1. What is Matariki and what are all its other names?
star clusters or seven Sisters or Pleiades.Matariki is the Maori name for the group of stars also known as the Pleiades star cluster or The Seven Sisters; and what is referred to as the traditional Maori New Year.Waitī
Waitā
Tupu-a-nuku
Tupu-a-rangi
Waipuna-a-rangi
Ururangi
Matariki
2. How did Maori use it in more traditional times, like when they were travelling the Pacific or trying to survive in early Aotearoa hundreds of years ago before Pakeha came here? They used them as navigators.
3. What significance does it have in other cultures from history?
star clusters or seven Sisters or Pleiades.Matariki is the Maori name for the group of stars also known as the Pleiades star cluster or The Seven Sisters; and what is referred to as the traditional Maori New Year.Waitī
Waitā
Tupu-a-nuku
Tupu-a-rangi
Waipuna-a-rangi
Ururangi
Matariki
2. How did Maori use it in more traditional times, like when they were travelling the Pacific or trying to survive in early Aotearoa hundreds of years ago before Pakeha came here? They used them as navigators.
3. What significance does it have in other cultures from history?
They used it to see how and when their crops would grow.
I go this info from this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki
Pleiades has several meanings in different cultures and traditions.
I got this info from tis website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(star_cluster)
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_in_folklore_and_literature
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