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In tradition, Ranginui (the sky father) and Papatūānuku (the earth mother) were the parents of Tāne. Tāne made the first woman from the soil, naming her Hineahuone. One story says ‘the arms, the body, the limbs, the thighs, these all took shape and the skeleton was complete’. With Tāne she had a daughter, Hinetītama, later known as ...
Page 4 – Early meetings between peoples. Portrait of an unknown young Māori chief (Alexander Turnbull Library, PUBL-0037-16 ) On the evening of 18 December 1642, two waka of Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri people approached two strange ships, which had anchored near the north-western tip of the South Island. These ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen ...
This inspired the 19th-century ethnologist Elsdon Best to dub the Tūhoe people ‘the children of the mist’. The patupaiarehe and tūrehu – living in secluded mountains, they are said to be the first tangata whenua (people of the land). Kupe and Toitehuatahi – explorers who are among the important pre-canoe ancestors.
First peoples in Māori tradition: Patupaiarehe, tūrehu and other inhabitants Content partner Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Collection Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Description. The following story was written by Hoani Nahe, a Ngāti Maru (Hauraki) elder of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
e. The history of the Māori began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers in New Zealand ( Aotearoa in Māori ), in a series of ocean migrations in canoes starting from the late 13th or early 14th centuries. Over time, in isolation the Polynesian settlers developed a distinct Māori culture . Early Māori history is often divided into two ...
Early ideas. When Europeans discovered New Zealand, they wondered about the origins of the Māori people. James Cook noticed that Polynesians and Māori had similar appearances and cultures. He believed they had migrated from the islands of South-East Asia. It is now agreed that Māori are Polynesians whose ancestors lived in the Taiwan region.
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Maori culture featured an esoteric cult dedicated to a supreme being named Io. The rudiments of the discovery and settlement theory are these. New Zealand was dis-covered in A.D. 925 by Kupe, a man from Ra'iatea in the Society Islands. The first set-tlers, Toi and his grandson Whatonga, arrived from Tahiti in about the middle of the 12th century.
