A documentary series taking and indepth look at the origins of the Māori people.
Reikura (Ngāti Porou, Waikato, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Rarotonga) and Kawariki Morgan (Ngāti Porou, Waikato, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Rarotonga) visit Tahiti, Samoa, Rarotonga and other Pacific Nations in search of Hawaiki, the spiritual and physical homeland of the Māori.
Ka hoki a Reikura rāua ko Kawariki Morgan ki ngā moutere o te Moananui-ā-Kiwa ki te rapu kōrero, hitori me ngā wānanga e pa ana ki te kainga tūturu o te tangata, ko Hawaikii.
Te huarahi ā ngā tūpuna mai Hawaiki ki Aotearoa nei.
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Hawaiki
(location) ancient homeland - the places from which Māori migrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand. According to some traditions it was Io, the supreme being, who created Hawaiki-nui, Hawaiki-roa, Hawaiki-pāmamao and Hawaiki-tapu, places inhabited by atua. It is believed that the wairua returns to these places after death, and speeches at tangihanga refer to these as the final resting place of wairua.
I kī rā ahau he tohu aua whetū. Koia nei hoki te kāpehu a ō tātou tūpuna i whakawhiti mai ai i Hawaiki (TTT 1/7/1922 wh3). / I have stated that those were navigational stars. they were the compass of our ancestors who migrated here from Hawaiki.