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Peleiades logo #10101) Classical oracle
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Peleiades

Peleiades logo #21000 Peleiades (Greek: Πελειάδες, `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 myt...
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