org /pleiades_02.html (1690 words)

	Alcyone.
		Other versions made them the "Seven Doves" that carried ambrosia to the infant Zeus.
		Pleiades (Peleiades) was called a "flock of doves".
		In order to flee the sexual advance of Orion, the Hunter, the seven sisters were transformed into Doves or
	winshop.com.au /annew/Alcyone.html (1331 words)

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