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Pleiades are a group of boys, boys, men or people of different, but mostly male sex.

Malgashi, Berbers of Morocco, French, Germans, Sumer, Babylonia, Marind-anim, Buin, d'Entrecasteau, Melanesians in Finschhafen (?) , Marshall Islands, Maori, Angami, Sword, Thado Kuki, Mentawai, Luoyang, Western Torajas, Tetum, Timor, Roti, Solor, Alor and/or adjacent islands, Tsos, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Serbs, Bulgarians, Poles, Ossetians, Kumyks [6 brothers+girl], Nogais [6 brothers+girl], Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Swedes, Danes, Kazan Tatars, Khalkha Mongols, Khukhunor Olets, Nganasans, Evens, Udege, Japanese, Inupiat North Alaska, Netsilick, Thompson, Hulkomel, Hurons, Seneca, Onondaga, Delaware, Caddo, Natchez, Chirokee, Koasati, Blackfooted, Grovantre, Assiniboine, Sheyen, Arikara, Pawnee, Shasta, Vilyot, Chumash, Hicarilla, navajo, pima, quiche, lokono, kalinha, carinha, macushi, siona and sekoya, napo, kofan, shuar, siushi, bora, chikuna, Vila Bela, Quechua (Southern Peru?) , konibo, kamayura, paresi, nambikwara, sherente, craho, caduveo, matako, toba, mokovi.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi [Pleiades are little boys arguing over rice (que se disputent un moitier á riz)]: Molet 1979:29.

North Africa. Moroccan Berbers (northeast, zkara) [group of shepherds (l'Assemblée des bergers)]: Basset 1908:396.

Western Europe. The French [Pleiades - 7 kings who went to worship Jesus, Orion's Belt - 3 kings; seven walked slowly, chatting, choosing the path, three quickly and straight, came earlier; so the Pleiades stand up earlier, but later Orion]: Kabakova 1999, No. 21:35; the Germans [six young men freed the princess, died with her in the same night, became the Pleiades; the princess is the weakest star]: Gundel 1922:113 .

Western Asia. Sumer, Babylonia [Pleiades, IMIN.BI - "Seven Gods" (identification is certain), were considered evil aggressive demons; according to one version, they are sons of Enmesharra, according to another, Ishkhara or Anu]: Kurtik 2007:224-226.

Melanesia. Marind-anim: Wirtz, Neverman 1981:50 [(No. 13); the sons of the serpent Beer were fishing in the marshes; when they baked the fish, the two boys wanted to take it all for themselves; they threw burning smut at the brothers, climbed a tree themselves and turned into the stars of Puno (Pleiades)], 162 and 169 [Pleiades are identified with mayo patur boys ("mayo boys") lying close to each other in the children's basket; Namarek, Taparek, Sufu, Fidafo are the brightest stars of the Pleiades; they are the boys who secretly ate fish from friends; for this, others threw flaming smut at them so they had to hide in the sky]; Nijhoff 1921 [Pleiades - little boys in a basket carried by their mother; they turned into birds; if the Pleiades are over the horizon, then the boys are out of the basket and walking]: 182-192 in Maaβ 1933:279; d'Entrecasteau Islands [Pleiades - six men, married in pairs to three women - three stars of the Orion Belt; wife names Sugarcane Thief, Banana Leaf Thief, Tarot Top Thief; real polyandry is not known]: Jenness, Ballantine 1920:161; Melanesians of the Finschhafen Peninsula (prov. Morobe, north coast of Papua New Guinea) [when 10 brothers got together, 9 always beat the youngest on the 10th; he climbed a tree, it began to grow, the wind rocked him, threw him into the sky, and he became Morning Star; his brothers followed and became a group of stars {Pleiades?}] : Slone 2001, No. 56:4-5; buin (Fr. Bougainville) [The Pleiades are people who sit together and eat tarot]: Thurnwald 1910:134

