Hawaiki : a new approach to Māori tradition /
Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006,
Hawaiki : a new approach to Māori tradition / Margaret Orbell. - Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 1991. - 81 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 30 cm.
"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.
0908812159 (paperback) 9780908812158 (paperback)
93181104
Māori (New Zealand people)--Religion.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Origin.
Māori (New Zealand people)--History.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Folklore.
Tāngata whenua
Pūrākau
GR375 / .O73 1991
291.13089994
Hawaiki : a new approach to Māori tradition / Margaret Orbell. - Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 1991. - 81 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 30 cm.
"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.
0908812159 (paperback) 9780908812158 (paperback)
93181104
Māori (New Zealand people)--Religion.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Origin.
Māori (New Zealand people)--History.
Māori (New Zealand people)--Folklore.
Tāngata whenua
Pūrākau
GR375 / .O73 1991
291.13089994