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In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. Historically, Matariki was usually celebrated for a period of days during the last quarter of the moon of the lunar month Pipiri (around June).
In Māori culture, Matariki is the name of the Pleiades star cluster, ... This page was last edited on 11 May 2014, at 03:02 (UTC).
The Moon's phases are used to define the main subdivision of the year (maramataka). The timing of the New Year varied regionally across New Zealand, but was often based around the Pleiades star cluster (Matariki). Some iwi, for example, used the first new moon after the appearance of Matariki as the start of the new year. [19]
Matariki Williams is a Māori curator and writer based in Whakatāne, New Zealand. [1] In 2021, she was appointed Pou Matua Mātauranga Māori, Senior Historian, Mātauranga Māori at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in Wellington .
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While it is their responsibility to provide evidence to support their edits rather than mine, it took only a minute of searching to find a couple of references: Te Ara says "Matariki, or Māori New Year celebrations were once popular, but stopped in the 1940s."; and Te Ao Hou, 1 December 1967 says "The fact that the appearance of the Pleiades ...