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Maia〔The alternate spelling ''Maja'' represents the intervocalic ''i'' as ''j'', pronounced similarly to an initial ''y'' in English; hence Latin ''maior'', "greater," in English became "major."〕 ( or ; (ギリシア語:Μαῖα); (ラテン語:Maia)), in ancient Greek religion, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes. Maia is the daughter of Atlas〔Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 938.〕 and Pleione the Oceanid,〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheke'' 3.10.1.〕 and is the eldest of the seven Pleiades.〔''Bibliotheke'' 3.10.2; Aratus, ''Phainomena'' 255–263. Maia is the only one of the Pleiades named by these two sources to appear also in the rather idiosyncratic list given by the Scholiast to Theocritus (13.25), who says they were the daughters of the Amazons; see the note of J.G. Frazer in his 1921 Loeb Classical Library edition and translation of what was then assumed to be the work of Apollodorus of Athens, the ''Bibliotheca'', vol. 2, p. 2.〕 They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia,〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheke'' 3.10.1.〕 and are sometimes called mountain nymphs, ''oreads''; Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" ''(Maiados oureias)'' "of the lovely black eyes."〔Simonides, Fragment 555.〕 Because they were daughters of Atlas, they were also called the Atlantides.〔Diodorus Siculus 3.60.4.〕 ==Mother of Hermes==
According to the Homeric ''Hymn to Hermes'', Zeus in the dead of night secretly begot Hermes upon Maia, who avoided the company of the gods, in a cave of Cyllene. After giving birth to the baby, Maia wrapped him in blankets and went to sleep. The rapidly maturing infant Hermes crawled away to Thessaly, where by night-fall of his first day he stole some of his half-brother Apollo's cattle and invented the lyre from a tortoise shell. Maia refused to believe Apollo when he claimed Hermes was the thief and Zeus then sided with Apollo. Finally, Apollo exchanged the cattle for the lyre, which became one of his identifying attributes.
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