Hawaiki : a new approach to Māori tradition / Margaret Orbell.
Momo rauemi: TextReo: English, Maori Reo: English, mri Kaiwhakaputa:Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 1991.Whakaahuatanga: 81 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0908812159 (paperback)
- 9780908812158 (paperback)
- 291.13089994 20
- GR375 .O73 1991
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Māoritanga | Hāwera LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Māoritanga | 398.234 (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2224155 |
"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).
In English with some Maori.
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