The story of Matariki Summer Learning Journey

In the middle of winter, a very special cluster of stars appear in the sky over New Zealand. This cluster is called the ‘Matariki star cluster.’ It re-appears in the sky each May/June and signals the start of the Māori New Year. Many songs and stories have been written about the cluster. One of these is called ‘The Seven Stars of Matariki.’ It was written by a New Zealander named Toni Rolleston-Cummins. She is from Maketu.

On your blog, write a short summary of the book. What was it about? Try to summaries the story in 6-8 sentences.

This story is about 8 handsome brother's. One day they went hunting, but instead of food they found seven beautiful women and the brothers immediately fell in love, except for the youngest brother, who's name was Meti. Meti's brothers took the women to there village to make them there wife's. After they were married, Meti's brothers only focused on there wives not themselves only them, they didn't even eat and as time went past there handsomeness started to fade. Meti was getting suspicious of his brothers wife's so he decided to spy on them. He followed the women and listened to there awful plan to starve his brothers to death, as soon as Meti heard there plan he rushed back to the village to tell his brothers but they didn't listen until Meti told them to look at themselves, he told them what they used to look like and what they look like when they married the women then they finally believed Meti. The brothers had to get there wife's as far away from them as possible to be safe so they had to get a magic net and threw it over them. They waited for there wife's to get home then they threw it over them and Meti flew them over to the god of the stars. Meti asked Uru (the god of the stars) to take the women as far away as possible but like Meti's brothers Uru (the god of the stars) started to fall for the women's beauty. Uru took them far far away from meti and his brothers, but every year Uru gives the women a chance to shine and that creates the seven stars (Matariki).