'''マイア'''('''Μαῖα'''、Maia)は、ギリシア神話またはローマ神話の女神。'''マイヤ'''とも。ギリシア神話のマイアとローマ神話のマイアは本来無関係だったが、後に混同されるようになった。
'''Maia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|eɪ|.|ə}}; [[Ancient Greek]]古代ギリシャ語: Μαῖα; also spelled または '''Maie''', {{lang|grc|Μαίη}}; {{lang-la|Maia}}),<ref>The alternate spelling ''Maja'' represents the [[wiktionary:intervocalic|intervocalic]] ''i'' as ''j'', pronounced similarly to an initial ''y'' in English; hence Latin ''maior'', "greater," in English became "major."</ref> in [[ancient Greek religion]] and [[Greek mythology|mythology]], is one of the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiades]] and the mother of [[Hermes]], one of the [[Twelve Olympians|major Greek gods]], by [[Zeus]], the king of Olympus.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' 14.435; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Maia 3.10.2]; [[Horace]], ''Odes'' 1.10.1 & 2.42 ff.; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 219</ref>
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