Miyay Miyay
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Authors: ASE Tech Team, Youla Azkarrula
The Miyay Miyay are the seven young women (sisters) or the Pleiades.[1]
Etymology and History
The Miyay Miyay are the seven young women (sisters) who were chased into the sky, depending on the story, by the Birray Birray, or by various Wiringins or other bad persons. They form the Pleiades star cluster, and as one sister is shy, normally we only see six stars. They are protected from the Birray Birray in Orion by the Wiringin, Old Dthillar, who is Aldebaran.[2]
Variant Spelling
- Miai-Miai (Kamilaroi)
- Miyay Miyay (Kamilaroi, Euahlayi; several girls)
- Meamai
- Mayi-mayi
Mythology
IAU Working Group on Star Names
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Reference
- ↑ Fuller, R. (2014) PhD thesis
- ↑ Robert S. Fuller and Ghillar Michael Anderson in Stellarium; printed in appendix of Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (eds.): Astronomy in Culture – Cultures of Astronomy. Featuring the Proceedings of the Splinter Meeting in the Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Sept. 14-16, 2021., Reihe: Nuncius Hamburgensis 57, tredition, Hamburg & OpenScienceTechnology Berlin (cBook)
