The Pleiades-as-seven-sisters mythological-pattern appears across virtually every culture that developed sophisticated astronomical-mythology: Greek mythology (Pleiades = seven daughters of Atlas); Australian Aboriginal Songline tradition (seven-sisters across multiple Songlines); Japanese (Subaru = the seven sisters); Native American (multiple Pleiades-mythologies); Akan (seven-cosmic-sisters as matriclan-origin per AKRADINBOSOM W4); Egyptian iconographic (seven-cows-of-Heru); broader cross-cultural. The convergence is one of the most consistent cross-cultural patterns in comparative-mythology research.
The Live Wire framing: Three competing interpretive-positions for the convergence: (1) Independent-observation hypothesis — the visible-celestial-cluster is so distinctive that all star-watching cultures independently noticed it and developed similar mythological-frameworks. (2) Common-ancestral-doctrine hypothesis — there is a deeper-than-coincidence cultural-transmission ancient enough to be ancestral to all subsequent star-mythologies. (3) Cosmological-functional reality hypothesis — the Pleiades-cluster has actual cosmological-functional content that multiple cultures independently encoded similarly. Which interpretation does the convergence-evidence most favor? What research-program would distinguish among them? The independent-observation hypothesis seems most-conservative but does not explain why specifically seven-sisters (rather than seven-brothers or seven-children-of-mixed-genders or seven-animals) appears so consistently across cultures.
Connected: Akan Matriclan System — Pleiades / Seven-Sisters Origin / Oyoko Matriclan