In myths all ages, societies and cultures of the world, celestial bodies, with their
movements, itineraries and transits are of fundamental importance for structuring beliefs and weaving meanings into our everyday life. This essay focuses on the symbolic and archetypal features of an ancestral Aboriginal women’s story, as it was transcribed by Katie Langloh Parker, in order to study the symbolic relations and archetypal
consonance and connections it has with analogous stories and myths of other traditions
dealing with stars and constellations. In the Aboriginal world there are many different narrations dealing with the Pleiades, and “Where the Frost comes From”, analysed here, is an interesting example.
