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Matariki ki te Ao Matariki Around the World
He mea tuhi e Rangi Matamua rāua ko Miriama Kamo. He mea whakamāori e Leon Blake rāua ko Pānia Papa. He mea tā ngā whakaahua e Isobel Joy Te Aho-White.
He nui te whakahirahira o Matariki ki te Māori, engari e mōhiotia ana te kāhui whetū nei i te ao whānui. Kua tū mai te kāhui hei kaiārahi i ngā iwi mai i te ōrokohanganga mai o te tangata. Huri noa i te ao, he ingoa kē ō te kāhui whetū nei, he kōrero kē ōna, he mahi kē āna, ka mutu, e ai ki ētahi iwi, he rerekē te maha o ngā whetū o te kāhui i te maha o ngā whetū ki iwi kē. Ko ētahi o ōna ingoa, ko Pleiades, ko Subaru, ko Makali’i, ko wai atu, ko wai atu. Heoi anō, ko te taura here i ēnei kōrero katoa, ko tā Matariki mātakitaki iho i a tātou katoa, ahakoa te wāhi i te ao e noho nei tātou.
The Matariki cluster (or Pleiades) is known by many different names and is seen and celebrated by many cultures around the world.This beautifully illustrated book features 21 stories, nine of which highlight the Māori Matariki stars, while the others reference the stories about this cluster from different cultures, from the Pacific Islands to Australia, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa.
About Miriama Kamo
Miriama Kamo is an award winning journalist and co-anchor of Māori current affairs programme Marae. Miriama has worked on many of TVNZ’s key news and current affairs programmes, including Sunday and 1 News. Miriama’s first children’s book with Scholastic was the popular The Stolen Stars of Matariki. Her 2022 book with Rangi Matamua and Isobel Joy Te Aho-White, Matariki Around the World, was one of the bestselling children’s books of 2022.
About Rangi Matamua
Rangi Matamua is a New Zealand indigenous studies and Māori cultural astronomy academic of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. He is the first Māori to win a Prime Minister’s Science Prize, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Rangi holds extensive knowledge about our skies, star clusters, galaxies and planets and is on a mission to disseminate star lore left to him by his tīpuna Te Kōkau and Rāwiri Te Kōkau.
About Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
Isobel (Izzy) Joy Te Aho-White (Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Kahungungu ki te Wairoa) is a freelance graphic artist and illustrator with a passion for the natural world and Te Ao Māori. She specialises in symbolism and metaphor, and her work is influenced by mythology and folk tales, botanical illustration and life experience. Izzy currently lives and works in Pōneke/Wellington.
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