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Legend holds that the shape of Hawkes Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the fish's side on the beach. The Māori name for the North island, Te Ika a Māui ("The fish of Māui") reflects this legend. For the Māori, the hei matau is taonga (a cultural treasure). It represents not only their land, but also prosperity, fertility, and ...
The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...
It is a very common form in Maori jewellery (possibly only less common than the hei-tiki and hei matau), and is often found worn as a pendant carved from bone or greenstone. Manaia designs vary subtly in form between iwi, though they are often depicted as three-fingered, with these digits representing the trinity of birth, life, and death. A ...
A daughter of Rākaihautū, Te Uhi-tataraiakoa, stayed behind in Te Patunui-o-āio, and became the great grandmother of Toi. [9] Eight generations after Toi there lived Waitaha-nui and after him Waitaha-araki, [14] after whom there came Hāwea-i-te-raki, [e] and finally seven generations later lived Hotumāmoe from Hastings, the founding ancestor of Ngāti Māmoe.
The term "waka huia" is also occasionally used figuratively, as in the TVNZ television programme Waka Huia.This is a long-running TV series (since 1987) aiming to record and preserve Māori culture and customs as well as covering social and political concerns, presented completely in te reo Māori (language).
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern tales of supernatural events relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pre-European Māori, often involving gods and demigods.
Should she take on the thornier moments of history — Korean or otherwise — the author would do best to push past shimmering symbols and easy archetypes into a reality far messier than we might ...
Korean History began to be compiled in late 1969. Initially, the historians planned to published 30 books from 1971 to 1976, but they adjusted their plans. They decided to divide Korean history into four main eras: the ancient period, Goryeo, Joseon, and the modern period. The table of contents for the series was prepared from July 1970 to ...