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Tuesday 7 June 2016

Matariki




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Matariki is the Maori name for the star cluster known as the Pleiades. Matariki is a traditionally for Maori when it appeared just before dawn in late May or early June, it signalled the Maori New Year. For some tribes. the rising of Puanga (Rigel in Orion) signals the start of the New Year. 

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