Dr Rangi Mātāmua
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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It's a long story.
It's a bit of a story.
So my family comes from a very small community in the middle of the Utaweta Forest.
I come from two main communities, Ruatahuna and Waikaremoana.
An ancestor of mine in the late 1800s was known in our community as an astronomical expert, Māori astronomy study.
And he wrote a manuscript, 400 pages, where he records a thousand Māori stars and a hundred or so constellations and sun and moon.
And on his deathbed in his 1930s, he gave it to my grandfather.
My grandfather had it all of these years.
And in the 1990s, I went to university and Matariki was just starting to be talked about.
I come home one day to him and I said, hey, you know anything about Matariki?
And he went to his cupboard and came back with this book.
And I've studied it since that time, never thinking that I'd get into this field.
But in 2002, he passed away and on his deathbed,
He said to me, look, that book's an heirloom, so hold onto it, but the knowledge in there, find a way to share it.
I think, you know, he thought that there would be benefits for people in sharing knowledge.
His last words to me were, knowledge that isn't shared isn't knowledge.
And I've really kept that as a mantra and just spent the rest of my life since then finding ways to share that knowledge and be part of sharing knowledge with different communities.
When you first, you know, got that book, what was your thoughts by it?
I actually opened it and saw how dense and how, you know, and I was like, yeah, do you just have a truncated version?
I'm 19, 20 years old, you know, the last thing I want to do is start reading old manuscripts.
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