The open star cluster, Pleiades is known as miyay miyay in Gomeroi, meaning several girls. The miyay were considered to be beautiful women with long hair and bodies made of ice. They say that thunder in the winter is the miyay miyay playing and bathing.
A young hunter, Karambal fell in love with a beautiful miyay and stole her away from her sisters. The sisters retaliated and sent snow storms to punish him. When they realised they couldn't find her in all the snow, they took to the sky in search for summer to melt the ice.
The story contains both factual and cultural elements. It informs us that Pleiades appears in our skies during the summer and disappears in the winter. Winter is caused by the sisters, as a punishment for stealing woman that are of the wrong totem group.
If you would like to know more stories please check out the amazing research done by Bob Fuller arxiv.org/abs/1311.0076 and @TrevorLeaman arxiv.org/abs/1403.7849
