The Seven-Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky from the Legends of the Kah-ta'i-hai'a were the very first daughters of the Sun, also known as Chuma-Hai by the descendants of the Star-people.  The mother of the Seven Sisters was tah-Chuma-Hai, the not-Sun of Otherworld.  The first ever Seven-Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky were fostered and brought into the living realm by Peh-lah-na, Sister Moon, who was mistakenly identified as the true wife of Chuma-Hai.  But that was only because tah-Chuma-Hai could not live in real-time.  Her domain was—and is—in Otherworld, which is also called Otherside, Shadowland, or the Land of Shadow.

​            Peh-lah-na, Sister Moon's, voice was forever silent about the origin of her foster-daughters, and she vowed to keep that knowledge secret.  Once per cycle of the Moon, however, Peh-lah-na still turns her golden-white face away from the Earthmother, and cries tears of everlasting shame at her seven daughters' un-chaste origin.  And yet, Sister-Moon forever-always has been able to regain her silent dignity, and has forever returned to flood the Seven-Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky with her soft, golden-white warmth and light—albeit a reflected light.  Because of the true source of eternal light that the Severn-Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky carried within them, the Seven Sisters  were the most cherished of all of Peh-lah-na's children.  They were, in order of birth:

 

·         Ah-teh-na-pah-tah-pah-ech'na-tah-Mantah — She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness

·         Tah-Nee-Ah Ik-sa-hai — Bright Star-Chaser

·         O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko — Most-Beautiful-Day-Star

·         Jai'o'hai Bih-noh'pah — Star-Dancer

·         Nichi Mah-He-Nah-Pah — Little Brave-Heart of the River

·         Tah-Nak-Te'o-Tah-Ne'a-Hai — Sweet-Bright-Star

·         Nichi-Pak-tah-kah-Mo'oh-da-Chuma — Littlest-Daughter-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky — Star-Woman

 

(1) The Eldest — Ah-teh-na-pah-tah-pah-ech'na-tah-Mantah

            She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness, as Star-Man renamed her, kept Star-Man's great Teh-na Bash-ta'ia, his Star-Lance, forever safe by sacrificing her own life and using the Ca-ha'ya—the Sun-brightened, ancient Medicine—of her own soul to hide the Great Lance from Darkness for all of eternity.  Only She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness, her eldest daughter, and their direct descendants would ever know that secret, which was passed through generations of shared maternal legacy.

            She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness's eldest daughter was Teh-Na'a-Pah-Hai, Star-Speaker.  Knowing that her inner light would forever be a beacon to the Dark Minions who sought to recover Star-Man's Great Lance, Chuma-Hai the Sun recolored the bright-white skin of She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness's first-born daughter with Pah-i'a-na the Earthmother's red-brown clay by baking the color into her skin.  The ruse was so successful that the color of the skin of all of the descendants of the Star-People was forever changed.  Those descendants of the original Star-dwellers were thereafter known as Kah-ta'i-hai'a, the People.  Dah'jeh-le-vah, the Mountain of the Ancestors, to this very day shelters those inner-light-bearing descendants of the Star-people.

            Naya-Kah-Pah-i'a-na, She-of-the-Earthmother, She-Who-Whispers-into-Darkness' eldest granddaughter, was the first and eldest Daughter of Teh-Na'a-Pah-Hai, Star-Speaker.  She was the first of all naturally born children whose inner light was to remain hidden by the red-brown coloring from Pah-i'a-na, the Earthmother.  In her, and in the blood of all her direct, maternal descendants, the Great Secret of the Star-Lance's hiding place has forever been carried.

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(2) Tah-Nee-Ah Ik-sa-hai — Bright-Star-Chaser

​            Tah-Nee-Ah Ik-sa-hai — Bright-Star-Chaser, who runs as fast as starlight.  Without ceasing, she crosses the vastness of the Great Void, never tiring in her race through Shadow to find her forever-lost sibling, the Littlest-Sister-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky.

