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.
I know a number of people have shared other articles about this in the r plies, but I found this one had some good detail on the myths and the changes in stellar positions.
I’m also reminded of all those years people spent searching for Franklin’s ships and the answer was found only relevantly. A tribe local to where they’d been sunk knew exactly where they were and had been happy to tell anyone, but they weren’t believed.
Or there’s the PNW tribes who knew all about a huge earthquake and tidal wave that had happened in the past, but nobody believed them until the geologists found evidence and then realized the whole place is sitting on a nasty fault.
Oral history is important.
Another Angry Woman
Kee Hinckley