Arawa Waka

The Arawa waka sometimes even Te Arawa waka or only Te Arawa called in was mythology of Māori one of the canoes ( waka ), which according to oral traditions of 1350 Hawaiki coming Zealand should have reached.

Origin of name

According to tradition, the name arawa was the name of a mystical shark that protected the boat and the canoe was named arawa in his honor .

history

The leader of the Arawa Waka is said to have been Tama-te-kapua , who, after a military dispute over food resources with the Uenuku tribe , was the only one who survived the fight and fled with members of his tribe with the Arawa Waka . But before that he kidnapped Whakaoterangi , the beautiful wife of Ruaeo , a prominent man of the tribe, and forced Ngatoroirangi (Ngātoro) of the Tainui Waka to drive with him as navigator. Having reached New Zealand, Tama-te-kapua first went ashore at Ratanui near Cape Runaway , but then sailed further north, passed White Island and Cape Colville on the Hauraki Gulf , and then went ashore on the Coromandel Peninsula near the Moehau Range and there to settle. Other sources state that the canoe ultimately landed in Maketū Harbor in the Bay of Plenty and the crew settled there.

Iwi descent from the Arawa Waka

• Ngāti Pikiao
• Ngāti Rangiteaorere
• Ngāti Rangitihi
• Ngāti Rangiwewehi
• Tapuika
• Tarāwhai
• Tūhourangi
• Uenuku-kōpako
• Waitaha
• Ngāti Whakaue
• Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa

See also

• Waka (canoe)
• List of Iwi in New Zealand

literature

• Elsdon Best : The Maori Canoe . Ed .: AR Shearer . Wellington 1925, The "Arawa" Canoe , p. 398-400 (English, online [accessed April 5, 2016]).

Web links

• Ngā Tāunga Mai o Ngā Waka - The coming of the canoes . (PDF 1.9 MB)Land Information New Zealand,accessed on March 30, 2016(English). 
• Rāwiri Taonui : Canoe traditions Te Arawa and Tainui . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , September 22, 2012, accessed April 5, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rāwiri Taonui : Canoe traditions Te Arawa and Tainui . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , September 22, 2012, accessed April 5, 2016 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bernard John Foster : Tama Te Kapua . In: An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Alexander Hare McLintock , September 22, 2012, accessed April 5, 2016 .