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Matariki – Te Tau Hou Māori Twinkling in the winter sky just before dawn, Matariki (the Pleiades) signals the Māori New Year. For Māori, the appearance of Matariki heralds a time of remembrance, joy and peace. It is a time for communities to come together and celebrate. In the 2000s, it became more common for both Māori ...

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Matariki Festival Whakanuia te tau hou Māori,11 o Hongongoi ki 22 o Hongongoi 2023. Celebrate Matariki Festival 11 July to 22 July, 2023.

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Hillary and Tenzing reach summit of Everest A beekeeper from New Zealand, Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to stand on the summit of the world’s highest peak.

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Walks are easily accessible and for everyone. The one we took today it's 1 hour each way, few steps up and down and if you're well fit can be done in 40 minutes each way. At slow pace possibly 1 hour and 30 minutes. Kōanga is here 🙂

Kia Ora all,
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Happy Matariki !

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Who is Puanga?

⭐️ Puanga is the star Rigel in Orion. Many tribes of Aotearoa observed Puanga to mark the beginning of the Māori New Year. In some Māori mythology, he was believed to be the older brother of Matariki.

In some traditions, Puanga is said to be the son of the Goddess of the underworlds and was only born as a result of the shaking of the earth by Rūaumoko the God of earthquakes. He was then pushed up into the sky by the sun.

The Ngā Puhi people saw him in the shape of a Pewa bird snare.

Ngā Puhi also perceived him in the form of a tūāhu altarpiece.

Moriori considered Puanga as the pole that held up a whata storehouse.

Tūhoe Māori believed he was the father of the Kumarahou tree.

Kahungunu Māori knew him as the father of a number of shark species.

Taranaki Māori would follow his pathway across the night sky to return to Rarotonga.

Tainui Māori revered Puanga so much that they named their children after the star.

Te Arawa Māori would instruct the spirits of their dead to fly toward his cavernous abode.

Ngāti Porou believed the cosmos to be empty without his presence in the sky.

Rangitāne Māori believed that Puanga was the exclusive pillar that propped up the sky father's sacred head.

Kāitahu Māori would wait for him to appear to officially open their Whare pūrākau.

Kōrero observed in Puanga : Star of the Māori New Year by Sam T. Rerekura.
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We do strongly recommend to learn about it. This is one of the most reliable source for NZ History. https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2577/waitangi-day #:~:text=Waitangi%20Day%20(1st%20of%202)&text=The%20anniversary%20of%20the%20signing,the%20country%20on%20Waitangi%20Day.

Biography This biography, written by Lynette Townsend and Sarah Burgess, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2020.

Buon Anno !
No Fireworks this Year here in NZ, this is from our neighborhood
Sydney Australia

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Meri Kirihimete !

Reinforcements for the 28th Maori Battalion enjoy Christmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot in Maadi Camp, Egypt.

The kai on the table includes a traditional Maori hāngī, beer, tomato sauce, fruits and what appears to be classic kiwi Pavlovas.

Photograph taken on 25 December 1943 by George Robert Bull.

Raised in 1940 as part of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), the 28th (Māori) Battalion was attached to the 2nd New Zealand Division as an extra battalion that moved between the division's three infantry brigades. The battalion fought during the Greek, North African and Italian campaigns, earning a formidable reputation as a fighting force which both Allied and German commanders have acknowledged. It became the most-decorated New Zealand battalion during the war.

Maadi Camp, 14km south of Cairo, was laid out in 1940 for the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Freyberg, a World War I Victoria Cross winner, selected the site and engineers laid seal, 10kms of water mains and 6kms of drain. Soldiers arrived by train to sleep on straw mattresses, their freezing nights disrupted by the howls of stray dogs and the clatter of fruit bats.

Conditions were far from easy. Bedbugs were insatiable. Desperate soldiers would soak bed boards in kerosene to kill the insects. Boards would be briefly burned to destroy surviving bugs.

Sand was a menace. The worst was the dust whipped up by a vicious wind known as the khamsin. In their diaries soldiers of wrote how khamsin sandstorms made the air full of grit, with the final mouthful of a cup of tea being full of sand. Dust found its way into intimate body parts, causing desert sores so painful that many young men had circumcisions.

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Beachlands to Maraetai Path

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Scoria Slab Road - Bucklands Beach
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