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Arawa (canoe)
''Arawa'' was one of the great Māori migration canoes, ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori mythology, Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori people, Māori iwi and hapū based in the Rotorua Lakes, Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas trace their ancestry from the people of this canoe. Background Te Arawa's ancestors on board the ''Arawa'' were of the Ngāti Ohomairangi of Raiatea, Ra'iātea Island. Following a battle that broke out between them and Uenuku, in which their own Whakatūria fell in battle, Tama-te-kapua promised to captain the voyage to the islands of New Zealand, which had been discovered by Ngahue, Ngāhue of the ''Tāwhirirangi'' canoe. Construction of the canoe A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the Waka (canoe), waka which came to be known as ''Arawa''. "Hauhau-te-rangi" and "Tūtauru" (made from New Zealand Pounamu, greenstone broug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tama-te-kapua
In Māori mythology, Māori tradition of New Zealand, Tama-te-kapua, also spelt Tamatekapua and Tama-te-Kapua and also known as Tama, was the captain of the ''Arawa (canoe), Arawa'' canoe which came to New Zealand from Polynesia in about 1350. A trickster, his theft of fruit from the orchard of the chieftain Uenuku escalated into a feud which forced him to leave the ancestral homeland of Hawaiki. On departure, he kidnapped Whakaotirangi, the wife of Ruaeo, and the priest Ngātoro-i-rangi. During the journey he was discovered sleeping with the wife of Ngātoro-i-rangi, who almost destroyed the canoe in revenge. When he arrived in New Zealand, he tricked the crew of the ''Tainui (canoe), Tainui'' into believing that he had arrived before them. He staked claims to Mount Moehau in the Coromandel Peninsula and to Maketu in the central Bay of Plenty, where he settled. Shortly after this, he was defeated by the vengeful Ruaeo and feuded with his son Kahumatamomoe, departing to Moehau, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngahue
According to Maori mythology, Māori mythology Ngahue (sometimes known as Ngake) was a contemporary of Kupe and one of the first Polynesians, Polynesian explorers to reach New Zealand. He was a native of the Hawaiki and voyaged to New Zealand in “Tāwhirirangi”, his waka (canoe), waka (canoe). No time has been fixed for these voyages, but according to legend he discovered pounamu (Greenstone) and Ngahue killed a Moa (large flightless bird - now extinct). Pounamu was sometimes called Te Ika-o-Ngāhue (Ngāhue's fish) and they took several boulders back to Hawaiki. Ngai Tahu tradition Ngati Kahungunu tradition According to a Ngāti Kahungunu tradition, Ngahue was a major chief on Hawaiki at the time when the first Māori travelled to New Zealand. In his old age, he remained in Hawaiki, but his sons and grandsons had gone to the new land. Worried that they might not have enough food, Ngahue ordered a large fish to swim to his children, so that they could eat it. The fish reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitaha (Bay Of Plenty Iwi)
Waitaha is a Māori iwi of New Zealand. The tribe lives in the Bay of Plenty region and descends from the Arawa waka. History Origin The tribe's ancestor and namesake was Waitaha. He was a son of Hei who was the uncle of Tamatekapua. Their tribe was Ngāti Ohomairangi of Ra'iātea Island. After engaging in war with Uenuku, over 30 members of the tribe migrated to New Zealand on board the '' Ngā rākau rua a Atuamatua'', named in honour of Waitaha and Tamatekapua's grandfather. They encountered the sea creature named Te Parata that was summoned by the people on the ''Tainui''. They were saved from it by a great mythical shark, and in its honour renamed their canoe and themselves to ''Te Arawa''. Upon arriving to the North Island, they explored the coast from Cape Runaway to the Hauraki Gulf. The priest Ngātoro-i-rangi, Ngātoroirangi performed rituals to conceal the tribe's atua and guardians in the landscape, brought to the new island from the old marae at Taputapu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Īhenga
Īhenga was an early Māori people, Māori explorer and rangatira of Te Arawa. After burying his father at Moehau, he travelled to Maketu to be purified by his uncle Kahumatamomoe, whose daughter he married. He explored the North Island and named many places, including Lake Rotoiti (Bay of Plenty), Lakes Rotoiti and Lake Rotorua, Rotorua. He tricked the existing residents out of their land and settled at Ngonogtaha. Later, he and Kahumamatamomoe travelled to Kaipara Harbour, Kaipara together. He might have lived in the early fifteenth century. Life Īhenga was the youngest son of Tuhoromatakakā and Uenuku-whakarorongarangi. He had three elder brothers: Taramainuku, who ultimately settled at Kaipara Harbour, Kaipara, Warenga, who settled at Kawakawa, New Zealand, Kawakawa in the Bay of Islands, and Huarere, who remained at Moehau. Through his father, he was a grandson of Tama-te-kapua, the captain of the ''Arawa (canoe), Arawa'' canoe, which brought Te Arawa from Hawaiki to New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahumatamomoe
