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A documentary series taking and indepth look at the origins of the Māori people.
Reikura and Kawariki Morgan visit Tahiti, Samoa, Rarotonga and other Pacific Nations in search of Hawaiki, the spiritual and physical homeland of the Māori.
Ka hoki a Reikura rāua ko Kawariki Morgan ki ngā moutere o te Moananui-ā-Kiwa ki te rapu kōrero, hitori me ngā wānanga e pa ana ki te kainga tūturu o te tangata, ko Hawaikii.
Ngā wāhi rongonui.
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Hawaiki
(location) ancient homeland - the places from which Māori migrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand. According to some traditions it was Io, the supreme being, who created Hawaiki-nui, Hawaiki-roa, Hawaiki-pāmamao and Hawaiki-tapu, places inhabited by atua. It is believed that the wairua returns to these places after death, and speeches at tangihanga refer to these as the final resting place of wairua.
I kī rā ahau he tohu aua whetū. Koia nei hoki te kāpehu a ō tātou tūpuna i whakawhiti mai ai i Hawaiki (TTT 1/7/1922 wh3). / I have stated that those were navigational stars. they were the compass of our ancestors who migrated here from Hawaiki.
Patu Hōhepa (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure) - Historian