Micronesia-Polynesia. Maori [Pleiades are seven people who became stars after death; visible stars are their eyes (each has one eye)]: Frazer 1931:47; Marshall Islands: Erdland 1910 [Ligedañer ( Chapel) is the mother of the star brothers; the elder Dümur (Antares), followed by all the others, refuse to take her into their boat so as not to be overweight; only the younger Jäbro (Pleiades) takes; all race to a distant island, the youngest wins because the mother sets an unknown sail; the older brother is hit on the back by the crossbar, now he is a hunchback; when the Pleiades ascend, Antares enters, not to see brother]: 21-22; Tobin 2002, No. 8 [11 or 12 brothers race boats to a distant island in the east; the winner will be chief; only the youngest, Jebro, takes his mother in the boat, she helps to win him; with the brothers who joined him, he is now seen as the Pleiades; the elder brother and two others refused to follow him], 9 [the same, in short], 12 [the young fisherman sails in a boat, towards the other, in it seven identical young men; they say they are Jebro (Pleiades), give a banana shoot, tell them not to talk about them; a person stays young after surviving many of his wives and children; finally, he talks; at the first He turns gray in words, then his hands fall off, he crumbles to dust]: 56-59, 62, 76-77.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Angami [Pleiades are seven men killed by enemies when they pulled bamboo rats out of their burrows (7 is an unlucky number, there shouldn't be as many in the squad]: Hudson 1968:251; bodo (Meches) [ Pleiades - Seven Brothers]: Hudson 196:251; Thado Kuki [Pleiades are a group of brothers with a single cloak]: Hudson 1925:114 (=1968:251).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Aceh [Pleiades - "many people"]: Maaβ 1921:46; mentawai: Loeb 1929, No. 12 [husband says children will be a burden; puts seven sons in a barrel, anchores at sea; cuts The boa constrictor throws parts into the sea, they wriggle, the waves imitate them, the sea worries, unanchors the barrel; Sikombut finds it, raises seven boys, and at the festival the eighth comes out of a slaughtered pig; the brothers are unbearable, they kill the guests, they kill the stepfather's brother; the adoptive father asks them to climb a tree, causes the wind, the tree throws them into a distant village; they return, the father assures that they are not wanted to get rid of them; they secretly make a military boat, sail away; the father throws a harpoon at it to pull it back by the tench; the eighth brother sends the rat seven times to gnaw the tench; on the eighth rat she has worn his teeth, but the brothers send a scorpion against her father; they sail away; S. goes to the moon, he is the Month; three brothers have wives, they follow in an unfinished boat; the brothers throw the pig's jaw at her, the boat goes off course; everything in the sky: the brothers' boat (probably the Pleiades), the rat, the scorpion, the brothers' wives' boat (three stars of the Orion Belt), then the Morning Star rises]: 149-162; Schefold 1988 [eight brothers turn into Pleiades (balubalu, "eight to eight"); three of them were married, their wives followed them but can't catch them, these are the three stars of the Orion Belt; the Pleiades threw them the lower jaw of the pig ( Aldebaran and Hyades); brothers' boat - Triangle constellation]: 72; then luoyang (loinang?) [Pleiades - 'many people', Orion's Belt - 'Three people']: Kruyt 1931:413 in Maaβ 1933:298; Western Toraja [Kawatuna: seven children - Pleiades, one of them turned into rice; Sigi: wife turned into rice, husband into Orion's Belt; Koro: A galaxy woman told her son to prepare fields on seven hills, started rolling on the slopes, rice grew]: Kruyt 1938 (4): 4-5 in Mabuchi 1969:38; tetum [ Pleiades - "seven men"]: Vroklage 1952:138; Timor: Pascoal 1967:363 [only the youngest of seven brothers, Na'i-Buro, worked, the others laughed at him; he decided to leave, but the brothers said they would go with him; the sister wanted to go with her brothers, but they told her to stay; when her son is born, let her look at the sky and see seven stars (Pleiades?) ; and so it happened], 364-365 [after the death of their father, seven brothers only play with their tops, when all people cultivate the fields for sowing before the rainy season begins; the mother followed them, chopped them down the tops in pieces, put them on the plates where she was going to put their food; the brothers went to where they used to play with tops, began to dance hand in hand and beat off the rhythm; water came out of the soil, they began to dive; the sister saw them when only their heads were left; the brothers said they would appear in the sky in the east when it was time to work in the fields; because the daughter did not return either, mother sent tua áatan named Bere-Loic, who, holding bamboo in her hand, became a star next to the Lúdun brothers (Pleiades?)] ; Roti [7 young men went to earth to look for work; some found, others returned to sea; one became a shepherd to the Raja, who appreciated him; when they learned that the shepherd came from the sea, people from the land killed him, abandoned him a corpse in the forest; the other six found bones, doused them with sea water, the victim came to life but barely survived; they carried him to sea, but the sea men did not let them in, saying that they had stayed on the ground for too long; and people from earth began to drive them into the sea; then they decided to become stars; in this group of stars (obviously the Pleiades), the seventh dim is that half-alive shepherd]: Kratz 1973, No. 59:256-257; Solor, Alor and/or neighboring islands [there were seven men and a Pari woman, she ran away with a strange man, they ran in pursuit; when these seven stars (obviously the Pleiades) rise, Pari (the Evening Star) comes in]: Vatter 1932 in Maaβ 1933:375.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tsou: Yamada 2009b, No. 4 [During the millet harvest festival, six men went to the mountains against warning and were late for the festival; they sat on a board, climbed to the sky, became a constellation fkúu; since then, the Tsou have been hosting this festival when fkúu appears in the evening and disappears in the morning; Tung (1964:470) identifies fkúu with the Ursa Major, but Okada believes that the Big Dipper The bear is toantuhu, "of which there are no legends"], 5 [the brave hunter was upset that he returned to the village when the trophy heads festival had already begun; along with his family of seven and became two dogs into the constellation fkúu, which appears at sunset in June and sets at 7:30am west in April, followed by a star (constellation?) yungku is a dam that blocks the river during the course of fish; {fkúu cannot be a Ursa Major, definitely the Pleiades, which have a heliactic approach in May}]: 69, 69-60.

The Balkans. Montenegrins [P.A. Rovinsky recorded the legend of Vlašitis (Pleiades) from a Poturchenko from Gusinj; the new ruler decided to kill 6 virtuous brothers Askhabi-Tefovi; they retired to the cave with they fell asleep with their dog; when they woke up, they sent one to the city to buy food; people replied that such money had not been available for hundreds of years; after questioning the messenger, they went to the brothers' cave, but did not find it; in honor of the brothers God put seven stars in the sky (6 brothers and a dog)]: Potanin 1883:730-731; Serbs: Belova 2009 [Pleiades are Vlašiče, these are seven brothers whose names rhyme with each other: Mika and Mioka, Rako and Raoka, Orislav, Borislav, Milislav, Volya and Voleta, Rale and Raleta, Mile and Mileta, Przholak, etc. (reference to Jankov, p. 139)]; Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991 [=Arkhipova 1962:203-208, Eschker 1992, No. 24:127-135; King Petar has a beautiful daughter; Tsar Tatar demanded her as his wife, otherwise he would ruin the kingdom; P. ordered to build a tower and walled it up in it with his daughter for three years; say that his daughter died, and he himself went to ask the Sun why the days were shorter in winter and hot in summer; Tsar Tatar came, looked at the empty palace and did not come again; three years later P. left, but his daughter disappeared; sentenced to death promised to find her if he was pardoned; came to the old woman, greeted her respectfully; old woman: it's good that I did it, because I have 5 dragon sons; she promised them not to harm them named brother; one senses any trace, the second can steal a lamb from under the sheep, the third will instantly build a tower, the fourth is a sharpshooter, the fifth will pick up everything that falls from above; one has found a trail princess, the second stole her from the arms of the 7-headed dragon, a third built a tower and they all took refuge in it; the dragon scorched the tower with the seventh head from above and took the princess again; but the fourth of the dragon brothers pierced his heart with an arrow, and the fifth picked up the dropped princess; they argued who should get it; asked the Mother of the Wind, who sent it to the Mother of the Month, the Mother of the Month to the Mother of the Sun, the Mother of the Sun advised her own mother to ask; she told all six to make the princess a sister; they became the Pleiades - six dragon brothers, their named brother and princess; they bypass the mothers of the Wind every year, Months, Suns, thank for their advice; from Yuriev's spring day to Vidovdan (June 28), they are on the road, they are not visible]: 212-218; Jankov 1951:129 [Pleiades - seven brothers], 139-140 [=Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:212-218], 140 [six brothers and a girl they stole]; Slovenians [Vlaite (Pleiades) stole a girl from the Turks, whom they drove with batog (Orion Belt)]: Mladenova 2006:81; Bulgarians [Pleiades (Hajduti) - robbers who attacked the traveler, pursued by his tribesmen (Taurus constellation)]: Belova 2009a: 72.

