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- Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
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The Pleiades (Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες, pronounced [pleːádes], /ˈpliːədiːz, ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/, PLEE-uh-deez or PLY-uh-deez; ) were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were sometimes called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. The Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain.
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