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Matariki; Observed by: Māori people, New Zealand: Type: Cultural: Significance: Heliacal rising of the Pleiades star cluster (Māori: Matariki), signalling the Māori new year. Celebrations: Some hold dawn ceremonies and/or lay a hāngī: Date: June to July (varies) 2024 date: 28 June: 2025 date: 20 June: Frequency: Annual: First time: June 28
Matariki is the name in the Māori language for the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. It reflects the seven founding member universities of the MNU. [4] [5] The Matariki Undergraduate Research Network (MURN) ran in 2012 and 2013 as an attempt to foster international undergraduate research.
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. [2] [3] She is a member of the Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Whakaue, and Ngāti Hauiti iwis. [3]
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It follows directly after the first sighting of Matariki (The Pleiades) and Puanga/Puaka [102] in the dawn sky, an event which marked the beginning of the New Year and was said to be when the Sun turned from his northern journey with his winter-bride Takurua and began his journey back to his summer-bride Hine Raumati.
Rangiānehu Mātāmua ONZM is a New Zealand indigenous studies and Māori cultural astronomy academic and is Professor of Mātauranga Māori at Massey University.He is the first Māori person to win a Prime Minister's Science Prize, is a fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and is the chief advisor to the New Zealand Government on the public holiday Matariki.