![]() On the fourth morning, Hape, looking up, thought he saw a huge tidal wave coming towards him, but as it got closer he realised that it was a huge taniwha (sea god) in the shape of a stingray, arising out of the sea, coming to the kneeling Hape. Hape continued his prayers and incantations. Three days and three nights went without eating or sleeping. Still pleading, Hape fell to his knees weeping, uttering incantations and praying to his Tupuna, Tangaroa – God of all the Seas – to help him. So the many canoes sailed away leaving Hape. On the day of departure, Hape pleaded with his hapu to hide him in one of the canoes, but no one took any notice of him. Realising that he was one of those who would be left behind, Hape wept and prayed to have his body restored to normality, but alas this was not to be. (‘Hape’ means ‘deformed feet’, and in his case, both feet turned inward.)ĭuring the meeting of the tuakana, it was decided that only the young, of sound mind and body, would make the long voyage to this land we now call New Zealand. The meeting was to discuss the voyage in general, and those who would go.īecause he was the eldest of the male line of his hapuu (sub-tribe), Hape was chosen as a representative, but because he had been born with deformed feet, the choice was not popular. “During their preparations for their Great Migration across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, to the land of Aotearoa, a meeting was held between the tuakana (eldest males) of each family. This history was told to us from one of our kaumatua, the late Maurice Wilson, and was told to him by his father, Jack Haki Manutapuwaenui Wilson: Hape was a Tohunga (a priest), whose story has been told for eighteen generations. Te Ipu o Mataoho-The bowl of Mataoho-Mt Eden. Te Upoko o Mataoho- The Head of Mataoho-Mangere Mountain Te Pane o Mataoho- The Decaputated head of Mataoho- Mangere Mountain Nga Tapuwae o Mataoho-The sacred footprints of Mataoho-Puukaki Our tupuna awa, Ooruarangi, and the historic Otuataua Stonefields, it is Makaurau Marae is situated in the heart of Ihumaatao Pa. The original name for Ihumaatao is Te-Ihu-o-Mataoho – The nose of Mataoho The fire she sent to warm him formed Ngaa Huinga-a-Mataoho (the gathered volcanoes of Mataoho). When his wife left him, taking all his clothes, Mataoho called Mataoho lived in Te Ipu-a-Mataoho (the bowl of Mataoho – Mt Eden’sĬrater). Volcanic cones dominate the geography of Taamaki, and oral traditions ![]() Killed in a battle at Paruroa (Great Muddy Creek) by Te Waha-Akiaki of Around 1741 their paramount chief, Kiwi Taamaki, was Te Wai-o-Hua remained the main tribe on the Taamaki isthmus well into ![]() Ngaa Oho subsequently divided into three groups,īased in three areas: Ngaa Oho at Papakura Ngaa Riki from Papakura to Ootaahuhu-Ihumaatao and Ngaa Iwi from Ootaahuhu-Ihumaatao to the North Shore.Įventually they merged to become Te Wai-o-Hua (the waters of Hua) under Te Wai-O-Hua originates from Te Wakatuuwhenua and Te Moekaakara canoes,Īnd from the early Hawaiki tribe Ngaa Ohomatakamokamo-o-Ohomairangi (Ngaa Oho), who once dominated much of the land between Tauranga and Cape
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