Something that pure fucks me up is that so many cultures around the world, from Europe to Indigenous Australians describe the Pleiades as a variant on seven sisters/maidens. Only six stars in the cluster are visible to the naked eye. There are stories from these diffuse cultures as to how one "sister" died or was hidden, usually from Orion the hunter.

About 100,000 years ago, a seventh star would have been visible but it moved so naked eye can't see its individual point of light any more.

@stavvers @bo 100k years? Verified? Did we even have language back then???
@elight @bo The 100k years ago thing is based on physics, and it is a HUGE can of worms as to when humans started speaking, but it's probably around then, too - and definitely before humans scattered around the globe including to Australia about 50k years ago