Sydney (Australia), June 24 (EFE) .- New Zealanders commemorate their first Indigenous national holiday by celebrating the Maori New Year (Matariki) this Friday, which recognizes the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of this seaside country.
“Today we are taking another significant step in understanding. This is something that will transform us into a unique nation and unite us as a nation,” the New Zealand Prime Minister (named Aotearoa, Maori) said in a statement. This morning at the traditional festival that goes from one year to another.
The Maori New Year varies according to the appearance of the constellation Pilate (Matariki), which marks the beginning of the lunar calendar of these indigenous peoples – serving tribal communities to commemorate the dead, celebrate life, and honor ancestors. Plan for the coming year.
The Maori, who currently represent 17 percent of New Zealand’s nearly 5 million people, are known as the Pleiades Modrici, meaning “eyes of God” or “little eyes”, which are the seven and nine stars for some tribal communities in the country.
According to Maori mythology, the origin of the mataraki, which can be seen almost year-round in New Zealand, is invisible for about four weeks in the winter until it reappears at the end of June. , And the mother of the earth, Papaduanuku, was separated from her children.
One of its descendants, Tawhrimadia, the god of the wind, plucked out his parents’ eyes, threw them into the sky and formed a constellation, the name given to New Zealand by the original, according to the version of the myth in Atorova. The people of this sea country.
Pleiades is a star of great importance to many cultures, including Latin American tribes, Greece and the East, as well as being mentioned in the Bible or in other books on Don Quixote.
The celebration coincides with the ancient Polynesian lunar calendar used by the Maori when they first arrived in Ayodhya, New Zealand, about 1,000 years ago, about 1,000 years ago, in 1840, by the British settlers who signed the Treaty of Vytangi. Their land rights.
The model will be remembered as a national holiday for the next three decades, following a decision by the Ordnance Government last year to fulfill an election promise to honor “De Avo Maori” (Maori World) in New Zealand. Are incorporated into official ceremonies. EFE
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