Matariki The Maori New Year Palliative medicine Praise for Millie Mak the

Praise for Millie Mak the Maker:

one of the few homegrown women he hasn’t bedded

of the deep-rooted life of rural England

This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator of Narnia

and vividly written

Matariki The Maori New Year Palliative medicine Praise for Millie Mak theThis book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was greeted with great festivals. It was used as a guide to planting and harvesting, and was studied by tohunga as an omen which told whether the food gathering