Tamatea-kai-ariki
1. (personal noun) moon on the sixth night of the lunar month - sometimes as Tamatea Kai-ariki. For some tribes (e.g. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) this is the twenty-third night of the lunar month.
Koia nei a Tamatea Kai-ariki, he atua nō ngā wā o te ao kōhatu i kōrerotia rā e ētahi o ngā pakeke o te iwi (WT 2013:55). / This is Tamatea Kai-ariki, an atua from the stone-age world spoken of by some of the elders of the tribe.
2. (noun) moon on the twenty-third night after the full moon.
Ko te Tamatea Kai-ariki nei rāua ko te Tamatea Tuhāhā ngā pō kino katoa o ēnei pō e whā (WT 2013:60). / Tamatea Kai-ariki and Tamatea Tuhāhā are the worst nights of these four nights.
