Matariki,即毛利新年,每年都会在新西兰的奥特阿罗亚庆祝,在隆冬时节,Matariki 星团会升起。这标志着一年中的时间让我们所有人记住那些在我们之前离开的亲人。它通向 te waka o Tamarereti,过去一年中死去的人们聚集在那里,开始他们的旅程,前往那些生活在他们之前的人们,称为 te kahui o nga kahurangi。
Ko te poi a Matariki, e pīkau nei i ngā kōrero mō te kaumātua rongonui rā o te Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, mō te taniwha hikuroa, mō Te Kani te Ua. Ka mutu, ko te tokotoko ki te rangi, ko ngā waewae ki a Tuānuku, tutū puehu ai. Tīpatapata! Whakawhetā! Rangatira...
Once in Taranaki they intermarried with the descendants of the Tokomaru waka, establishing them as part of tangata whenua of Taranaki and even more so through the marriage of Parenui-o-Te-Rangi to Maramata-Hae-Hoe of Te Kahui Tu (Marsh 2010: 32) around 1375. Ultimately the iwi adopted ...