What is Matariki?

MATARIKI

Matariki is a big cluster of stars in the sky. You can see it throughout New Zealand in mid-winter. According to the Maramataka (the Māori lunar calendar), the reappearance of Matariki brings the old lunar year to a close and marks the beginning of the new year. Hence, Matariki is associated with the Māori New Year.

History of Matariki:

Matariki is the Maori name for a group of seven stars known as the Pleiades star cluster.

Some people think of Matariki as a mother star with six daughters, and it is often known as the Seven Sisters. Others think that Matariki is the ‘eyes of the god’. When Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, were parted by their children the god of wind, Tāwhirimātea, became he was angry, tearing out his eyes and hurling them into the heavens. Matariki appears in the northern sky of New Zealand, it also was a signal to the Maori that harvest season was around the corner.

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