Aotea, Arawa, and Tainui are waka (canoes) that carried the ancestors of the Māori people to New Zealand. They are significant in Māori mythology and history, representing the different tribal groups that settled in different parts of the country.
The seven traditional Maori waka (canoes) are: Arawa, Tainui, Tokomaru, Mataatua, Kurahaupo, Takitimu, and Horouta. Each waka represents a different tribe or group within Maori culture and history.
The Maori canoe from the Great Fleet that sailed up the Tamaki Estuary is believed to be the canoe called Tainui. Tainui is considered one of the seven waka (canoes) that journeyed to New Zealand from Hawaiki.
The Maori name for Rangitoto, an island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, means "bloody sky" or "day of blood." This name likely refers to the island's association with certain rituals or battles that took place there in ancient times.
The Māori are Indigenous Polynesian people who migrated to New Zealand from other Pacific islands around a thousand years ago. They have a rich history and culture that is deeply connected to the land and sea of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Ko (name your waka, i.e Aotea) toku waka means "Aotea is my waka". It is a part of a pepeha....In Maori tikanga, when you go through your whakawhanaungatanga (meet n greet), in a nut shell you tell people not only your name, but your parents names, your tribe (iwi), sub tribe (hapu), the canoe that your ancestors arrived on (waka), etc.
Aotea, Arawa, Tainui, Kurahaupo, Takitimu, Horouata, Tokomaru and Mataatua
Te Arawa, Takitimu Tokomaru, Tainui, Mataatua, Kurahaupo, and Aotea.
The seven traditional Maori waka (canoes) are: Arawa, Tainui, Tokomaru, Mataatua, Kurahaupo, Takitimu, and Horouta. Each waka represents a different tribe or group within Maori culture and history.
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Tainui, Te arawa, Mataatua, Takitimu, Tokomaru, Kurahaupo and Aotea.
The most well-known of the legendary ocean-going canoes (wakanui) were Aotea, Te Arawa, Kurahaupo, Mataatua, Tainui, Takitimu, and Tokomaru. There were other canoes as well, named in other traditional tales.
Modern scholarship does not support the idea of a "Great Fleet" as was portrayed in earlier times. Nevertheless there certainly are legitimate 'canoe traditions' of the various tribes, and the names of the canoes include: Tainui, Te Arawa, Takitimu, Kurahaupo, Mataatua, Tokomaru, Aotea, and Ngatokomatawhaorua.For a modern view, the article under Great Fleet in teara.govt.nz will present the current position.
According to Maori native myths and legends, when the native Maori people arrived in New Zealand, they arrived in seven great Waka, or giant canoes, no-one knows where they originally came from, but all sensible answers point toward the pacific islands. When the Waka landed around the coast, they created the first seven tribes, and the Maori people started from that.
Aotea College was created in 1978.
Arawa Kimura was born on 1931-07-08.
Arawa Kimura died on 2007-02-21.
Puhi o Aotea Ratahi was born in 1898.