But they who were polluted by their enforced residence with the earth-man never shone again with the brightness of their sisters.

This legend was told emphasising the beauty of chastity.
Men had desired all the sisters when once they travelled on earth, but they kept themselves unspotted from the world, with the exception of the two Wurrunnah captured by stratagem.
Orion's Sword and Belt are the Berai-Berai--the boys--who best of all loved the Meamei, for whom they used to hunt, bringing their offerings to them; but the ice-maidens were obdurate and cold, disdaining lovers, as might be expected from their parentage.

Their father was a rocky mountain, their mother an icy mountain stream.

But when they were translated to the sky the Berai-Berai were inconsolable.

They would not hunt, they would not eat, they pined away and died.