 

(3) O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko — Most-Beautiful-Day-Star

​            O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko's radiance was unsurpassed.  As was her skill with all things touched by Shadow.  None could match her ability to shape-change, and to create matter from Darkness just as equally as she could from light.  Day-Star of Legend fought the Minions of Darkness with her bare hands.  The Legends proclaim that it was O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko who was the very first to answer O'hai Na'a-Ka'o, Star-Man's, call to arms to turn the Great Tide of Darkness from the heavens.

            O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko tirelessly stood beside the great Warrior of Light, and as the Battle of the Stars eventually turned, it was Most-Beautiful-Day-Star who pushed onward into the Darkness, continuing into the Great Void while Star-Man searched beyond all light for Star-Woman and his Darkness-stolen Star-Child.

            With a promise that one day they would be re-united, Day-Star made the golden-haired Warrior of Light vow to save his traditional, brotherly kiss of parting until one day when their destinies would once again be brought together.  Their kiss, like a planted seed, would then be transformed into a kiss of greeting — or even more than a kiss of greeting should O'hai Na'a-Ka'o not find Day-Star's youngest Sister, the Littlest-Sister-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky, otherwise known as Star-Woman.

            Most-Beautiful-Day-Star magically reached into Shadow and created O'hai-Po'a, Star-Horse, who was filled with starlight.  The great Mare faithfully carried Star-Man across the forever-depths of purest Darkness.  Star-Man eventually had to abandon Star-Horse when he heard a distant call for help from an unknown Sister of Light.  Unable to any longer ride his starlight-filled Mare into Shadow, Star-Man decided to pursue the lost Sister on foot.  Whispering his need into the absolute Darkness of the Great Void, and with a belief that filled his heart-of-Hearts with utmost trust, O'hai Na'a-Ka'o knew that O'hai-Po'a would serendipitously be guided by light.

            True to the light in her name, it was Star-Horse who found the injured Sister.  Unbeknownst to Star-Man, when he had sent the faithful Mare away, he had sent O'hai-Po'a, Star-Horse, to aid Tah-Nak-Te'o-Tah-Ne'a-Hai, Sweet-Bright-Star, the second youngest Daughter-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky.  Realizing that Star-Man was lost in the Darkness of the Great Void, Sweet-Bright-Star wove a magical black feather into Star-Horse's mane.  The Starbright-eyed Mare eventually returned to Star-Man.  Having searched forever, and far beyond the Stars to find him, O'hai Na'a-Ka'o removed the black feather from Star-Horse's mane and transferred it to his own, left-temple braid.

            Dja-ne-ke'a Cho-ko-do'o'hai — Walks-Far-Through-Starlight — was O'hai-Ne'ah-Li'iko, Most-Beautiful-Day-Star's, first-born daughter.  She was forced to lead her injured, star-nosed, jet-black Stallion Sky-Foot through the Dark Void to save him from the Dark Beasts who were pursuing them.  Like her aunt, Bright-Star-Chaser, she races non-stop through the Heavens, constantly goading and leading the Dark Ones away from the Star-Children.

 

(4) Jai'o'hai Bih-noh'pah — Star-Dancer

​            Jai'o'hai Bih-noh'pah's knowledge of ancient Medicine was perhaps the greatest of all the Seven Sisters.  Her own search for Nichi-Pak-tah-kah-Mo'oh-da-Chuma, the Littlest Sister-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky, led her to seek within the very hearts of the stars that lay across the heavens.  Thus it was that she mastered the ancient Language of the Stars, and rediscovered all of their yet-to-be-revealed secrets.  Thinking that perhaps tah-Chuma-Hai, the dark-Sun of Otherworld, their own blood-mother, had hidden the Littlest-Sister-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky within the shadowy Darkness of the not-Star's own Medicine-filled heart, Star-Dancer slipped into Otherworld in search of her youngest Sister and never returned.  Legend tells that it is Jai'o'hai Bih-noh'pah's own silent whisper that Shadowdancers and Seekers of Medicine can hear as they listen to the voices of the stars.

