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This is a list of Māori waka (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki; Te Rīrino was said to be lost at sea.
Te Waka a Māui (the canoe or vessel of Māui) is a Māori name for the South Island of New Zealand. [1] Some Māori mythology says that it was the vessel which Māui (a demi-god hero, who possessed magic powers) stood on as he hauled up Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Māui – the North Island).
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Māui or Maui is the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity ( demigod ) and more of a folk hero . His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.
However, the term waka ama occurs in old stories, such as the story of Māui published by Grey in 1854 and in a few old waiata; Tregear also mentions the waka ama as "a possession of the Māori", adding that "It was beneath the outrigger of such a canoe that the famous Maui crushed his wife's brother Irawaru before turning him into a dog. Both ...
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes . Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki . Among these is the story of Kupe , who had eloped with Kūrāmarotini , the wife of Hoturapa , the owner of the great canoe Matahourua , whom Kupe had ...
The history of the Nelson Region of New Zealand dates back to settlement by the Māori people in about the 12th century. [1] The Nelson and Marlborough Region were known to the Māori as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui which means "The Prow of the Canoe of Maui".
In Northern Māori traditions of New Zealand, Māui's waka became the South Island, with Banks Peninsula marking the place supporting his foot as he pulled up that extremely heavy fish. Besides the official name of Te Waipounamu, another Māori name for the South Island is Te Waka-a-Māui, the canoe of Māui.