Different cultures have different myths and legends about the constellations.
They were pursued, so one story goes, by the hunter Orion, and were changed into doves to escape him, and then were transformed into stars and placed in the sky. And now when we look up at the Pleiades we see the constellation Orion in eternal pursuit. The other names are Electra, Taygeta, Celaeno, Maia, Alcyone, and Asterope. The stars themselves, which actually are hundreds in number, form an open cluster that is about 127 parsecs, or about 415 light-years, away. Ph. D., Division Director.