Aratus: seven named, 'only six are visible to the eyes' (3rd century BC)
Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena, names the seven Pleiades and says only six can be seen. Lost-Pleiad stories are also found in European, African, Asian, Indonesian, Native American and Aboriginal Australian traditions (Norris and Norris 2021).
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Why do so many cultures call the Pleiades 'seven sisters' and tell of a lost one?
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Norris and Norris 2021, Why are there Seven Sisters?, in Advancing Cultural Astronomy (Springer); preprint arXiv 2101.09170