Meaning of Hyades | Babel Free

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1. Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.
   Greek
2. An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.

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“An early Grecian gem shows three nude figures, hand in hand, standing on the head of the Bull, one pointing to seven stars in line over the back, which Landseer referred to the Hyades.”

“The Bull was the Bull of Heaven to the Sumerians. It marked the spring equinox and the start of the new year. It's head has always been the Hyades, including Aldebaran.”

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