English to afrikaans meaning of

pleiades

Volgens die woordeboek verwys die woord "Pleiades" na 'n groep van sewe sterre wat in die sterrebeeld Taurus geleë is, ook bekend as die Sewe Susters. In die Griekse mitologie was die Pleiades sewe susters wat dogters van die titan Atlas en die see-nimf Pleione was. Die sterre is met die blote oog sigbaar en daar is deur die geskiedenis heen in verskeie kulture en mitologieë verwys.

Sentence Examples

  1. An estate lay upon a hill between here and the mountain, the only home remotely worthy of aristoi, and Kalypso was the daughter of one of the Pleiades.
  2. Prometheus claimed the king no longer trusted the Pleiades.
  3. In theory, the Pleiades were all equal, but Pandora had long suspected Kelaino held more than her share of the power.
  4. No doubt he had arrived on the morn, without warning, and the Pleiades scrambled to accommodate the king.
  5. And yes, indeed, by the end of the song, nigh every eye in the courtyard was upon her, even those of some few of the Pleiades themselves, the very Queens of Atlantis.
  6. The Pleiades escaped the patriarchal chains that bound mortal women and most other Nymphs, at least to some extent.
  7. He was coming, probably intending to castigate the Pleiades for failing to abate the Nectar blight.
  8. To honour their father, the Pleiades had erected a fifty-feet tall statue of Atlas, hefting the world proudly.
  9. It must have come from one of the Pleiades, for almost anyone else would have scratched a time and date on an ostrakon rather than waste such a valuable material as papyrus on a simple message.
  10. He was uncle to the Pleiades, brother to their murdered father Atlas.
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