• In Polynesian mythology, Hawaiki (also rendered as ʻAvaiki in Cook Islands Māori, Savaiʻi in Samoan, Havaiʻi in Tahitian, Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian) is the...
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  • to him. In Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tahu stories, Uenuku was the Ariki of Hawaiki with 71 sons, all from different wives. In traditions from further north...
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    people. Kupe was born in the geographically uncertain Māori homeland of Hawaiki, to a father from Rarotonga and a mother from Raiatea, between 40 and 23...
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    Cognates of Hawaiʻi are found in other Polynesian languages, including Māori (Hawaiki), Rarotongan (ʻAvaiki) and Samoan (Savaiʻi). According to linguists Pukui...
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    Zealand and later, around 1350, one great fleet of settlers set out from Hawaiki in eastern Polynesia. However, from the late 20th century, this story has...
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    Paikea is a notable ancestor who originated in Hawaiki according to Māori tradition. He is particularly known to tribes with origins in the Gisborne District...
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    Tongarewa and incorporates a contemporary wharenui (meeting house) Te Hono ki Hawaiki. It is located on the museum's 4th floor overlooking Wellington harbour...
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  • Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki; Te Rīrino was said to be lost at...
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    Te Pou Hawaiki (also known as Epsom Avenue or Ōwhatihue) is a volcano in the Auckland volcanic field in New Zealand. It was a small, low scoria cone south-east...
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    at the University of Auckland in 2005, titled An investigation of how Hawaiki knowledge is fundamental for Maori leadership, in which he sought to contribute...
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  • several entities: a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed...
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    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...
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    the island. Other accounts attribute the name to the legendary realm of Hawaiki, a place from which some Polynesians are said to have originated, the place...
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    Zealand on the Tainui waka, which voyaged across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaiki to Aotearoa (North Island) approximately 800 years ago. According to Pei...
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    Thames and Hudson. p. 175. Kirch, Patrick Vinton; Green, Roger C. (2001). "Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia : An Essay in Historical Anthropology". Cambridge...
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    sport va'a is practiced in all the islands. French Polynesia hosts the Hawaiki nui va'a [fr; it; no] an international race between Tahiti, Huahine and...
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  • original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some iwi cluster into larger groupings that are based on whakapapa (genealogical...
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  • Retrieved 9 September 2022. Kirch, Patrick Vinton; Green, Roger C. (2001). Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology. Cambridge University...
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  • descendants yet live in Hawaiki, some in Aotearoa (or in these islands); the greater part of his descendants remained in Hawaiki, but a few of them came...
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    Zealand, where the original *w is used instead of v, the ancient home is Hawaiki. In the Cook Islands, where the glottal stop replaces the original *s (with...
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    related to Māori. According to legend, Māori came to New Zealand from Hawaiki. Current anthropological thinking places their origin in eastern Polynesia...
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    elaborate mythology that had been inherited from a Polynesian homeland (Hawaiki) and adapted and developed in the new setting. Alongside different Polynesian...
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  • where it will connect to global submarine networks. In July 2018, the Hawaiki cable was activated with a branch providing a 200 Gb/s connection from...
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    neighboring Huahine, Raiatea, and Tahaa, one of the four islands among which the Hawaiki Nui Va'a [fr; it; no], an international competition of Polynesian canoes...
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  • ariki (chieftain), who captained the Tākitimu canoe on its journey from Hawaiki to New Zealand, where he settled at Tauranga and became the ancestor of...
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  • In Māori mythology, Kuramārōtini was the daughter of Toto, a chief of Hawaiki. Toto made a gift to her of the canoe Matahourua, in which she went out...
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    Kirch, Patrick Vinton; Green, Rorger C.; Green, Roger Curtis (2001). Hawaiki, ancestral Polynesia: an essay in historical anthropology (1 ed.). Cambridge:...
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  • The Maero are said to harbour anger towards the Māori, who arrived from Hawaiki, and are thought to have displaced them and ruined the tapu (sacredness)...
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    (Aotearoa) by the Māori people, who came from the traditional homeland Hawaiki on the Arawa canoe. He is the ancestor of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and his travels...
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    Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Ngātoro-i-rangi called volcanic fire from his homeland Hawaiki, which eventually emerged at Ngauruhoe. The name given by Ngātoro-i-rangi...
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