Description
Pleiades (Kungkarangkalpa) is an important group of stars forming a similar myth across Australia.
They represent a group of young women who are pursued by a hunter from whom they ran and hid, moving across the country as he kept following them. They eventually escaped, flying upward to the sky where they can now be seen in the constellation.
In the Matu version of the dreamtime story the Minyipuru began their journey in Roebourne as a big group of sisters and mothers. At various places along the way they lost members of their group until eventually only seven sisters remained. At Kalypa ( Well 23 on the Canning Stock Route ) the Minyipuru met a group of Jukurrpa men; it was the first time that either group had ever seen members of the opposite sex. The men tried to grab the women