I am the last person to promote historical criticism over oral and written traditions, but the case is much weaker than what people who repeat this suggest. 1.

I am the last person to promote historical criticism over oral and written traditions, but the case is much weaker than what people who repeat this suggest. 1. There's a lot of stars, and they were very important to most every ancient culture on Earth. 2. Our pattern-matching brains are inclined to see vaguely similar things, even across different times and cultures. 3. Even so, there is very little overlap between Aboriginal constellations and other cultures' constellations. 4. The aboriginal Australians do not in fact all recognize the Pleiades. Some don't see it as a group at all. Other aboriginal groups actually note differing numbers of sisters (5-7) and have different stories about them, although the motif of fleeing from different men represented by different astronomical objects is a more common one than not. The case for this is nice to imagine but very weak. It is not the case that "they" have the "exact same story" at all.