Central Europe. Poles [the name "seven brothers" (siedem braci) is sporadically found]: Belova 2009a: 72.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [Pleiades are a collection of feasting sledges, in the center there is a barrel of wine]: Potanin 1883:730; 1893:325; Kumyks, Nogais [The Pleiades consisted of six brothers and sisters, and the Big Dipper - out of six brothers; they kidnapped Sister Pleiades, Ursa Major became seven stars, the constellation is called Ettegen]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:305.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks (Obigarm, Garm, Porkhog) [Pleiades - Haft Barodaron (Seven Brothers)]: Nikiforov 2017; Tajiks (director of the museum in Dushanbe, born in Kulyab) [Pleiades - Seven Brothers]: Nikiforov 2017.

Baltoscandia. The Swedes [the giant kidnapped the princess, the king promised half the kingdom and the daughter's hand to the savior; six brothers each began to learn some art; 1) build a ship; 2) control it; 3) climb a glass mountain; 4) steal - could steal an egg from under his magpie; 5) create the night over, the day ahead; 6) shoot accurately; the brothers got the princess, the fifth blinded the stalker giant, Having created the night, the sixth killed him with an arrow; the king and the princess herself do not know who to choose; the brothers and then the princess took to heaven one by one, became the Pleiades]: Balzamo 2011, No. 16:26-31; the Danes [ Grundtvig 1878:109-114; the father named his 6 sons the Elder, Next to the Eldest, etc.; when they were between 18 and 12, their father sent them into the world to learn trade; at crossroads they parted six roads, agreeing to return to the same place two years later; when they returned, it turned out that everyone had mastered some science: 1) build a self-propelled ship; 2) drive such a ship by land and sea; 3) hear everything; 4) shoot with a marker; 5) climb walls and rocks; 6) steal; the sorcerer stole the princess, the king promises her savior as his wife and half the kingdom; using his abilities, brothers on a self-propelled the ship reached the glass mountain; the climber climbed, the thief stole the princess from the sleeping sorcerer; he woke up, followed him; he can only be killed by hitting a dark speck on his chest; the shooter hit the sorcerer has fallen into thousands of pieces, these are flints {in Grundtvig's German translation; Kramer has "shooting stars" for some reason}; neither the king nor the princess knows who her husband should be; God killed the brothers and the princess, turning them into the Pleiades; the princess is the brightest and the thief is the weakest star]: Cramer 1919:11-14.

Volga - Perm. Tatars [Pleiades - six boys]: Davletshin 1979:48.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Olety (Kukunor) [Pleiades are six or seven people who once lived: a blacksmith, a master of reducing the Earth's space, a master of breaking a stone, a carpenter, a doctor (the informant did not remember any other)]: 322; khalha- Mongols: Potanin 1893 [The Pleiades were Hobudey-Mergen's seven sons, skilled in various things; one of them, a sharpshooter, took a bet, started shooting at the sun and moon, missed; cut off himself thumb, turned into a groundhog; six brothers and marmots went to heaven]: 323; 1919a, No. 3 [a woman visited a white man, gave birth to seven eggs; put seven boys under the bed, seven boys came out, woman she raised them; after sticking seven copies in the green, they conspired to disperse in different directions to learn different arts; six came together, made a wooden Garudi, flew it to look for the seventh; became Dalhae- Yusun-burkhan, which is now visible in the sky]: 16.

Western Siberia. Nganasany [1) Ursa Minor ("seven stars") are hunters who catch wild deer with nets; a vazhenka with a calf in front, hidden hunters behind; 2) Pleiades are wild deer hunters with nets; they say they catch the souls of dead people and dead deer with nets]: Popov 1984:48.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [riddle: three people have been chasing a snow sheep all their lives on foot, and they don't lag behind or catch up (Pleiades); {maybe an informant or collector's mistake - there must be three stars of the bucket handle The Big Dipper, and the ram is the four stars of the bucket; however, cf. below is netsilic}]: Burykin 2001, No. 22:113.

Japan. Tango Fudoki (713 A.D.) [Urashima catches a five-colored turtle, which turns into a girl; she takes him to an underwater palace; standing at the gate, he sees first a group of seven, then eight children; the girl explains that these are the Pleiades and Taurus]: Ikeda 1971, No. 470:120

The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate [Aldebaran is a polar bear chased by pleiade hunters]: Peet 1895 in Gibbon 1964:245; netsilic: Rasmussen 1931:211 and 385 [three brothers chased on a sledge a bear; their newly born sister looks at them, they turn into the Pleiades; a star is a dog chasing a bear; another lame dog is a reddish star behind the first one], 263 [hunters they chase a bear on a sledge; one jumped off to pick up a fallen mitten; "Pleiades" means "Chasing a bear"].

NW Coast. Hyda [(Hamilton, Stellar Legends of American Indians, 48); seven brothers in the boat harpooned a monstrous whale, he dragged them to the whirlpool; the tench burst, the whale sank into the abyss, the boat, After accelerating, I found myself in the sky, the brothers became the Pleiades]: Miller 1997:99.

The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [The month is beautiful and clear; the Hare (Var.: Frog) is his younger sister; there are so many star guests in the house that the Pleiades cuddle closely together; the Month sends his sister to fetch water; she comes back, she has nowhere to sit; he invites her to sit on his face, she sits down; the month becomes dim, with a woman on his face with buckets in her hands]: Teit 1898, No. XXXVI: 91-92; chalkomel ( Scealis, lower reaches of Fraser) [1) Shals (Qäls, Kels) meets crying children abandoned by their parents; puts them in heaven, turns them into Pleiades]: Boas 1895, No. III.1:21 (=2002:95).

(Wed. The Midwest. Menominee [star is beat and is walking away from the others]: Hilger 1960:49).

