Source citation ledger
Matariki: The Star of the Year
Rangi Matamua
book · 2017
Rangi Matamua, Matariki: The Star of the Year.
Matariki: The Star of the Year
These are separate Atlas meetings that cite this source. Citation is not proof.
Māori tradition · Aotearoa
Matariki is the Māori name and year-mark of the Pleiades cluster. Same lights, a different calendar and gathering.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
represents · sourced · documented
Matariki marks the Māori year. Rangi Matamua describes the cluster as a seasonal and social marker in Aotearoa.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
used in · sourced · documented
Matariki belongs to Māori tradition.
Matariki is Māori knowledge of those stars. It is not a generic Indigenous Pleiades.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
belongs to · sourced · documented
The year-mark is observed in Aotearoa. Geography matters; the cluster is also visible elsewhere under other names.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
appears in · sourced · documented
Māori tradition appears in Aotearoa.
Māori tradition is of Aotearoa. Matariki is one knowledge of that place.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
appears in · sourced · documented
Matariki is observed with gathering and year-rites. Matamua describes a living knowledge, not a reconstructed paganism.
from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
used in · sourced · documented
Pleiades is associated with Calendar.
Several cultures have used the cluster’s heliacal rising or visibility as a year-mark. Each calendar is local.
from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier; Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
associated with · sourced · culturally specific
Pleiades is associated with Star.
The cluster is stars. Names and jobs remain local.
from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier; Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017
associated with · sourced · documented