In ancient Greece, Peleiades ("doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona. Pindar made a reference to the Pleiades as the "peleiades" a flock of doves, but the connection seems witty and poetical, rather than mythic. The chariot of Aphrodite was drawn by a flock of doves, however.
A mythic element of a black dove that initiated the oracle at Dodona (q.v.), which Herodotus was told in the 4th century BCE may be an attempt to account for a folk etymology applied to the archaic name of the sacred women that no longer made sense. Was the pel- element in their name actually originally connected with "black" or "muddy" root elements in names like "Peleus" or "Pelops"?
The age and number of these venerable dove-priestesses, the peleiades, or "wild rock-doves," known to us as the common pigeon, Columba livia, has been preserved by Strabo, who records the appelation treis graiai, or "three old women," to describe them.
As a breastplate, it was always worn by Athene, but when it was carried as a shield by Zeus, it was "shaken [as] a source of terror to his enemies, [and was] sometimes interpreted as a thunder cloud."
The peleiades, or wild rock-doves, still remained three in number when Herodotus of Halicarnassus interviewed them in the mid-fifth century B.C.E. The historian well knew that avian soothsayers had been at this desolate site of Dodona, and had established "the most ancient and, at that period, the only oracle in Greece,"
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