WALT: We are learning about the myths and legends of matariki
Once upon a time there were seven brothers, the
youngest was Tui. all of the other brothers were the best
looking men in the whole village. One day they all went
hunting when they heard a beautiful sound so they
decided to follow it. They followed the bush, rivers and up
a hill. There stood the most beautiful women they had ever
seen! Tui said they were fairy women. His brothers weren't
listening and decided to take them back to the village and
make them their wifes. Time passed and through that time
the brothers always got seafood and only eat that for
breakfast, lunch and dinner. One day one of the brothers
came back from fishing and his wife was not there.
when she came back he asked her where she had been. .
Then his wife burst into flames and than she whispered
To him there plane to starve there brothers to death
their plan was to starve his brothers to death. That night
six fantails were sitting on a tree outside Tui’s hut then a
7th came out of one of the brothers huts tui creeped up to
try and listen to there plan then he gathered all of his
brothers and told them there plan most of the brothers
Were shocted one said I new that. Then they started to
form a plan to catcher there wifes and put them
Somewhere far away from anywhere. That night they got a
Huge net and when all of there came out they caught them
with the net and tui though them into the the night sky.
The hardest part about the peace of wrtiting was trying to recreate it in my own way.
do you now more about the seven sisters of matariki ?