 

(5) Mah-He-Nah-Pah — Brave Heart of the River

​            The third youngest of the Seven-Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky from Legend, whose own daughter is also Named Mah-He-Nah-Pah, showed Little Star-Speaker of Legend how to search for Star-Man's Teh-na Bash-ta'ia in the Great River of Life among the souls of the dead who are awaiting to be reborn.  It was Nichi-Mah-He-Nah-Pah, Little-Brave-Heart-of-the-River, who taught Star-Man how to look into the depths of that allegorical Great River of Otherworld — which is also called the River of Souls — and showed Star-Man how to find Nichi O'hai Pak-tah-nah, Little Star-Child's, ancient thread of Destiny, which led him to eventually discover his lost daughter deep in the Darkness of the Great Void.

 

 (6) Tah-Nak-Te'o-Tah-Ne'a-Hai — Sweet-Bright-Star

​            The second youngest of the ancient Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky, who was the almost-twin of the Littlest Daughter.  Sweet-Bright-Star of Legend had starsight, or future-sight, a prescient gift that made her never believe that her younger Sister of the Sun-Filled-Sky was forever-lost — because even though she was gone, the two Sisters-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky continued to appear in Sweet-Bright-Star's dreams.

             Secretly, because of her great, all-consuming love for both Nichi-Pak-tah-kah-Mo'oh-da-Chuma and for O'hai Na'a-Ka'o, Sweet-Bright-Star snuck away into Darkness in search of Star-Woman.  Trusting in her heart of Hearts that her almost-twin Sister of First Light needed her help, Sweet-Bright-Star believed that she would eventually find her.  She was thence the third of the ancient Star-People to step into the forever-Darkness of the Great Void — and into that eternal Realm of Blackness — which lay far beyond the Stars, where both she and her younger Sister, Star-Woman, the Littlest-Sister-of-the-Sun-Filled-Sky remained Forever lost in Darkness. 

            Sweet-Star's prescient Star-Sight had shown her the most profound of all of the secrets in the ancient Legends.  It was this secret that she whispered into Star-Man's ear when he departed from that land of eternal First Light.  The lifetimes-carried secret was that she herself would give birth to yet another Child of the Stars.  And that she would, as well, name her daughter Star-Child.  But was not revealed to anyone was the forever-unanswered question of paternity, which remains a mystery even to this day.  Many speculate that there was only one father of both Star-Children.  But that was a secret that belonged to Star-Woman's second youngest, most-dear-to-her-heart-of-Hearts Little Sister of Light Tah-Nak-Te'o-Tah-Ne'a-Hai.

            And yet, that secret was now one that O'hai Na'a-Ka'o was fated to carry with him, for all of time, as he walked through the Great Void searching for his Starlight-bride Star-Woman, and his forever-lost daughter Star-Child.

 

(7) The Youngest — Nichi-Pak-tah-kah-Mo'oh-da-Chuma-Hai

​            O'hai Pah-le-lah, Star-Woman, the Star-Bride of O'hai Na'a-Ka'o, Star-Man, is also called Iya-Ko-Naya-Pa, She-Who-Walks-Bravely.  Her name is often whispered in the telling of a Legend because she is so very much revered as the Mother-of-the-Stars.  She is known as She-Who-Fights-Beside-Star-Man, who is her Maktah Ca-ha'ya, or soul-bound warrior-partner.  Koh-Kah-na'a-Shatwa-Hei was the very first Seeker-of-Truth.

            In desperate response to her eldest, first-born daughter Star-Child, O'hai Pak-tah-nah, having been stolen away by the greatest of all Dark Beasts, Star-Woman threw herself into the Great Void — that place beyond all Light, the place of forever-Darkness — in search of Little Star-Child.  It was into the farthest depths of the Great Void that Star-Man followed, where he continues to this day to search for the two greatest loves of all his lifetimes.