Northeast. Hurons (viandot) [seven brothers play and dance; from time to time one of them goes to ask an old woman for bread, she does not give it; they make a tambourine, go up to the sky dancing; now an old woman offers them food, but it's too late; she cries; boys turn into Pleiades (Hutinazidja, "The Group")]: Barbeau 1960, No. 3:6-7; translated into Lévi-Strauss 1964, No. 132:248; seneca [12 children formed a circle, started dancing, took to the sky, are now visible above their parents' heads; one stepped aside - a faint star]: Curtin 2001:507; onondaga [old man warns children stop dancing, otherwise something will happen; they do not listen, ask their parents to give them food; they say that everyone can eat at home; children dance, take off, parents shout to them in vain come back; one boy looked around, became a shooting star, the others turned into the Pleiades; var: witches from the sky made the dancers go up; the Sun could not help, the Moon turned them into a group fixed stars used by Indians to celebrate New Year]: Beauchamp 1922:167-169; Delaware: Bierhorst 2995, No. 123 [tribal leaders take twelve boys to the island; they must fast there to become leaders in the future too; on the 12th day, boys dance, rise to the sky, turn into a "group of flickering stars"], 157 [people burned several witches; the Creator punished them with a blizzard and by the earthquake; people told "clean" children to offer prayers; children began to go up to heaven; trying to stop them, they were whipped with clothes stained with menstrual blood; seven girls were left unsoiled, turned into Pleiades], 171 [about the same, seven boys]: 58, 66, 70; Hitakonanu'laxk 1994 [seven wise men are tired of paying attention to their personas; decided to become stones, all to them they come equally; pines are the same; they became seven stars (the Bunched Up Stars), Pleiades]: 86-87 (=Miller 1997:55); Lankford 2007:169 [on the fourth day, seven boys are on the shaman's task to pierce boiled corn bread with a sharp stick; after another 12 days, they surpassed their teacher, dancing went up to the sky, became the Pleiades], 170 [the little boys prayed to the Creator in a row, began to climb air; people threw old clothes at them (to make them dirty and less light), seven got up and became Pleiades].

Plains. Blacklegs: Hagar 1906 [hunters did not give their skin to boys, but to their sisters]: 359; Josselin de Jong 1914 [a group of boys ascends to the sky, turn into the Pleiades because their fathers did not give them white or yellow bison calf skins]: 37-38; McClintock 1910 [in the spring, people hunt buffalo calves, give their yellow skins to boys; six poor boys got nothing, they were all bullied; they left, found themselves in the sky, becoming the Pleiades; when hunting buffalo calves, they are not visible]: 490; assiniboine [seven young men wonder what to become; the earth (they dig it), the rocks (crumbling), the trees ( thrown by the storm), water (dries up), night (followed by day), light (replaced by night) are rejected by a wise red-haired brother; only heaven and stars are immortal; brothers rise to heaven on the web, turn into seven stars (Monroe, Williamson 1987:76-78: probably in the Pleiades); the web is given to the Spider forever]: Lowie 1909a, No. 21:177; grovantre [girls play; the eldest asks them to bring bison ribs; makes out their claws, turns into a Bear, kills everyone but their younger sister; their six brothers return; ask my sister to find out where the Bear's vulnerable place is; the little finger on my left hand; they give the rabbit's sister to throw hot fat at the Bear; they run, the Bear chases them, the youngest kills her by hitting her little finger with a tendon arrow (the only one that can kill her); they burn the body, one spark flies to the side, the Bear revives from her, continues to pursue; if they wish, the brothers create a swamp, a forest, a gorge, a river, fire, cacti behind her; the sister hits the brothers with her ball, taking them to heaven; they turn into the Ursa Major or the Pleiades; The bear stays on earth]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 27:105-108; Sheyens: Curtis 1976 (19) (southern sheyens) [children play with animals; one girl asks not to be called a bear; they call her; she tells her younger sister to hide in a dog kennel, turns into a Bear, kills many; her sister runs; tells her to appear behind the prickly bushes, thorns, river, steep bank; The bear overcomes everything; seven brothers protect the girl; they run out of arrows; together with the girl they climb to the top of the high peak; Bear tries to knock him down; they go up to heaven, turn into Pleiades]: 143-144; Kroeber 1900, No. 18 [someone comes to the girl at night; she stains her lover with red paint; her father tells all men dance; she sees paint on her father's dog; gives birth to seven puppies; the dog takes them away; she follows them; sees the Dog in the guise of a handsome man; (Dog and?) puppies turn into Pleiades ("seven puppies")], 19 [7 brothers came to a single girl, called them sister; 6 hunt, the youngest stays at home; one day he shoots a bird, it flies away with an arrow, he runs Then, at this time, the bison stole the girl; the young man turned into an earthen rat, dug a hole for the girl, they ran away; he made an iron fence, fired an arrow into the sky, and an iron tree appeared to the sky; the bison broke the fence when they began to cut down a tree, seven brothers killed them; seven brothers took to heaven and became the Pleiades]: 181-182, 182-183; Arikara [the eldest girl reluctantly agrees to play bear; tells her younger sister to hide; turns into a Bear, kills everyone; sister secretly meets their four brothers returning from the war; reports that the Bear The little fingers on her legs are vulnerable; the brothers let her scatter thorns in front of the house, they lure the Bear out, screaming that enemies are coming; the bear dies, the brothers burn her; a drop of blood falls to the ground, Bear revives, chases his sister and brothers; the older brother throws an awl, it turns into a thorny forest; the second is a knife, he cuts through gorges; the third is a comb, turns into thickets of cacti; the fourth - whetstone, turns into a high rock (Devil's Tower in Wyoming), raising fugitives to the sky; they turn into the Pleiades, the Bear goes west]: Park, No. 7:146-152; Pawnee (kitkehahki) [going for brushwood, the girl gets lost, the Skull brought her to his dugout; while he is away, the girl climbs the hill; the man gives her an arrow, a bubble, a cactus; she runs; the cougar says she can't help against Skulls; she throws a cactus, it turns into thickets; the bear is unable to help; the bubble into the river; the skull crosses on a log; the bison is unable to help; throws an arrow - thickets; The skull burns the way with her fiery breath; the girl runs to the dugout of three brothers, the youngest breaks the Skull with a club, the girl splits the pieces to dust, burns it; the brothers help her sow the corn and beans she has brought, pumpkins; she tells them not to go to the field without her permission; they harvest in autumn; agree to leave the girl as a sister since she brought them corn; brothers disappear in the evenings and come back in the morning; agree to take her as well; now the girl is the seventh star of the Pleiades]: Dorsey 1906, No. 30:119-122.

