Atua Whakahaehae

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1. (personal noun) moon on the twenty-ninth night of the lunar month for Te Whānau-ā-Apanui - not a good day for planting or fishing.

Atua Whakahaehae: Anō, he rā kore kai tēnei (WT 2013:71). / Atua Whakahaehae: Again, this is an unproductive day.

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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.

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