Waipunarangi

Te ua · water in the sky

Kōrero

Connected to the rain — the name means ‘water that pools in the sky’. The pooling of water on the ground caused by the heavy and persistent showers of winter is referred to as Matariki tāpuapua.

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Kaikōrero · listen to the recording of the karakia (Mātāmua narration)

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Pleiades wide-field · NASA / ESA / AURA / Caltech / Palomar Observatory.