Tonight we're looking at the Pleiades.

The one I want to tell you tonight is from the Kokatha people, who live in the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia.

The tale I’m going to tell is just going to be my way of telling it in a modern format. But just remember that those communities are still there and the story is still theirs. And to anyone who speaks these languages, my apologies in advance for how I handle the names.

Now hidden inside it is something that a team of astronomers found that absolutely blew my mind when I learned about it. It is one of the single most impressive observations I have ever come across in any culture, anywhere.

So stay with me through the story. Because the decode on this one is worth it.

Tonight we're looking at a constellation called Andromeda.

When most people in the astro world hear that word, they immediately think of the Andromeda galaxy, not the constellation.

But this story’s focus is on the tale behind Andromeda, which comes to us from Greek mythology.

This story, which is just a small piece in a greater story, contains six constellations, all relatively close to each other in the night sky.

When viewed together, tell a story from long ago.

But this story goes back much further than most people think.

So with that, let's find out how she ended up with the name, "The Chained Beauty".

Tonight's story comes to us from the Mexica, the people most of us call the Aztecs, a myth written down in the fifteen hundreds, based on a much older tradition.

Many say there's a face on the Moon. But to the Aztecs, they saw a rabbit. And don't let the fact that it's a rabbit fool you, because this story is filled with drama, fire, sacrifice, and punishment.

So let's go back to the beginning. And when I say the beginning, I mean the beginning of this world. The one we’re in today.

Because this world where you and I live in…isn’t the first.