I came across this super cute story about the Timorese seven sisters while reading the Lonely Planet this afternoon:

Ethnic Timorese are known as ‘people of the sunrise’ and trace their ancestry back to the seven sisters who came down to earth from the sun for a bath.  A lustful man watched as they bathed, and hid the most beautiful sister’s robes.  Naked and ashamed, she was left behind, and eventually became mother of the Timorese people.

The number seven permeates Timor.  Their sacred swords have seven lines, special rituals are carried out every seven years, and seven also symbolizes completion of the human life cycle; from birth, through childhood and adulthood, to marriage and the cultivation of wisdowm, and finally death and th emerging of the soul back into the universe.

© Lonely Planet Indonesia 2011

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