What does the "seven sisters" refer to?

Question

The term has been used to refer to different situations. There are no correct answers. Let's see how many different connotations we can get here for the"seven sisters." Please not to include other numbers such as "four sisters" or "three sisters."

It would be nice if your answers gave some details as to why the term sisters were given to whatever group it applies to.

Answer 1

* Pleiades (mythology), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
* Pleiades (star cluster), a star cluster named for the mythological characters
* The Hesperides of Greek mythology
* The Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
* Seven Sisters (Meja), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja

In geographical locations:

* Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs in England
* Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
* Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London
* Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
* Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
* Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
* Seven Sisters, Wales, a village in the south Wales
* Seven Sisters, British Columbia, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
* Seven Sisters, Norway, a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
* Seven Sisters, Queensland, a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
* Seven Sisters, Baja California, Mexico, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico


As organizations:

* Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
* Seven Sisters (oil companies), a group of oil companies
* Seven Sisters (law firms), a group of major law firms in Toronto

As colleges:

* Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges

Also

* Qi Xi, a Chinese holiday, sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"
* The Seven Sisters of the Telephone, sometimes used to describe the original Baby Bells
* The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations

Answer 2

Seven Sisters Baja

Answer 3

I can think of 2. There were 7 women's universities, which were the equivalent to the Ivy League, known as the 7 Sisters. There is also a small constellation known as the 7 Sisters. It is V-shaped, and only 5 of the stars are actually visible with the naked eye.

Answer 4

The Pleiad(e)s were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and half-sisters of the Hyades, whose mother was Æthra (`bright sky'; a different Æthra than the mother of Theseus). They were perhaps also half-sisters of the Hesperides, who were daughters of either Night alone, or Atlas and Hesperis (`evening'), or Ceto and Phorcys. Both Pleione and Æthra were Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, the titans who ruled the outer seas before being replaced by Poseidon. Atlas (`he who dares' or `suffers'; from the Indo-European tel-, tla-, `to lift, support, bear'), another titan, led their war against the gods, and was afterward condemned by Zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. The Pleiades were also nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades (`rainmakers' or `piglets'; individual Hyad names are not fully agreed upon) were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Bacchus. The Hesperides (`nymphs of the west'), apparently not counted in this, were only three, and dwelled in an orchard of Hera's, from which Heracles fetched golden apples in his eleventh labor.

Answer 5

The Seven Sisters were the educational universities that catered exclusively to women.

Mount Holyoke
Wellesley
Smith
Radcliffe (research Institute)
Bryn Mawr
Barnard
Vassar (co-ed since 1991)

Answer 6

There is a rock formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Clark County, Nevada, called "The Seven Sisters". It consists of seven very tall rock formations towering up out of the ground in fairly close proximity to each other. This valley is full of very colorful and interesting rock formations, as well as ancient Indian petroglyphs.

Answer 7

in Massey Ont. Canada there a waterfalls here called the seven sisters in the provincial park I have no idea were the name came from

Answer 8

The seven hills of Rome, Italy has been cited.

Answer 9

seven sisters in the night sky

Answer 10

ive heard it used to refer to a constellation, a series of waterfalls in (i think) Ontario, and a group of huge old trees in Stanley Park (vancouver)