tree) . According to Hesiod they were born by the soil of Mother Earth Gaia when drops of blood spilled at the moment Cronus castrated Uranus . The names of the Meliae nymphs are Helice, Cynosura, Arethusa, Ide, Krime, Britho, Celaeno, Adrastea and Glauce. Reference: Hesiod , Theogony, 179-187 The Pleiade