Maori

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In Maori we are searching of the Maori, The Maori has a seven stars the names of the star are Ururangi, Waipunarangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Tupu-a-nuku, Waita,Wiati, and Matariki. That's the names of the seven star. do you know the Māori New Year has always been celebrated with the rise of the star cluster Matariki. It marks the beginning of the Aotearoa/Pacific New Year according to the lunar calendar.

There are myth of Matariki, the Legends. Matariki literally means the 'eyes of god' (mata ariki) or 'little eyes' (mata riki). Some say that when Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother were separated by their offspring, the god of the winds, Tāwhirimātea, became angry, tearing out his eyes and hurling them into the heavens. That's the Legends. The one who Matariki is the Māori 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 referred to as the Seven Sisters.