Today we told the story of 'The 7 Star Fishes' where seven little fishes were warned by their mother not to swim to far out as a giant by the name of 'Tataraimaka was out fishing with an enormous black net which was woven by flax and that made magic!
To distracted by play the fishes had forgotten their mothers words and swam to far out and were caught in Tataraimaka's net. The little fishes cried and cried - Tane the god of light heard their cries and felt sorry for them. He took away Tataraimaka's net and hauled it up into the sky and the seven littles fishes were then turned into bright shining stars. Six of the seven stars are named Toheta, Toheti, Tapuanuku, Tupuarangi, Ururangi and Waipuna-a-angi. But one star remains with no name. It has been left for all the children of the world. The story suggests that before you go to bed you put your name on this star, and this way you will be among friends when you are sleeping.
The Phoenix House children seemed to really enjoy this magnetic story and insisted that they were going to keep an eye out at night time for the seven bright shining stars at night time before bed :)
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