Happy Matariki everyone!
On the 2 July it was Māori New Year,
Matariki and the Pleiades star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two. one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.
My kite has a taniwha and the wind is represented with the kuru . I then colored it in like a rainbow.
What stories have you heard about Matariki?
