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Freethinkers THE MYSTERIOUS PLEIADES According to Polynesian mythology the Pleiades were once a single star by far the brightest in the sky! This star boasted so much of its beauty, however, that one day the god Tane picked up the bright star Aldebaran and hurled it, smashing the boastful star into fainter fragments we now see as the Pleiades. In Greek mythology the Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione ( who are themselves represented by stars in the cluster) and...

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