One of the seven Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, who on Samothrace bore to Zeus the sons Iasion and Dardanus — the genealogical nymph behind the hero node `electra-atlas`, kept distinct from Electra daughter of Agamemnon and from the Oceanid Electra (`electra-oceanid`).1
Apollodorus counts her among the Pleiades born at Cyllene — Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia — and again, in the Trojan stemma, as Electra daughter of Atlas who had by Zeus two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, on Samothrace. Iasion loved Demeter and was killed by a thunderbolt when he tried to defile the goddess; grieving, Dardanus crossed to the Troad and founded the line that would flower in Priam's city.2
Apollonius sends the Argonauts to touch at the island of Electra, daughter of Atlas, that they might receive the Samothracian mysteries in gentle initiation before sailing the chilling sea — a cult moment that binds the Pleiad's name to the voyage for the Fleece.3
Hyginus preserves the catasterism: of the seven Pleiades, Electra is said no longer to appear among her sisters out of grief at the death of Dardanus and the fall of Troy. That star-myth lives on the hero node `electra-atlas`; this node holds the nymph's parentage and maternity — the daughter of Atlas who lay with Zeus and bore the founders of the Trojan and mystic lines.4
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