Once long, long ago lived seven
little tui. They were playing outside and their mother said to stay near
the tree so when it was dark they wouldn't get lost.
One
day, they weren't as close to the house as they
normally were and, when the sun fell, the moon started to rise. The moon wasn't
shining as bright as the sun normally did, but it shone like the glistening
sea's edge on a great winter's night. Owls hooting filled the night then
the seven little tui showed goosebumps as they became more frightened through
the night.
It got darker and darker and colder and colder then soon all the
tui drifted off to sleep.
In the morning, they weren't in the forest anymore. All they saw
was the moon and the stars because the moon had taken them up into the sky
during their sleep. The moon used its special powers to take kids who didn't
listen to their parents and turn them into stars.
That is how Matariki came to be.
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