The seven sisters was about eight boys (counting Mitai) In the story Mitai and his brothers found girls, they all had shining gold hair., they all fell in love except Mitai. The brothers took the sisters back to the village to make them their wives. They stop caring about themselves and started caring about their wife's. All the wives disappeared so Mitai found out that he had to watch to find out where they went. Mitai saw 6 birds sitting in a tree then another one flew out of the house to join them, Mitai followed them. Mitai heard that they wanted to starve Mitai's brothers, Mitai told his brothers they didn't care. then Mitai said,
"You guys use to be Strong and handsome now you so skinny"
the brothers bevelled him. they decided to catch them in nets, and put them far from earth. each of the brothers caught their wives and gave them to Mitai, Mitai flew into the sky as an albatross and gave them to Uru-te-ngangara and Uru-te-ngangara took them to put them far far away. To this day you can see the seven sisters once a year in the sky.
Kia Ora Samantha,
ReplyDeleteWell done for finishing this Summer Learning Journey activity, 'The Seven Sisters' and for retelling the story to your readers. I particularly like how you've added a quote in there from the story itself, to support your retelling.
Your retelling is excellent and so precise, you've really done a marvellous job on this activity. Can you please tell me what you mean when you say that "the brothers bevelled him [Mitai]"?
Did you know that in Māori mythology, there also includes a version of how the stars of Matariki were put up in to the sky? They were put on the breast of Ranginui (the Sky Father) from one of his sons, and an atua (god), Tāne Mahuta.
I look forward to reading more of your work :)
Cheers,
Jordan