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  • Astronomy NZ – Taatai Arorangi (Māori astronomy)

    This has comprehensive information on Māori astronomy, which is important in understanding traditional knowledge of the seasons and weather.

  • Māori environmental knowledge

    The Maori Research and Development Unit (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) found that members of Ngāti Pare (Coromandel) and Te Whānau ā Apanui (Eastern Bay of Plenty) had an intimate understanding of local weather and climate. Some examples of this knowledge are listed.

More suggestions and sources

    • Best, Elsdon. The astronomical knowledge of the Maori, genuine and empirical. New ed. Christchurch: Kiwi, 2002 (originally published 1922).

    • Best, Elsdon. >Māori religion and mythology. 2 vols. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1924).

    • Orbell, Margaret. A concise encyclopedia of Māori myth and legend. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1998.

    • Reed, A. W. Reed book of Māori mythology. Revised by Ross Calman. Auckland: Reed, 2004.



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