The seven stars of Matariki myth

9/6/11
Stuck in the very dreadful and exhausting desert the seven shape shifters dug themselves out
of the skin burning sand and were scavenging for human flesh.

The shape shifters drove the humans towards them by tricking them with the sounds of their relatives voices.The shape shifters turned into vicious deadly animals and disturbingly slaughtered them to death.

The Sky God was so frustrated that the seven shape shifters continued to destroy the human population.The sky god thought up an evil and mysterious plan. He trapped the seven shape shifters while they were stuck in animal form in a magical black net and sent them so far away in the millenniums that today we could only see them in the shape of the seven stars known as Matariki.
There names are Waiti, Wita, Waipun a rangi, Tupu a nuku, Tupu a rangi and Uruarangia.