Uruaokapuarangi
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Origins
Originally, Script error: No such module "Lang". was said to belong to a chief from Te PatunuioāioTemplate:Efn named Taitewhenua.[2] He decided to give the canoe to the renowned Script error: No such module "Lang". (astronomer) Matiti, who then gave it to Rākaihautū and encouraged him to use it to explore new lands.[3]
In the 9th century,[4] Rākaihautū, accompanied by his wife Waiariki-o-āio, their son Te Rakihouia, Matiti,[5] and other kin of the Te Kāhui Tipua, Te Kāhui Roko, and Te Kāhui Waitaha tribes, set sail across the Pacific Ocean in search of new land.[2][3]
Voyage and arrival
On the journey to the South Island the heavens and the ocean blocked the canoe's path, until Rākaihautū chanted a Script error: No such module "Lang". and cut a passage with his adze,[6] Kapakitua.[7]Template:Efn He eventually landed the Script error: No such module "Lang". at Boulder Bank,[4] Nelson, at the top of the South Island.[8]
From Nelson, Rākaihautū and his wife separated from Te Rakihouia and began to explore the Southern Alps down to Foveaux Strait, digging out the island's great lakes and waterways as he went.[9] Te Rakihouia and Waitaa (or Waitaha) took the canoe and continued down the east coast, naming the cliffs at Kaikōura Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Food Storehouse of Rakihouia) and eventually finding a lake at Banks Peninsula now called Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora, naming its coastline Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Eel Weirs Of Te Rakihouia).[2][9] The canoe continued, and eventually landed at the mouth of the Clutha River, which they named Script error: No such module "Lang". (or Script error: No such module "Lang".).[7]
Both parties moved back up the east coast from the southerly points that they each landed,[2] meeting at Waihao, near the Waitaki River where the canoe now makes up part of the riverbed at Wai Kakahi (near Glenavy).[4]
See also
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- List of Māori waka
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Notes
References
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External links
- Terea te Waka, a chant that recalls the voyage of the Script error: No such module "Lang".
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