Taygete
One of the seven Pleiades, associated with the Taygetus mountain range in Laconia and sacred to Artemis.
The Myth of Taygete
Taygete was one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione. She was a devoted companion of Artemis who shared the goddess's love of hunting and wild places. When Zeus pursued her with amorous intent, Artemis attempted to protect her by transforming her into a doe, but Zeus was not deterred. In gratitude for Artemis's attempted protection, Taygete later dedicated to the goddess the Cerynitian Hind — a magnificent deer with golden horns and bronze hooves that became the object of Heracles's third labour. The Taygetus mountain range above Sparta bore her name, and the mountain was the site where Spartan elders examined newborn infants, casting those deemed unfit into a chasm. The Pleiades as a group were catasterized — placed among the stars — and their rising and setting marked important agricultural dates in the Greek calendar. Taygete's star in the cluster was said to be the faintest, as though she were still hiding from Zeus.
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