TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orbell,Margaret Rose
ED  - University of Canterbury
ED  - Macmillan Brown lectures
TI  - Hawaiki: a new approach to Māori tradition 
SN  - 0908812159 (paperback)
AV  - GR375 .O73 1991
U1  - 291.13089994 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Christchurch, N.Z.
PB  - Canterbury University Press
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Origin
KW  - History
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Tāngata whenua
KW  - reo
KW  - Pūrākau
N1  - "Originally published [by the University of Canterbury in 1985] as University of Canterbury Publication No. 35, this book is the revised text of the Macmillan Brown lectures for 1983"--T.p. verso; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-74); Preface -- The homeland (The actual history ; Related place-names ; Early scholars' interpretations ; Stories set in Hawaiki ; The last Hawaiki ; More recent scholarship ; The source of life ; Hawaiki's inaccessibility ; Hawaiki in the east ; Hawaiki in the west); The voyages ('They never believed it' ; Ancestors here in the beginning ; Kupe the precursor ; The ancestors' arrival ; The preparations ; The karakia ; Parallel occurrences ; Sacred landmarks ; Voyages back to Hawaiki ; The Great Fleet); The new land (Plants and animals ; Other treasures ; The tohunga ; Volcanic power ; Place-names relating to ancestors ; Tamatea and his fire ; Rivers and lakes ; South Island mountains ; The Northland hypothesis)
ER  -