The books below offer extended learning around the subjects of Maori starlore, astronomy and more: Tatai Arorangi: Maori Astronomy Work of the Gods, by Kay Leather and Richard Hall The Zodiac: Myths and Legends of the Stars by Richard Hall How to Gaze at the Southern...
Tuhoe Pipiri All things of the earth are contracted, owing to the cold, as also man.Te Tahi o Pipiri (the first of Pipiri)Matahi o te tau (first of the season) At the beginning of the Maori New Year the Milky Way lies along the horizon. Kia marama koe kit e kete a...
Second lunar month is Maruroa, the time when the sun halts in its course northward along the horizon, and turns. Each day it rises a little further southward and each day the nights get a little shorter and the days a little longer. In the southern sky, Autahi...
The third month is Otoru, sometimes termed Upokopapa, Torou-kai-tangata and tahu-tahu-ahi (to denote the kindling of many fires), these names are connected with cold and frost. To the Tuhoe people, the third month is Hereturi-koka. It is a time when the scorching...
To the Tuhoe people, the name of the fourth month is Mahuru. In this month the earth has become warmed, as also plants and trees are responding to the increased warmth. In the north of Aotearoa, Matariki Whakaahu (Castor and Pollux) were stars that were used to...
The fifth lunar month – Whiringa-nuku In the fifth lunar month the earth has become quite warm. The crop work is in hand and so right on to the seventh month. By late spring, as the ground warms, the forest trees are decorated with blossom. The people are tormented by...
