Accordians and Pleiadians

If you are from the Planet Accordia, then you could properly be called an Accordian (not to be confused with an accordion). But if you are from the star cluster known as the Pleiades, are you a Pleiadian or a Pleiadean?

Since Pleiades is a Greek name we can begin to answer this question by looking at how they spell other familiar names from their Mythology or Science. For example, the adjective form of Hercules is spelled Herculean, not Herculian. Actually, Hercules is the Latin variant of the original Greek name Heracles, but the spelling of the ending follows the same rule.

Let's look at other examples of familiar Greek names and their adjective forms:

Achilles	Achillean
Aegeus	Aegean
Archimedes	Archimedean
Atlas	Atlantean
Cyclopes	Cyclopean
Damocles	Damoclean
Hades	Hadean
Hercules	Herculean
Hermes	Hermean
Hyades	Hyadean
Pleiades	Pleiadean
Pythagoras	Pythagorean

Other familiar names/adjectives that do not have an -ian suffix:

Boole	Boolean
Europe	European
Shakespeare	Shakespearean

Interestingly, if you do a google.com search for Atlantian, it will ask if you really meant to search for Atlantean, which is of course the correct spelling and gives more than three times as many hits.

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[still under construction, to include a source that describes the Greek or Latin spelling rule for generating suffixes from proper names]

People who spell the above list of examples of adjectives with an -ian suffix are clearly using an incorrect spelling.

Since Pleiades is a Greek name, perhaps it would be proper to spell the adjective form the same way the Greeks spell it, Pleiadean, and not the anglicized form Pleiadian.

In researching the origins of the spelling of Pleiadian, I was happily surprised to discover I'm not the only one who publicly favors the Greek spelling.

James W. Deardorff Research Professor Emeritus Oregon State University In a commentary about The Talmud of Jmmanuel, he says: "Regarding the spelling of 'Pleiadean,' I should explain that I prefer the 'ean' ending, in analogy to 'Archimedean,' rather than the 'ian' ending, which, however, is more prevalent."

So why then do so many people spell it Pleiadian? Whom can we tag as a scapegoat for this?

[Insert here: list of books using the spelling Pleiadian in the title.]

On the other hand, I have so far only found one book using the Greek spelling:

Meditative Magic, The Pleiadean Glyphs (1995) by Judith Diana Winston In response to my email inquiry, she had this to say about the spelling:

[More to come . . .]

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