whatukura
1. (noun) an order of male supernatural beings corresponding to the female māreikura.
Ko te rangi i noho ai te atua, ko Toi-o-ngā-rangi, arā ko Tikitiki-o-rangi. Ko ngā atua e uru atu ana ki reira ko ngā whatukura, he atua tāne. Ko tō rātou whare ko Rangiātea (TTT 1/5/1924:38). / The heaven where the atua dwells is Toi-o-ngā-rangi, that is Tikitiki-o-rangi. The atua that enter there are the the whatukura, the male atua. Their house is Rangiātea.
2. (noun) stones of knowledge in the whare wānanga.
Kei roto te whatukura a Tāne, a Tangaroa e takoto ana (JPS 1927:354). / Within were lying the sacred stones of Tāne and Tangaroa.
