Pleiades Pack

Nowadays, the name of the Pleiades is perhaps best known as a cluster of stars in the night’s sky, making up part of the Taurus constellation, but these seven stars are named after seven sisters, the Pleiades of Greek mythology. They were mountain nymphs, though to inhabit Ancient Greece. The seven Pleiades were the daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione. The names of the seven Pleiades were: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope.

In Ancient Greece, the role of the Pleiades was that of companions and attendants to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis. The seven Pleiades were also though thought of as nursemaids and teachers to the young Dionysus. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus).

The sisters eventually formed a constellation. One myth recounts that they all killed themselves out of grief over the death of their sisters, the Hyades. Another explains that after seven years of being pursued by Orion, a Boeotian giant, they were turned into stars by Zeus. Orion became a constellation, too, and continued to pursue the sisters across the sky. The faintest star of the Pleiades was thought to be either Merope, who was ashamed of loving a mortal, or Electra, grieving for Troy, the city of Dardanus, her son with Zeus.

This pack is available in different colours and scents and includes a Merope and an Electra candle.