1. (personal name) Orion's Belt - a line of three bright stars in the eastern sky in early morning.
Kei te whakaata mai a Puanga-rua i roto i te Kāhui o Tautoru mō te marangai kei a Haki-haratua, arā, kei a Mei (TTT 1/3/1930:2007). / Rigel appears in the constellation of Orion's Belt for the rain in the lunar month of Haki-haratua, that is, May.
See also Tuke o Tautoru, Te
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