Dr Rangi Mātāmua
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316 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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That's right.
And I mean, like...
One of the things I want to say, you know, of all I've talked about some pretty grandiose kind of things that I've been lucky enough to be involved in.
I always tell the story about the moment for me where I felt it had purpose and meaning, you know, and it wasn't a big event.
I remember when I started lecturing and talking about and wrote the book about Matariki and
There's this wonderful part of the ceremony where we get a moment to farewell our dead of the year because grieving and the process of the way you express your grief is really important culturally and just for individuals, you know, being able to, in a safe and meaningful place and way, express your grief because we all lose people.
And if we don't deal with that often, it can carry on and be difficult for us.
And so our ancestors would wait for the rise of Matariki.
And you'll see that tomorrow as part of the ceremony.
And there's a part of the ceremony where they look to the star and they call out the names of the people they've lost and they weep.
They hug each other and they, you know, talk to each other about the memories of those people and they let them go, you know, and knowing that they'll always be above them as a star.
And so I travelled to Aussie.
I travelled to Australia talking.
It was part of the book launch.
And there was this young girl that turned up.
And I'll never forget this.
It's probably the most pivotal moment...
I think, of the whole journey for me.
Just this young girl and she waited after I'd spoken about Matariki.
I was signing books with her mum and she came up to me and she said, oh, I've got a question.
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