hectorpriamidesarchive-deactiva:MYTHOLOGY MEME | (5/6) NYMPHS OR MUSESMEROPE married the impious kin
hectorpriamidesarchive-deactiva:MYTHOLOGY MEME | (5/6) NYMPHS OR MUSESMEROPE married the impious king Sisyphus and was ancestress of the Corinthian and Lycian royal families. Orion pursued the Pleiades after he fell in love with their beauty and grace. Artemis asked Zeus to protect the Pleiades and in turn, Zeus turned them into stars. Artemis was angry because she no longer could see her companions and had her brother, Apollo, send a giant scorpion to chase and kill Orion. Zeus then turned Orion into a constellation to further pursue the Pleiades in the skies. In another legend, the sisters were transformed by Zeus into stars because Orion fell in love with them and relentlessly pursued their affection for 12 years. At first they were turned into doves, but later, along with Orion, into stars so that forever the hunter Orion would pursue them. Merope is the faintest of the stars because she was the only of the Pleiades to have married a mortal. Her sisters had relations with gods and bore them sons, but Merope married Sisyphus and lived on the island Chios. The star Merope is often called the “lost Pleiad” because she was at first not seen by astronomers or charted like her sisters. One myth says that she hid her face in shame because she had an affair with a mortal man, another says that Merope was said to have been so ashamed of her husband’s crimes that she hid her face amongst the stars of heaven, and so the seventh star of the Pleiades faded away from human sight. (x) (x) -- source link