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Thursday 8 July 2021

Retelling a Story - How Matariki Came to Be

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A long time ago there lived perfect gods, ranginui and papatuanuku, the sky father and earth mother. The love they had had for each other was very immense that they could not bear to be apart. The parents were also keeping  their six children, waiti, waita, ururangi, tupu a nuku, tupu a rangi from the light


That was until one gloomy dark day when Ranginui  stirred a beam of light which shone from papatianuku’s armpit out her children, the children moaned to free themselves and enter the world of light. The children begand to work on breaking the embrace that had kept their universe so dark for so long . But their parents' love was so strong that their efforts were effortless.


Then that's when the almighty Tane Mahuta, God of the forest layed flat down on his back and dug his shoulders deep into his mother’s body. With his strong legs Tane pushed against his father and with all his strength he summoned the attemp to let light into the world. Papatuanuku tried  crying out for him to stop but he ignored it. Tane Pushed even harder  and the love betreen his parents began to tear apart. Tane fully extended his strong powerful legs and plunged ranginui to the heavens.


When ranginui flew up into the sky paptuanuku felt miserable but when Ranginui’s tears fell from the sky she felt a little bit happy. It reminded her of his grief and love for her. As this happened it angered tane mahuta’s brother, Tawhirimatea, the god of the winds.  He anger sent raging storms and viloent winds Tawhirimatea was into much main that he tored his eyes out and crushed them into pieces. His winds carried the pieces into the heavens creating a cluster of stars, we know today as Matarik


Legacy Matariki Questions (W10, T2)

 MATARIKI, MAORI NEW YEAR - Questions


  1. How did Papatuanuku, and Ranginui become separated?  Tane mahuta wanted them to tear apart so there would be light in their world so he layed down on his back and kicked his father up into the heavens.


  1. Where does the name Matariki come from? Matarik came from the eyes of tawhirimatea. 


  1. What time of the year does Matariki happen? Late July or early june.



  1. What part of the sky does Matariki appear in?  North East of the sky.



  1. What does the article say Matariki is time for? Coming together as a family and thinking about the past.



  1. What do these Te Reo Maori words mean?


WORD

DEFINITION

whānau

Family

tupuna

Grandparent

rongoā

Medicine 

waiata

Song 

mokopuna

Grandchild


  1. Name each of the seven stars that make up the Matariki star cluster. Waiti,Waita,Wapunarangi,Tupu a nuku,Tupu a rangi,Urarangi,Matariki



  1. What are the lessons we learnt from each of them? When you are kind to someone it will always come right  back to you. This lesson was taught to us by Waipunarangi. There is also another one from Urarangi and it says success is having a good attitude.




  1. Which of these stars best represents the role you play in your whānau? 

Explain why in a Paragraph. 


Urarangi, The youngest star because she loves to race all her sisters to her grandmother and get to sit on the best spot of her grandmother's lap. It’s like my family. ‘’ You see, my family is very competitive when it comes to racing’’ sometimes we also race to see who kisses my grandma on her cheeks first. As you know the youngest girls always win. Ururangi reminds me that a good attitude is always the key to success!.