Southeast USA. Caddo [seven lazy brothers always dance, never work; their mother refuses them dinner; they dance, go up to heaven, turn into Pleiades; in summer, when people work, they play and so you can't see them]: Dorsey 1905, No. 36:64; natchez [seven men fast, decide to transform themselves; reject turning into pines, stones (white people will cut them down and break them); turn into a constellation (probably in the Pleiades)]: Swanton 1929, No. 14:242; Teal: Hagar 1906 [seven boys practice shooting on the cob; their mothers tell them to go far away if they don't want to shoot at game; boys dance in a circle, go up to the sky, turn into the Pleiades; parents tried to knock them down with poles, but they have already risen too high]: 358; Mooney 1900, No. 10 [seven boys are always chasing a stone disc with a stick, do not work in the field; mothers cook stones for them instead of corn; boys start dancing, go up to the sky; six turn into Pleiades; the seventh mother manages to catch the seventh with a stick; he falls, falling into the ground; a pine tree grows]: 258; koasati [a group of lazy people only danced from place to place; when it was time to sow, they only sowed beans; they ate it; It's hot, they're gone; they're the Pleiades]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:166.

California. Villot [Pleiades - Six People on a Boat]: Miller 1997:138; Shasta: Dixon 1910a, No. 26 [When hunting squirrels, Coyote asks the Raccoon to put his hand in the hole, grabs it on the other side, tears it off ; he dies; Coyote brings home his meat; one of the Coyote's sons tells the truth to the Raccoon's sons; they kill the rest of the Coyote's children (not specified how), run away with their informant; fugitives turn into Pleiades, Coyote can't be caught]: 30-31; Farrand 1915, No. 11 [Coyote and Coon live together, each with four sons; Coyote liked two girls at the festival, but they went with the Raccoon; along the way home Coyote invited the Raccoon to put his hand in the hollow to drive the squirrel out; he pulled the hand from the other side, tore it off, the Raccoon died; the Coyote brought the meat home, the youngest son got less than he wanted, was offended, told the Raccoon's children everything; they killed Coyote's three sons, left them sleeping; ran away, telling everything in the house not to tell where they had gone; forgot to warn Zola; Coyote began to ask, ash rose to the sky, Coyote saw five boys in the distance, called them, could not catch up; they turned into the Pleiades; the fifth little red star was the son of Coyote; (Miller 1997:139-140: The Pleiades do not have one stars, bright red Aldebaran nearby)]: 220-221; chumash [8 men began to live together, each had knowledge; one was the best at fishing, the second predicted the weather, the third was looking for nuts and berries, the fourth caught small animals, made clothes from skins; once the eighth disappeared; this is the Pleiades]: Monroe, Williamson 1987:90.

The Great Southwest. Hicarilla [children play bear; the girl gradually becomes a real bear; for the fourth time she is completely transformed, kills everyone; leaves her younger sister to serve her; carries water in human turtles, from which the Bear made buckets; the father and five other men return from hunting; together with the girl, they make a fire near the Bear Cave, throw it in the face burning deer peritoneum; rising on a cloud to the sky, turning into Pleiades]: Opler 1938, No. C1:113-116; Navajo [Pleiades 1) old people playing dice; one loses, drops dice in their hearts leaves, taking his wife and children (=Griffin-Pierce 1992:156-157); 2) (=Maryboy, Begay 2010:41; =Monroe, Williamson 1987:34) seven Flint Youth (Dylyehe), Monster Slayer's assistants, traveling through the Milky Way and the rainbow; these young men run, shoot arrows and dodge them while training]: Miller 1997:189; pima [seven boys danced around the fire all night, although knew that only adult men could dance this dance; ropes came down from the sky, began to pick them up, dancing; they became a compact group of stars {Pleiades}]: Baylor 1976:45.

Mesoamerica Kiche [Sipakna, the eldest son of Vukub-Kakish, bathes, sees 400 young men carrying a log; undertakes to carry it alone; fearing his strength, the young men suggest that S. dig a deep hole and throw it on him log; S. made a hole in the edge of the pit in advance, hid in it; cutting off his nails and hair ends, let the ants carry them; when they saw the ants, the young men were convinced that S. was dead, got drunk, S. got out and knocked them down on them home, they all died, turned into Motz stars (Pleiades; identification according to R. Lehmann-Nitsche. Astronomía indígena sudamericana. Buenos Aires 1925. P. 16, 18)]: Popol-Vuh 1959, Ch. 7:24-26.

Guiana. Lokono [Pleiades - Jakrowiwa Twin Brothers]: Magaña 1988:37; the Caribbean Lesser Antilles [Rochefort 1665 et al. Sources; the "mother of knowledge" gave birth to seven sons without her husband, they became Siritjo (Pleiades); she herself is Venus in the morning, according to Penard 1908:61, Wife of the Month]: Magaña, Jara 1982:112; Carinha, Calinha: Magaña 1983, No. 1 [(Ahlbrinck 1931:433-44); Seven brothers chase tapir for a whole year; kill, fry, return to the village; decide to go to heaven because their sisters are late in cooking; they turn into Ciritjo (Pleiades), taken by them tapir head (Maipuri Yuman) with you in Giada, roasting rack (Sirityo sura-ri) in Pegasus], 2 (Maroni County) [as in (1); the brothers' mother did not prepare meals for them in time]: 32; Magañ a, Jara 1982 [people go to the site, children stay alone in the village; seven boys play pretending to be able to fly; they really go up to the sky, turn into Pleiades]: 119; macushi [ seven brothers are always hungry and crying; their mother throws their tapir's jaw to eat, calls them spotlights; they join hands, dance and sing, ascend to heaven; now their mother offers them food; they refuse but are not angry with her; become Pleiades]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890, No. 6:223-225; translated into Lévi-Strauss 1964, No. 131b: 248; Koch-Grünberg 1921, No. 45:141-142.

