The Story of the Seven Sisters and The Faithful Lovers

In the dream time, many ages ago, the cluster of stars which we now know as the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, were seven beautiful ice maidens. Their parents were a great rugged mountain whose dark head was hidden in the clouds, and an ice-cold stream that flowed from the snow-clad hills. The Seven Sisters wandered across the land, with their long hair flying behind them like storm clouds before the breeze. Their cheeks were flushed with the kiss of the sun, and in their eyes was hidden the soft, grey light of the dawn. So entrancing was their beauty, that all men loved them, but the maidens' affections were as cold as the stream which gave them birth, and they never turned aside in their wanderings to gladden the hearts of men.

[@Randomxgirl]

This is such a wonderful story i will always listen to this

[@laurakennedy1024]

thank you. I'm one of seven sisters (#3). I love learning and sharing knowledge with them about the constellation we love so much.

[@tmagoo9351]

How

[@sawen999]

@Laura Kennedy we may know each other .....................

[@tmagoo9351]

Pls do tell

[@dragonsguardianofcrystalhearts]

Hello family.. not sure which one I am yet..lol much love you you

[@victorrock1997]

Very beautiful story! Fascinating creation myth of the Seven Sisters/Pleiades! Keep up the good work! All the best, much health, take care, and stay safe! :)

[@bbkind9399]

Ooh now I know why I’m so sad missing my faithful one thank you I cried goodness

[@twoflyinghats]

The writer of this text if it's the reader (Dan Shultz?) must have been totally ignorant and disrespectful of Aboriginal culture and spirituality to demean it by calling it a "folk story". That's like calling Judaism, Taoism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism "folk stories"! Perhaps most Americans can't conceive of a culture at least 65,000 years old from its arrival in Sahul, once the one continent of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. Aborigines are the longest continually living modern human cultures on the planet. The Seven Sisters story he tells is so wrong and bizarrely Disney-like, nothing like those told by Aboriginal people today in their songlines. Those are the creation stories from "The Dreaming" not the "dream time" as he mistakenly said. They could have been from some time during the last Ice Age, more than 11,000 years ago before the Earth started to warm again. The Dreaming about the Seven Sisters has been handed down in the oral tradition about astronomy, learnt word for word, grandparent to grandchild around the country since that time. Seriously, this is a disgrace. If you want to tell a story from anywhere, at least do your proper research and get the basic facts of it right, out of respect for ancient cultures, and for this one, for all Australians today.

[@billamalik4297]

Beautiful imagery!

[@KP-xd3hq]

thx for the information

[@timepassages2484]

😊⭐💫⭐💫⭐💫⭐💫⭐💫⭐

[@beatricesanfilippo6925]

Have you read the Seven sisters by Lucinda Riley?

[@LittleLusMyLuvs]

The oldest book