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has gloss | eng: Peleiades (Greek: , "doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona. Pindar made a reference to the Pleiades as the "peleiades" a flock of doves, but the connection seems witty and poetical, rather than mythic. The chariot of Aphrodite was drawn by a flock of doves, however. A mythic element of a black dove that initiated the oracle at Dodona, which Herodotus was told in the 5th century BC may be an attempt to account for a folk etymology applied to the archaic name of the sacred women that no longer made sense (an aitiological myth). Maybe the pel- element in their name was originally connected with "black" or "muddy" root elements in names like Peleus or Pelops and peliganes (Epirotian, Macedonian senators), Attic polios, Doric peleios grey, old, PIE *pel-, "gray". Peleiades are often confused with the nymphs Pleiades. |
lexicalization | eng: Peleiades |
instance of | c/Classical oracles |
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French | |
has gloss | fra: Les peleiades (en grec ancien / ) sont dans la Grèce antique les femmes sacrées de Zeus et de la Déesse-Mère, Dioné à Dodone. Daprès Hérodote, ces prêtresses sont au nombre de trois et nommées Promeneia, Timarete et Nicandre. La découverte à Dodone dune monnaie dun type rare, datée vers 300 av. J.-C., et portant sur une face le chêne sacré entouré de trois colombes, peut être considérée comme une confirmation archéologique du récit dHérodote. |
lexicalization | fra: peleiades |
Italian | |
has gloss | ita: Nellantica Grecia, le Peleiadi ( "colombe" ), erano le donne consacratesi a Zeus ed alla Dea Madre Dione presso lOracolo di Dodona. |
lexicalization | ita: Peleiadi |
Portuguese | |
has gloss | por: Peleiades ( Πελειάδες, pomba) eram as mulheres sagradas de Zeus e a Deusa mãe, Dione, do santuário de Dodona. |
lexicalization | por: Peleiades |
Castilian | |
has gloss | spa: En la Grecia Antigua las peleiades (en griego αἱ πελειάδες, ‘palomas’) eran las mujeres consagradas a Zeus y a la Diosa Madre, Dione en Dódona. Según Heródoto, estas sacerdotisas eran tres, llamadas Promeneia, Timarete y Nicandra. El descubrimiento en Dódona de una moneda de un tipo raro, fechada hacia 300 a. C. y llevando en la cara el roble sagrado rodeado por tres palomas, puede ser considerado como una confirmación arqueológica de la versión de Heródoto. |
lexicalization | spa: peleiades |
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