Western Amazon. Siona, Sekoya [Baira creates land after the flood, helps people get out of the ground, kills his father-in-law, who turns into Tapir; B. goes to heaven, tells his nephews to pursue Tapira; they follow the trail of Tapir's excrement, it's getting fresher; Cayman carries them across the river, bites off their younger brother's leg; they kill Cayman with an ax, reach out their leg; the Pleiades brothers, the axe - Orion's Belt, Hyada - Cayman's Jaw, Milky Way - Tapir Trail]: Vickers 1989:161-167; (cf. Zion [three brothers went hunting, killed the tapir; on the way back they asked Cayman to transport them across the lake; jumping ashore, the latter shouted that Cayman was not their grandfather, but only a crocodile, The crocodile bit off his leg; the shamans began to drink yazhe, making the Sun shine and dry the lake; Cayman's stomach was ripped open, the young man was alive but without a leg; all three brothers began to drink yazhe and flew away; sister refused to drink, the brothers left her at the top of the tree; there she cries, calling her brothers; the caiman's jaw turned into the Pleiades, where you can also see a flute, the end of an ax, tulpa (three stones?) , on which they put yazhe to cook]: Chaves 1958:146-147); for example: Mercier 1979:40-42 [a man warns his wife (her name is Wakana is Owl) that if she dies, she must bury his penis; does the trap, climbs into it, dies; the buried penis turns into a big worm; the woman hides it under a vessel; removing the vessel, sits on the ground; her son finds a worm, the daughter pretends to sit on the ground, they cut off the penis with a loop; thunder sounds; three children climb into the sky along a vine resembling a ladder, turn into the Pleiades; the girl's basket into the constellation Ship or Hare (p.51); a woman turns into an owl , carries a penis in his beak, eats snakes and worms ever since], 65-66 [a person follows Tapir's trail for a year; finds more and more fresh droppings; kills Tapir, cuts in half; the back turns into a manatee , front of the tapir; Milky Way - Tapir Trail]: 49-51; Wavrin 1979 [a man trapped a turkey, fell into it himself; his penis fell off; his wife found him, put him in a hole in the floor of the house, covered it a vessel; told the children (two sons and a daughter) to cook a lot of chichi; the sister became a grasshopper, one of the brothers became a cockroach, hid, saw how the mother removed the vessel, dug the ground, the penis came out, she sat down then poured chichi on him, he drank everything; the children sent his mother to sow tobacco, tore his penis, threw a noose, killed them; his mother beat them; the brothers went towards the Morning Star; Cayman carries them through the river, bites off the younger one's leg; they kill Cayman with an ax, reach out his leg, put it back; they follow Tapir's trail for several years, find more and more fresh droppings; the elder kills Tapir with a spear (the spear is now seen in the sky); the brothers cut Tapir; the back part turns into a manatee, the front into a tapir (otherwise the tapirs would be huge now); they could not climb into the sky on the vine that hung at the edge of the world, returned to their sister; they took their sister and parrot, who made notches on the vine; the sister with the parrot was the first to climb, followed by her younger brother (he has four fish on the rope), followed by the elder (holding a harpoon and tonsils caiman, fishing forest); there is a holiday in the sky, two fish began to cook, they began to multiply; then the mother climbed in, holding her husband's penis; to get rid of her, the children knocked over the boiling vessels, since then the fish while cooking, it does not multiply; the mother became a snake-eater, flew away carrying her husband's penis, since then she has been screaming plaintively; the children have turned into Pleiades and at the same time into plows or plows, they can be seen when the rivers flood ; in the sky you can see siblings, a parrot, a harpoon, a basket and fish]: 63-67; cofan: Borman, Criollo 1990, No. 8 [a woman has two boys, her younger sister and a baby boy; her husband is underground trickster; while the mother was in the garden, the children began to drum the calebass and the mat cup in the house by the hole in the ground; from there something green appeared - the trickster's penis; the children did not recognize their father, they mistook him for a snake they cut off the penis; said: let this be a sign that people are mortal; the severed part crawled into the forest; the mother heard her husband's moans, ran home, began to drum, no one crawled out; she beat children, drove them away, did not let them into the house; they began to think what to turn into; stones - people will make hearth stands; sand - they will dig holes for the supports of the house; earth - will walk on us; trees - they will cut down to build houses; rivers will float us in boats; cedars will make dowels out of us; in the evening they came to the pebble tree on the river, raised their heads, saw the stars, decided to become stars; her sister hid the cotton rope, broke the reeds, tied the rope to the reeds, threw it into the sky, but did not ask; in the morning, the younger brother asked the elder to give it to him; he gave only a crooked reed; she she pierced the sky, the rope came down, became a ladder; the children climbed into heaven, they liked it; they went back to pick up the pet parrot; the mother said she would climb with them; they agreed, but told the parrot to cut the rope when the mother climbed high; the mother climbed with a couch, firewood, hearth stones, ash; the parrot cut off the rope, the children told the mother to become a laughing falcon (gavilan, Herpetotheres cachinnans); when she saw the children, the mother cried; the falcon's feathers turned white because of the ash that woke up; the children became Pleiades (when they are not visible, the rivers are flooded)]: 107-123; Califano, González 1995, No. 38 [the woman has three young children; her husband is an underground worm; she hits her tambourine, sits on the ground, from there her penis rises; her daughter does the same, tells her brothers; the youngest cuts off his penis; that shouts that his children killed him; children reject turning into stone (put it in a hearth), earth (trample), wood (cut down and burn), sand; decide to become stars; the youngest manages to throw a crooked stick into the sky; from there the stairs fall; they go up to the upper world, they like it, they go back to pick them up; the mother climbs after them, taking with her ash-stained stones for the hearth; the children tell the parrot cut the rope; mother falls down, turns into a nightjar (? ; rather into a laughing falcon, see Borman, Criollo 1990), still screams plaintively]: 87-89; shuar [two young men sleep in the open air, want to marry stars; two stars in the form of caterpillars descend to them; one in fear throws her away, brings her home, she turns into a girl; says that her friend was more beautiful than her; has no anus; eats food in the garden, spews cakes and chicha; mother-in-law is unhappy a mess in the house; offended, the star returns to heaven; her sons build a raft, sail to the edge of the world, throw darts into the skyline, climb them to heaven, turn into Pleiades; the husband does not dare climb darts, stays on the ground]: Pelizzaro 1990:221-224 (=1993:221-224).

