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Showing posts with label Maori. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Maori

Hi,
In Maori this is what I have done and I wrote about the whale rider that we have done here it is.

I thought that the whale rider would be like a person riding a whale and saving some person that is drowning. But it was different from what I thought it was like a culture from the early age that has been passed down to the generation today The little girl in the story has been chosen to be a leader but she just did not turn out to be leader easily. She dove under the water and got the whale's tooth that had been thrown under the water by his grandfather. Then she heard her grandfather trying to speak to the ancestor and their ancestor couldn’t hear her grandfather so she tried speaking to the ancestor and it worked. But it was a disaster the whales were running out of breath because they were on the shore of the beach. Then her grandfather called the whales and called the other people to help him move the whales back to the beach water but they couldn’t push back the whales because they were too tired to move. When her grandfather saw the whale leader they tried pushing the whale with all the other people. Then the little girl rode the whale and it moved by itself back to the little girl but the little girl drowned.

Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Maori

Hi,
In Maori we have to research about the Matariki stars. What I did is go on google and search to find information here is what I have done.

The Matariki stars begins to show up in late March or early June that is when the stars start to show up on the night sky. The names of Matariki stars are

    Matariki: about the Māori New Year and how to celebrate it in 2019 ...
  • Alcyone the matariki eyes of Tawhirimatea
  • Atlas Tupu-a-rangi, sky tohunga
  • Electra Waipuna a rangi sky spring
  • Taygeta waiti sweat water
  • Pleione Tupu a nuku Earth tuhunga
  • Merope Ururangi entry heavens 
  • Mai Waita Sprinkle of water


So that is the 7 names of the Matariki. Maori people also use matariki to predict the weather they used the stars from a long long time ago. Matariki is a celebration that is about spending time with your family and Matariki is also a agricultural.

Moari also plants something before the Matariki and when the Matariki shows up it is there time to harvest the plant that they have planted. The Matariki stars are really important because it is the time to restart the maori calendar.