"For the record, all who answered that Atlas holds up the world are incorrect. He holds up the heavens. It is not the map of the world depicted on the famous statue of Atlas, it is the Zodiac, which is the precise meaning of Atlas holding up the heavens. Atlas is credited with being the Titan in charge of the zodiac and astronomy, and his daughters the Hyads, Pleides help him by opening and closing the gates that certain zodiacal figures proceed through, thus marking the change of seasons."

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