circa 2200 BC Mesopotamian texts often indicated that the mule mule included seven loom ash seven Wanderers that are familiar and the scholars assumed that these were the brightest members of the Pleiades which can be seen with the naked eye the fact that depending on classification the group has either six or nine such bright stars and not seven posed a problem but it was brushed aside for lack of any better ideas as to the meaning of mule mule Fromm's Kugler reluctantly accepted the Pleiades as the solution but expressed his astonishment