Tamatea
Tamatea is the Māori term for the lunar phase equivalent to the European "first quarter". In the traditional calendar the 21st to 24th nights after the full Moon are known as: Tamatea-āio, Tamatea-angana, Tamatea-kai-ariki, Tamatea Tuhāhā or Tamatea Whakapau.[1]
The term may also refer to:
People
- Tamatea Arikinui, legendary Māori explorer and captain of the Tākitimu canoe
- Tamatea Urehaea, legendary Māori explorer, grandson of Tamatea Arikinui
Places and institutions
- Tamatea, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
- Tamatea / Dusky Sound, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
- Tamatea (meeting house), Ōtākou Marae, Ōtākou, Dunedind, New Zealand
- Tamatea (whare), Motuti Marae, Kohukohu, Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand
- Tamatea ki te Huatahi meeting house of Te Rua Kopiha Marae, Mōtītī Island, New Zealand
- Tamatea Pokai Whenua meeting house of Pouākani Marae, Mangakino, North Island, New Zealand
- Tamatea Pokaiwhenua meeting house of Huria Marae, Judea, New Zealand
- Tamatea, a geographical and administrative division of Ngāti Kahungunu, North Island, New Zealand
- Tamatea High School, Napier, New Zealand