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The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters are group of stars known by Maori as Matariki.
The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.
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What the Maori name for the seven stars?
MATARIKI
What is the meaning for the matariki seven stars?
What is the meaning of the stars of matariki
What is matariki about?
Matariki is the Maori new year. The speak Maori and the seven stars of Matariki.
What does matariki look like?
Matariki is Maori name for the group of stars also known as the Pleiades star cluster or The Seven Sisters.
How many stars can you see on Matariki?
seven
What are the names of the seven matariki stars?
The seven Matariki stars are: Matariki, Pōhutukawa, Waitī, Waitā, Waipuna-ā-rangi, Tupu-ā-rangi, and Ururangi. These stars are significant to the Māori people of New Zealand, marking the start of the Māori New Year.
What is the other name for matariki?
The other name for Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster. Matariki is also known as the Seven Sisters.
How and why is matariki created?
matariki is known as the seven stars of matariki. it started of with the seven sisters who were stuck between their two parents. papa the mother and rangi the father. the seven sisters tried pushing their parents apart, and in the end they did. pushing rangi far into the skies. but matariki was so sad that he cried lightning. and the lightning became the seven stars on matariki.
Can Matariki turn into shooting stars?
Matariki is the name of the Seven Sisters star cluster also known as Pleiades star cluster. The name Matariki is from the Maori language. A shooting star or falling star is not a star at all. It is a fragment of meteoroids that fall into the Earth's atmosphere.
What does matariki mean in English?
Matarika means the seven gods of the stars
What picture are the matariki stars meant to form?
The Matariki is the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster.There are two possible explanations of Matariki (mata-riki meaning small eyes or mata-ariki meaning the eyes of God).
What are the names of the seven stars of the Maori new year?
Matariki is the name given to the seven stars that herald the Maori new year and are known in English as the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. In some traditions Matariki refers to the 'mother' star with the others named: Tupua Nuku, Tupua Rangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipuna A Rangi, and Ururangi.
