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Often referred to as the Māori lunar new year, the festival of Matariki marks the mid-winter rising period of its namesake constellation – commonly known as the Pleiades – and signifies a time of beginnings and endings, coming together, remembrance of the dead, and traditionally, the planning of crops and planting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/14/indigenous-renaissance-maori-hope-matariki-holiday-will-help-cement-status-of-local-knowledge
Often referred to as the Māori lunar new year, the festival of Matariki marks the mid-winter rising period of its namesake constellation – commonly known as the Pleiades – and signifies a time of beginnings and endings, coming together, remembrance of the dead, and traditionally, the planning of crops and planting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/14/indigenous-renaissance-maori-hope-matariki-holiday-will-help-cement-status-of-local-knowledge