NW Amazon. Siusi [Pleiades - "boys"]: Koch-Grünberg 1910:204; bora [Luna Titause conceived 7 sons from Thunder; they climbed a tree to eat fruit; Tapir asks him, brothers, too, to plant the fruit refuse; he hits the trunk, the tree grows, becomes huge; one of the brothers turns into an insect (curhuinse), gnaws through a leaf, descends on it; kills Tapir, rises to heaven to his Father Sun (is he, not Thunder, a true father?) ; brothers cross the river on the Cayman; the caiman ate one, only took out his leg; the brothers became Pleiades]: Girard 1958:266-267; chikuna [girl waited for initiation; asked the immortals who came in to make her immortal; among those invited to the festival were Mëtarë (identified as a turtle in lingua geral) and his fiancée; she did not like him because he ate only woody mushrooms; she and her lover Falcon were painting each other on the street; the tapir's skin with the guests sitting on it began to rise to the sky; the brother threw a rope to M.'s fiancée, it broke off, the girl turned into mai ⁿ yu night bird, screaming plaintively, mai ⁿ, mai ⁿ ("brother, brother"); M. broke the vessels with the prepared drink, it contained a lot of worms; ants and everyone who drank it changes skin; those raised on the skin are seen as a halo around the moon or as the Pleiades]: Nimuendaju 1952:135-136.

Central Amazon. Vila-Bela [when leaving, the husband tells his wife that she will find arar feathers on the way to him; the children from the mother's womb show the way; they want to eat, they cry, she hits the stomach, they stop talking; she gets caught to the Jaguars, says that she followed the trail of urubu and the feathers of the arar; one day the Jaguars return without prey and eat it; their grandmother finds eggs in the uterus, of which 7 boys and a girl are born; avenging their mother, invite the Jaguars to swim where it is deeper; they drown; the Jaguar grandmother comes, they kill her; they go up to heaven, turn into Pleiades]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890, No. 13:261-262.

The Central Andes. Mountains (southern Peru?) [during a drought, parents have nothing to feed their children; they let them eat pieces of their flesh cut off their arms and legs; leave their children in a cave; children go out, find their parents' disfigured bodies; they wonder what turn; they do not want to become a pile of stones (the hunter scatters it, using it for a sling), water in the river (people will drink and use it for irrigation), dust on the path (travelers scatter it); decide to climb to the sky become Pleiades]: Benvenutto Murrieta 1935:360-262 in Angeles Caballero 1990:97-99.

Montagna - Jurua. Conibo: Girard 1958:265-266 [(Arturo Burgas Freitas, p.38-44, Buenos Aires); Titause, Mother Moon, became pregnant by lightning; gave birth to seven sons, the youngest is the most powerful; the brothers climbed on tree for fruit; Tapir asked him to shed fruit; without receiving it, he hit the tree, it began to grow; the youngest turned into a curhuinse {leaf cutter ant?} , cut off a leaf, covered it, went down, killed Tapir; the brothers went to look for their Sun Father; they rose to heaven along a chain of arrows; the arrows were the rays of Barí, the sun; B. turned them into Pleiades], 266-267 [(Dias Castañeda 1923:405); Supan swept the courtyard of the house, the children interfered; she cursed them, threw fruits, also called supan, on the ground; many children appeared from the seeds that had flown out; they went looking for her parents; the old woman said she would find it in the sky; on Lake Cayman ate one of the brothers; the others killed the caiman, took his swallowed leg out of his belly; they made a boat out of the Cayman's ribs; Inca (=The Sun, p. 404) grew a vine to the sky, the children rose along it, turned into the Pleiades, and the leg of the deceased brother into one of the constellations]; (cf. marubo [a jaguar killed a pregnant woman; the father picked up a boy (it is clear from the following that five twins); they have grown up, kill larger animals, bring their grandmother's head, learn from her animal names; lured the jaguar into the water, he ran into hidden spears, they cut off his head, heart, liver; met another jaguar, that brother of the first, killed one boy, he turned into the toad turtle; the brothers killed the jaguar, brought her grandmother's head, and she cried; they thought she was related to the jaguars, killed her, went west, went up to heaven]: Melatti 1984:153).

