Pleiades six repudiated wives. They have been cast out for apparent infidelity

Motif

Pleiades six repudiated wives. They have been cast out for apparent infidelity.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The stars. Note: the question of implicit meanings assumed by the proponents of "astralmythology" is not discussed here; only explicit statements in original sources are considered. · Origin of particular stars. · view the constellation · filed as A773.2

Filed across the traditions

Hindu Keith 140.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the Pleiades.

Filed beside it

Pleiades a princess and six suitors among whom she could not choose Pleiades girls who died of grief Pleiades seven illegitimate children Pleiades from hunters marooned in sky after felling world-tree Pleiades as swarm of bees Two stars from Great Bear constellation transferred to Pleiades

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