But he was unsuccessful beyond dulling their brightness, for the ice as it melted put out the fire.

The two ice-maidens were miserable on earth with him, and eventually escaped by the aid of one of their 'multiplex totems,' the pine-tree.

Wurrunnah had told them to get him pine bark.

Now the Meamei--Pleiades--belong to the Beewee totem, so does the pine-tree.

They chopped the pine bark, and as they did so the tree telescoped itself to the sky where the five other Meamei were, whom they now joined, and with whom they have remained ever since.