Matariki is maori new year.
New zealand maori celebrate Matariki.
Whanau gathering-
This it the time to celebrate the beginning of the new year.
Preparing matariki breakfast-people get up before sunrise and
they go out to look at the stars.
they go out to look at the stars.
If they can see the stars that mine that is good or believe to be
good lick.
good lick.
It is the time to get to ripe crops.
Maori make kit that is made of heep of things.
Fishing it is a time a time of getting fish and eat it.
To took about people from the past and remember them.
Celebrate the days.
Narrating legend- they tell legends to their children.
Pepe rama- are paper lanterns that are flow at night to celebrate
the ancestors.
the ancestors.
All tribes had there own story of grabbing the 3 baskets of knowledge. Destiny's had been taken from the Whare Wananga of Hokianga, Some of them have come from the National school of Maori weaponry there was one time when Io-Matua -Kore, the supreme god spawned the two heavenly guardians Rehua and Rautau he commanded them to go down to Earth to find out which of Papatuanuku son could climb up to Te-toi-o-nga-rangi and catch the 3 basket of knowledge. There were 3 basket one was te kete tuauri the basket of memory and prayer one te kete tuatea the basket of malevolence and darkness and the other basket was te kete the basket of Man survival. In some there was two stones one named huka tai and the other rehu tai that holds god like powers.
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