Matariki

The Seven Sisters

Long ago, there lived seven sisters. They had described themselves as the wāhine. They had long golden hair like shining stars.

One day, seven brothers were out hunting. They heard sounds. “Help! Help!”

The seven sisters pretended to fall out of the bush. Seven brothers were there but only six fell in love. Trytanus was the only brother that didn't fall in love. He knew that the seven wahine were trouble.  He knew they had to go, but, two days later, all his brothers were getting married and he got angry.

He knew that he had a power that his brothers didn't have. He was a shape shifting. He could turn into anything so, one day, he spied on the wahine. He saw them go in to a whare so he followed them into it but he could not go in as a human so he went in as a bird. He heard their evil plan and tried to tell his brothers but they didn't listen, then he told the brothers to look at themselves. “You were handsome and strong! Now look at you. You are weak and skinny. We need to catch the wahine and so they did and threw them in the sky.