I’ve created a web based version of my maramataka which is a custom calendar. These are easy to create for yourself if you are interested in mapping out your own maramataka. Although it’s a handy guide it does actually have some obvious issues like not actually being connected to the environment, so the best way to know the lunar phase is to just go outside and look at the moon, but for the sake of learning the phase patterns and saving you walk 20 or so steps to get outside at night, it’s convenient.
I’ve named this maramataka ‘Maramataka Whakapū’, as it’s a my first example of a maramataka published digitally, as opposed to on a wall chart at home or in my office scrawled over in pen.
In terms of whakapapa I have used the maramataka naming conventions published by Te Taura Whiri in 2010 in their Matariki booklet. Mapping has been aligned with the lunar phases. The baseline kōrero used against each day is a combination of rangahau based on the ‘Māori division of time’ by Elsdon Best (originally published in 1922), studies in wānanga Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s Diploma in Rongoā Māori and mātauranga shared by various mātanga. Special thanks to Meretini Bennett-Huxtable at Te Oranganui. The gardening content is Waikato based and I am using this to achieve previously unseen results in the garden.