Hoata
1. (personal noun) moon on the third night of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the eighteenth night of the lunar month - a good day for eeling, planting crops and crafishing.
Mō Hoata, ko te kōrero, 'pērā mō Tirea' (WT 2013:47). / For Hoata the statement is 'the same as for Tirea'.
2. (noun) moon eighteen nights after the full moon.
Ko te Hoata anō hoki tētahi wāhi o te whitinga mai me te aranga ake o ēnei māramatanga o te ata pō (WT 2013:49). / Hoata was also a part of the shining and rise of these lights before dawn.
Okoro
1. (personal noun) moon on the fifth night of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the twentieth night of the lunar month - a good day for planting and fishing.
Synonyms: aokatoa
2. (noun) moon on the twentieth night after the full moon.
Mō te Okoro, ko taua kōrero poto anō, 'pērā mō Ōuenuku' (WT 2013:47). / For Okoro it's that same short statement, 'as for Ōuenuku'.
Ōhua
1. (personal noun) moon on the 14th (or 12th, 13th or 15th) night of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the twenty-ninth night of the lunar month - a good day for planting crops.
Kia mahara, kai waenganui te Mawharu i a Huna rāua ko Ōhua e noho ana (WT 2013:70). / Note that Mawharu sits between Huna and Ōhua.
2. (noun) moon on the twenty-eighth night after the full moon.
I te ata o te Ōhua, kia hikina ake ngā tāruke o te Mawharu ki roto i te poti, kikī ana a roto, a waho i te kōura (WT 2013:68). / On the morning of Ōhua, when the crayfish traps of Mawharu (the previous night) are pulled up into the boat, they were absolutely full of crayfish both inside and out.
Ōuenuku
1. (personal noun) moon on the fourth night of the lunar month - sometimes called Ōue. For some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the nineteenth night of the lunar month - a good day for laying down seedling beds, planting and fishing.
He pai hoki a Ōuenuku me Okoro mō te mahi tuna (Te Ara 2016). / Ōuenuku and Ōkoro were also good nights for eeling.
2. (noun) moon on the nineteenth night after the full moon.
Ka tīmata te whakaotioti haere o ngā whakaahua ata pō i te Ōuenuku nei (WT 2013:49). / The completion of the pre dawn images began with Ōuenuku.
3. (noun) rainbow.
Synonyms: kahukura, Uenuku, Tūāwhiorangi, āniwaniwa, kōpere, tāwhana, tāwhanawhana, āheahea, atuapiko
2. (noun) moon on the fourth night after the full moon.
I kite au i ētahi o ōku pakeke ohooho, koi ngā hinengaro, e rumaki kai ana i te pō o te Oike ki te whakamātau mehemea ka mau tonu te mana o te Takirau i kō atu i a ia anō, kāre rānei (WT 2013:26). / I have seen some of my energetic and enquiring old people planting on the night of Oike to test if the Takirau night effect persisted beyond itself or not (WT 2013:26).
Rākaunui
1. (modifier) full moon.
Kei ngā pō atarau, kei ngā pō rākaunui o te marama, e kitea atu ana a Rona, me tana tahā, me te rākau ngaio e tū ana i tana taha (TWK 2:13). / On moonlit nights, on nights when the moon is full, Rona can be seen with her calabash and the ngaio tree standing at her side.
2. (personal noun) full moon on the fifteenth night (sometimes the seventeenth or eighteenth night) - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this night marks the start of the month. A good day for fishing and planting.
Ko Rākaunui te rā ka taka mai i muri i te pō o te raununui o te marama (Wh3 2003:106). / Rākaunui is the day after the night of the full moon.
Synonyms: Takirau
3. (noun) full moon.
Kia pā te rā ki te pae, kia whakatātare mai te marama i runga i ngā pae maunga, kia kī mai te tai i te ahiahi, koia nā te marama tūturu. Koia nā te Rākaunui (WT 2013:17). / When the sun touches the horizon in the evening; when the moon peers over the hills and the tide is at its fullest, that is the fullest of the full moons. That is Rākaunui (WT 2013:17).
Tangaroa
1. (personal name) atua of the sea and fish, he was one of the offspring of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku and fled to the sea when his parents were separated. Sometimes known as Tangaroa-whaiariki.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 40-42;)
Ko te māoritanga o ngā ingoa o ēnei tamariki a Rangi rāua ko Papa: Ko Tangaroa, he ika; ko Rongo-mā-tāne, ko te kūmara; ko Haumia-tiketike, ko te aruhe; ko Tāne-mahuta, ko te rākau, ko te manu; ko Tāwhiri-mātea, ko te hau; ko Tū-mata-uenga, ko te tangata (KO 16/9/1886:6). / The explanation of the names of these children of Rangi and Papa is: Tangaroa is fish; Rongo-mā-tāne is kūmara; Haumia-tiketike is fernroot; Tāne-mahuta is trees and birds; Tāwhiri-mātea is wind; Tū-mata-uenga is humans.
