Matariki

• abstract: In the Māori language Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising"... in New Zealand it was the heliacal rising of that group that marked the new year", The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Elsdon Best in late May or early June—taken as the beginning of the new year.

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