Kahumatamomoe (Kahu for short) was a Māori rangatira (chief) in the Te Arawa confederation of tribes. He undertook several exploratory journeys around the upper North Island of New Zealand on his own and with his nephew Īhenga. Lake Rotorua's full name is Te Rotoruanui-a-Kahumatamomoe and was named by Īhenga to honour his uncle. Kahumatamomoe himself is said to have named various locales, including Horohoro, Kaipara and Waitematā Harbours. He might have lived in the late fourteenth century. Life Kahumatamomoe was born in Hawaiki as the eldest son of Tama-te-kapua. He had an older brother, Tuhoromatakakā. Both sons accompanied their father when he captained the '' Arawa'' canoe on its journey to New Zealand and settled with him at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty. Journey to Titiraupenga Kahumatamomoe set out on an exploratory journey with Ika, one of the men from the ''Arawa''. They went first to Lake Rotorua and visited Ika's son Marupunganui, who had settled between Kawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand. The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua ( Tarawera River) at Matatā across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupō. Tūwharetoa is the sixth largest iwi in New Zealand, with a population of 35,877 of the 2013 New Zealand census, and 40% of its people under the age of 15. The tribe consists of a number of ''hapū'' (subtribes) represented by 33 ''marae'' (meeting places). The collective is bound together by the legacy of Ngātoro-i-rangi as epitomised in the ariki (paramount chief), currently Sir Tumu te Heuheu Tūkino VIII. In the 2013 New Zealand census 35,877 people identified as Ngāti Tūwharetoa. By the 2018 New Zealand census, there were at least 47,103 people identifying with the iwi, including 44,448 identifying with the Taupō branch, and 2,655 identifying with the Kawerau branch. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tohunga
In the culture of the Māori people, Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert priests, healers, navigators, carvers, builders, teachers and advisors. A tohunga may have also been the head of a whānau (family) but quite often was also a rangatira (chief) and an ariki (noble).Mead, S. M. (1997). ''Landmarks, bridges and visions: Essays''. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press. (p. 197). The equivalent and cognate in Hawaiian culture is ''kahuna'', tahu'a in Tahitian. Callings and practices There are many classes of tohunga (Best 1924:166) including: *Tohunga ahurewa: highest class of priest *Tohunga matakite: foretellers of the future *Whakairo, Tohunga whakairo: expert carvers *Māori traditional textiles, Tohunga raranga: expert weavers *Tohunga tātai arorangi: experts at reading the stars *Tohunga kōkōrangi: expert in the study of ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catamaran
A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is required. Catamarans typically have less hull volume, smaller Displacement (ship), displacement, and shallower draft (hull), draft (draught) than monohulls of comparable length. The two hulls combined also often have a smaller hydrodynamic drag (physics), resistance than comparable monohulls, requiring less propulsive power from either sails or motors. The catamaran's wider stance on the water can reduce both Heeling (sailing)#Heeling, heeling and wave-induced motion, as compared with a monohull, and can give reduced wakes. Catamarans were invented by the Austronesian peoples, and enabled their expansion to the islands of the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Catamarans range in size from small sailing or rowing vessels to large naval s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tainui
Tainui is a tribal waka (canoe), waka confederation of New Zealand Māori people, Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North Island of New Zealand: Hauraki Māori, Hauraki, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato (iwi), Waikato. There are other Tainui iwi whose tribal areas lay outside the traditional Tainui boundaries – Ngāi Tai in the Auckland area, Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga and Ngāti Toa in the Horowhenua, Kāpiti Coast, Kāpiti region, and Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Koata in the northern South Island. History Early history The Tainui iwi share a common ancestry from Polynesians, Polynesian migrants who arrived in New Zealand on the Tainui (canoe), ''Tainui'' waka, which voyaged across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaiki to Aotearoa (North Island) approximately 800 years ago. According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, a Tainui historian, Tainui first entered the Waikato around the year 1400 bringing with them Sweet potato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karakia
Karakia are Māori incantations and prayer used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection.Karakia , Otago University website. Retrieved 23 July 2019. They are also considered a formal greeting when beginning a . According to Māori legend, there was a curse on the Waiapu River which was lifted when George Gage (Hori Keeti) performed karakia. In |
Pounamu
Pounamu is a term for several types of hard and durable stone found in the South Island of New Zealand. They are highly valued in New Zealand, and carvings made from pounamu play an important role in Māori culture. Name The Māori word is derived from ''namu'', an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ''ninamu''. , also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as , , , and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of serpentine, known as . The collective term pounamu is preferred, as the other names in common use are misleading, such as New Zealand jade (not all pounamu is jade) and greenstone (a generic term used for unrelated stone from many countries). Pounamu is only found in New Zealand, whereas much of the carved "greenstone" sold in souvenir shops is jade sourced overseas. The Māori classification of pouna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
