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hey readers👋. throughout the week i have been reading and watching videos about Matariki

Matariki is the name for Maori new year the stars come up show 

Between the 19th of June and the 11th of July and you can see

The stars  for the whole year 

The other name for Matariki is the seven sisters

We can celebrate Matariki several different ways

It is a time for familys to tell stories about Matariki  and to have Kai🍣🍤🍧🍪 and the day is a lot more short  it is a time for people to

 Learn about stars in the old days Matariki is a time to plan things for the future and to forgive and forget problems

Video #1:from Ranginui and papa-enugu.They are the parents of the family Matariki. Matariki are seven sister stars.

They are very entertaining young sisters. They like to whizz about zigzagging around other stars 

Oh we need to stop them, says the parents. Oh, i know a good 

job. They can be of the new year siad tanil tanil

Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui: In many parts of Aotearoa, people  celebrate the Māori New Year when  Matariki (a group of stars also known  as the Pleiades) appears. However, if  you live in Taranaki, Matariki is hard  to see because it’s very low in the  eastern sky. Instead, the people of  Taranaki look for Puanga (also called  Rigel). Puanga is the very bright star  that can be seen above the three stars  named Tautoru (or Orion’s Belt). This year, the students have invited friends  and whānau to join them for a hākari (feast).  Earlier in the day, a hāngī was put down.  Everyone had a job. It’s the first time the  school has had a big hāngī for Puanga.  Koro Bill is the “hāngī master” – he knows  how to make a really good hāngī. 

The evening starts with a mihi (speech)  and karakia (chant) led by Matua Louie.  He greets the whānau of Ramanui School  and takes time to remember those who  have passed on. Farewelling 

e Papa Website: Compared with other star clusters, Matariki is close to Earth – but it’s still 440 light years away. If you drove there in a car at a speed of 100 kilometres an hour, you would arrive in 4.8 billion years

The star cluster is visible to the naked eye from most parts of our planet, and has many different names. In English, it is called the Pleiades (its ancient Greek name) or the Seven Sisters. The Hawaiian name is Makali‘i, or ‘eyes of royalty’, and in Japan it is Subaru, meaning ‘gathered together’.