See also atua
2. (noun) general name for the seven nights of the lunar month from the eighth to the fourteenth nights after the full moon - these are generally good days for planting fishing and eeling.
Ko te kōrero whakamutunga anō mō te tino āhua o ngā Tangaroa nei, tae noa ki te Ōmutu, ko tēnei te wā mōmona o te maramataka, e whitu rā te roa (WT 2013:32). / The final statement about the real nature of these Tangaroa nights, right until Ōmutu (the fourteenth night after the full moon), is that this is the productive time of the lunar calendar, and it is seven days long.
Whiro
1. (personal name) atua of things associated with evil, darkness and death and a son of Rangi-nui and Papa-tū-ā-nuku. Whiro-te-tipua is the full name.
Te Pae-rangi: Ko te pakanga nui tēnei a nga tamariki a Rangi rāua ko Papa, arā a ngā atua Māori, ki a rātau anō; nā Whiro-te-tipua i whakatipu. Nā ka hinga a Whiro rātau ko tana ope; ko te take tēnā i heke ai a Whiro ki Rarohenga, ki te Muriwai-hou, arā ki Te Rēinga (M 2006:14). / Te Pae-rangi: This was the great battle of the children of Rangi and Papa, that is of the Māori atua, amongst themselves; it was Whiro-te-tipua who instigated it. Whiro and his forces were defeated; and that was the reason that Whiro fled to Rarohenga, to Muriwai-hou, that is to Te Rēinga.
See also atua
2. (personal noun) moon on the first night of the lunar month - for some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the sixteenth night of the lunar month - unsuitable day for planting and fishing, but good for eeling.
Whiro: Ka kōhiti te marama, he rā kino (TTT 1/7/1923:16). / New moon: The moon rises and its a bad day.
2. (noun) moon thirty days after the full moon.
Kua wātea atu ngā mahi tumatuma, tūātea a ngā kaitiaki o te maramataka mai i Ariroa ki te Atua Whakahaehae (WT 2013:71). / The quarrelsome and blustery activities of the sentinels of the maramataka from Ariroa to Atua Whakahaehae have finished.
Matariki
1. (personal noun) Pleiades, Messier 45 - an open cluster of many stars in Te Kāhui o Matariki, with at least nine stars visible to the naked eye. The brightest star in the centre of the cluster, also known as Matariki (Alcyone), married Rehua (Antares) and is the mother of the other eight stars of the Pleiades known to Māori. The other eight stars are: Tupuārangi (Atlas), Waipunarangi (Electra), Waitī (Maia), Ururangi (Merope), Tupuānuku (Pleione), Waitā (Taygeta), Pōhutukawa (Sterope) and Hiwa-i-te-rangi (Calaeno). The first appearance before sunrise of Matariki in the north-eastern sky, in the Tangaroa phase of the lunar month, indicates the beginning of the Māori year - about mid-June - and is the cause for celebrations. Matariki disappears at the end of the Māori year and traditionally this was also a reason for celebration with some iwi. During this time when Matariki was absent from the sky, she was said to visit four places, each for seven nights, Maukahau, Tārarau-ātea, Papa-whakatangitangi and Tītore-māhu-tū. Matariki is a truncated version of the name Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea (the eyes of the atua Tāwhirimātea). Matariki is associated with good health and wellbeing.
Ko te putanga mai o Matariki te tohu mō te marama tuatahi, ko ngā ingoa hoki ēnei o ngā marama katoa: Te Tahi o Pipiri, Te Rua o Takurua,Te Toru Here o Pipiri, Te Whā o Mahuru, Te Rima o Kōpū, Te Ono o Whitiānaunau, Te Whitu o Hakihea, Te Waru o Rehua, Te Iwa o Rūhi-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru o Poutū-te-rangi, Te Ngahuru mā tahi, Te Ngahuru ma rua (TP 1/3/1901:6). / The appearance of Pleiades is the sign for the first month and these are the names of all the months: The first is Pipiri, the second is Takurua, the third is Here o Pipiri, the fourth is Mahuru, the fifth is Kōpū, the sixth is Whiti-ānaunau, the seventh is Hakihea, the eighth is Rehua, the ninth is Rūhi-te-rangi, the tenth is Poutūterangi, the eleventh and twelth months.
Mō te marama o Mei, arā o Te Hakiharatua ki tā te Māori, o te tau 1922: Ko Matariki te whetū kei te ārahi i tēnei marama, he wehenga tau ki tā te Māori whakahaere (TTT 1/5/1922:13). / For the month of May, that is Te Hakiharatua according to the Māori, of the year 1922: The Pleiades is the star that heralds this month and divides the year according to the Māori system.
See also Huihui-o-Matariki, Te, Tupuārangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī, Ururangi, Tupuānuku, Waitā, Tātai-o-Matariki
Synonyms: Huihui-o-Matariki, Te, Tātai-o-Matariki
