The ǀKhunuseti are the Pleiades, the 'Stars of Spring' of Nama star-lore, remembered as the daughters of the sky god Tsui-ǁgoab. Their first rising above the eastern horizon before dawn marked the opening of the wet season and was greeted with a communal ritual of slaughter, dance and song in honour of the sky god. In their myth the sisters sent their husband, the star Aldebaran, to shoot the three zebras of Orion's Belt; he took only one arrow and missed, and dared neither retrieve the arrow — Orion's sword, lying beyond the zebras where a lion, Betelgeuse, sat watching — nor face the anger of his wives, so he sits in the cold sky still, shivering, hungry and thirsty. The tale is remembered as the curse of the women. Though a sisterhood of seven stars, they act and are invoked as a single named personage of the sky.