I don't think that's a good counterargument--there are hundreds and probably thousands of data points in those regions. Using a simplistic metaphor, what are the odds that when all the cultures in the world rolled the dice to decide whether they'd have a Cosmic Hunter myth almost all of the ones in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea rolled not to? Vanishingly small.

I don't know.

Stories like this sound pretty close to me -

http://members.optusnet.com.au/virgothomas/space/abobeliefs2... (Two Brothers & The Pointer Stars)

All primitive societies obviously have stories of the stars being people and animals.

Men were hunters, the animals will be game.

Finding a exact narrative the fits your model from thousands of data points feels possible to me.

[edit] From the authors paper read "What about the Saharan versions of Cosmic Hunt" and tell me they are not just making stuff up

>From the authors paper read "What about the Saharan versions of Cosmic Hunt" and tell me they are not just making stuff up

What about it seems as if they are "making stuff up"?

They summarize several versions of some such stories, with differentiating details, and even give the papers and studies where they were collected by anthropologists, etc.