Southern Amazon. Kamayura: Münzel 1973 [Turtle boys throw Tapira from the tree not the fruits of the genipa, but the peel; he shakes them off the tree, tramples them, leaves; some are alive, follow Tapir's trail for a year, find more and more fresh excrement; ends up in the sky; they kill Tapir, cut to pieces; they decide to stay in the sky; these are the Pleiades, rising after a constellation that eats Tapir's grilled meat]: 187-190; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [as in Münzel; some boys turn into turtles after falling from a tree; they don't end up in the sky, but go up there after Tapir is killed]: 171-173; paresis [Wasaré and his brothers and sisters were inside the rock; Enoharé lived outside the stone with his wife Zorotiró and two children, a boy and a girl; the children heard the sound of sacred flutes inside the stone; their father made it wooden with a sword, I saw a hole in the stone inside the people; Urubu turned into a mueu, flew out, found out about the world, came back; W. told Aguti to expand the hole, but he broke his tooth; tells different woodpeckers, each as a reward gets the peculiarities of her plumage; people came out, sister W. was stuck because she had thick hips and stomach; a man with a toothache came out, although W. told him not to go out; so did people with other illnesses; then Nare's men came out with sacred flutes and rattles; they played in stone with a stone ball, giving it their heads; now they rolled, went where he would lead; Marten ate honey in the hollow, it was walled up there; his Cuñado Ahoray saved him; everyone set fire, Marten broke the ban on looking back, everything burned down - there was savannah; where cuñado was going - there was a forest-steppe; W.'s people hid from the fire in the battleship's hole; to Tapir behind the fire a piece of bark (a crease of skin) grew; there was no water, Aguchi found the spring, hid it; Tapir came in, the spring turned into a large lake; people settled; W. sent Kaxie to become the sun, giving a crown of feathers; when The sun rose, people cut off their tails, shaved off their body hair, cut off the membranes on their legs and arms; the sun first shone 24 hours a day; Dictyra sp.: stars are needed to make it night; W. attached feathers eagles to the bodies of seven sons, turned them into Pleiades; other sons to Mars, the Evening Star, Aries, the Morning Star]: Pereira 1986, No. 2:34-69; nambiquara [only Ne.àLusu owns cassava; one a group of hunters for another goes to him; on the way they meet the evil spirit Haiêhru (Pentatomideo, an insect that gives off a foul-smelling liquid); he kills them by peeing in their eyes, frying their meat; only 9 boys and 8 girls are left; H. feeds them with animal meat; they ask Papa Vento (Anolis punctatus) to get a piece of meat that H. himself eats; this is the human ear; children they open Calebasa H., find their fathers' jewelry inside; dig a trap hole; H. fails, they finish him off with arrows; tell his wife that her husband asks her to bring him food; they make a shaky bridge across the river; when she steps on it, two boys overturn it, the cannibal falls into the water; they finish it off with arrows; come to N.; the fog over the water is the crushed human meat that the cannibal had; children began to think where to go now - underground, under water? Ne.àlusu heard them, invited them to clear the plot; the children did not cut down the trees, but wrapped them in a vine, knocked them all down at once, quickly returned; N. decided that they were playing off; the children were offended, smashed vessels with chicha, left; began to rise to heaven - boys in front, girls behind (girls behind so that boys would not see their genitals); in the sky they turn into Pleiades (var.: Southern Cross), honeycombs that they took it with them - into the Coal Bag; Inambu (Crypturus sp.) and the lizard Papa Vento (Anolis punctatus) climb too, but they are frightened, children turn them into birds and animals, boys cut off their inamba tail]: Pereira 1983, No. 46:65-77 (=1973:24-28).

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (pau d'arco) [(Nimuendaju, MS); the sorcerer caused drought; the cultivated plants on the site began to approach the Month (Mundurué), asking for help; The Month and the Morning Star (man) came to to the shaman, the Month gave him a potion; the shaman wrapped him in a sheet, screamed, threw it to the calebass; when she fell and split, the Sun was inside; answered the shaman that it was the Month that had placed it there; poured the rain even though it was the middle of the dry season; the Sun, the Month and the Morning Star are gone]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 2:32; sherente [while the father is hunting, his sons send the youngest Asaré to lead mother to cut their hair in the orphanage; their mother was raped, A. told his father about it; the brothers set fire to their parents' hut, they became falcons, flew away; the brothers left, A. followed, they left him water in their shells a nut, it was not enough; one dug a well, the water poured in, filled the sea; A. swam to the other side for a forgotten arrow; on the way back he asked the caiman to transport him, he refused, A. scolded him, managed to swim ashore; also, when crossing the second or third river, he was hidden from his pursuer under the skins of partridge fruits, then a monkey; A. hid at Skunk, who killed the caiman with his jet; brothers turn into Seven Stars (probably the Pleiades), still love swimming in the sea]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 10:40-41; crash [seven brothers agree to rape their mother, younger too reluctantly agrees; the elder tells the mother who brought them food that they want something else from her; she has to get along with them; the youngest is ashamed, he tells his father, the father beats his sons; sets fire to the house, turns into a falcon that eats lizards and chickens; the mother also becomes a falcon; the brothers go traveling, looking for water at the bottom of a dry stream, the stream turns into a wide river, the younger one stays alone the elders are on the other side; the caiman first tries to drown the youngest, then takes him across the river; the young man grabs a branch, runs; the Atoré bird hides him under cut bushes; Nanda hides him under his cut bushes with a mouse, says she has an abscess there; a monkey hides a nutshell under a pile; an opossum sprays urine on Cayman, killing him; the brothers turn into the Pleiades, dive into the water in June]: Wilbert 1978, No. 18:81 -87.

Chaco. Caduveo [seven boys and girls play late in the yard, do not listen to their father; at midnight a beast comes down, takes them to heaven; they turn into the Pleiades (Nibetad)]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 22:42-43; Toba (Argentina) [Lehmann-Nitsche 1925:195-196; during the world fire, those who rose to heaven escaped and became stars: three old women (Orion Belt), a group of boys ( Pleiades, Dapitshí), three children (Orion's sword), a woman Morning Star, a woman Evening Star, Nandu, behind and in front of whom is a dog chasing him (Centaur); Coal Bags - two mortars taken by women; after the fire, the old man who came out became a caiman, the old woman became an anteater, and others became animals; only one man retained his human appearance; he was lowered from the sky by a woman, but the rope was cut too close to the ground, so the woman (and all the Indians after her) turned out to be ugly]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 1:25-26; matako: Metraux 1935c [The Pleiades are a group of people gathered to bask in front of the fire; if you move the fire, ash soars up, settles on the ground in the form of hoarfrost (las heladas)]: 137; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 2 [Metraux 1939:16; A deer marries a Jaguar's daughter; mother-in-law- Jaguariha kills his deer son-in-law, brings her daughter a piece of his meat; she recognizes her husband; two sons of a deer kill Jaguar's children, feed him meat; when they run away, they shout about it; he chases them, they shoot at the sky, making a chain of arrows; they go to heaven, turn into the Pleiades; their mother follows them, turns into the Southern Cross (saying that we are talking about stars near the Pleiades that appear in the morning of mid-September; that is, this is not the Southern Cross)], 5 [people often went to heaven for fish and honey, climbing a tall tree; houses refused to share with the old woman; she burned the tree; the rest they turned into Pleiades in the sky], 6 [people from earth went to heaven hunting, climbing a large tree; once they killed a jaguar; sharing meat, they gave the old man a stomach; he was offended and burned a tree; those left in the sky turned into Pleiades; one woman threw a bag of honey from the sky to the children; the children grew up, these are our ancestors]: 38, 45, 46; mocovi [Pleiades are a group of boys, their mother is a big star; dogs killed a monstrous snake; revived an older boy who was trying to get along with his daughter Noweté (witches)]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 13:35.