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Karakia are Māori incantations and prayer used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection. [1] They are also considered a formal greeting when beginning a ceremony . According to Māori legend, there was a curse on the Waiapu River which was lifted when George Gage (Hori Keeti) performed karakia.
Karaköy has been a port area since Byzantine times when the north shore of the Golden Horn was a separate settlement facing Stamboul/Constantinople over the water. After the re-conquest of the city from the Latin State in 1261, the Byzantine emperor granted Genoese merchants permission to settle and do business here as part of a defense pact.
French map of the Coromandel coast by Monsieur d'Anville from 1753. When news of the Swedish presence reached Governor Pitt in Madras, he wished to end the Swedish trade in the region and attempted to convince the Nawab to put a stop to it. [4] However, the Nawab refused, and Pitt subsequently decided to act independently.
Māhanga was the son of Tūheitia, a famous warrior, based at Papa-o-rotu in Waikāretu, who was said to have never been attacked at home and was the author of the proverbial saying, "come to me, to the Papa-o-rotu, to the unstirred current, to the pillow that falls not, and the undisturbed sleep.
"Hapa" meant to pass over, or ward off, while the exclamation "Hau!" at the end of the choruses – said by one soldier to uttered in a way that sounded like the bark of a dog [19] – had a literal meaning of "wind" but referred to the life principle or vital spark of man, while the wind angels were named "Anahera hau". [9]
The Whau River has often been used as a border between western and central Auckland. West Auckland is not a strictly defined area. It includes the former Waitakere City, which existed between 1989 and 2010 between the Whau River and Hobsonville, [2] [3] an area which includes major suburbs such as Henderson, Te Atatū, Glen Eden, Titirangi and New Lynn.
Ngāpuhi, like most iwi, trace their pre-history back to the land of Hawaiki, most likely from Raiatea.The name Ngāpuhi has many stories about its origin, [a] but the most commonly known version is related to a story of an ariki in Hawaiki who lived many generations before Kupe, known as Kareroaiki.
Towards the end of 1869 Te Kooti was at Taumarunui before his march through the western Taupō district to Tapapa. In the early 1880s the first surveys of the King Country commenced, and by the early 1890s the Crown had begun the purchase of large areas of land. In 1874, Alexander Bell set up a trading post, and became the first European settler.