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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 ...
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.
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.
180 years of solitude. For nearly two centuries, the origins of a Spanish whaler and trader who founded a dynasty on the east coast were a mystery. Manuel Jose’s descendants are New Zealand’s largest family, and have recently reunited with their Spanish relatives. This summer, the Spaniards journeyed to the east coast for the first time to ...
The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
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.
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t. 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 ...
