Mya, Pronounced: MIE-a. English Variant of Maia, In Greek and Roman mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, the group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Her son by Zeus was Hermes. Maia, in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. ... This article is about Greek mythology. ... In Greek mythology, Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. ... Pleione is in Greek mythology, an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ... Statue of Zeus The Greek sculptor Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall Statue of Zeus in about 435 bc. ... Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermēs (Greek: Έρμης: pile of marker stones), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general...

Other Variant

• Maja, German, Scandinavian, Polish (name date: April 9), Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
• Maeja
• Maya, Bulgarian: (name date: May 1)

See also

• Maia, Greek mythological equivalent
• Maia Maiestas, Roman mythological equivalent