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Navigating the stars : Māori creation myths / Witi Ihimaera.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Auckland] : Penguin Random House New Zealand., 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 432 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0143774999
  • 9780143774990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Navigating the starsDDC classification:
  • 398.208999442 23
LOC classification:
  • GR375 .I45 2020
Incomplete contents:
Prologue. Te pōtiki, the youngest: The children of men -- Part one. Te tīmatanga, in the beginning: First there was nothing -- Part 2. Ngā ira atua, the god brothers: Te Ūkaipō, the Homeland ; Progeny of primal parents ; Io-matua-kore ; The creation of our own, 12th, Heaven of Stars ; The first war of the gods ; The second, Whiro's war -- Part 3. The uwha of humankind, te ira wāhine: Tāne triumphant ; The whare wānanga ; The uwha, the ira wāhine ; Humankind begins -- Part 4. Ka mārama te Ao, when the World was shining: Brave new world ; Atua, tūrehu and tāngata (Te Hinutohu and Whaka-rūaumoko, Mataora and Niwareka) ; Tā moko, tāniko and whakairo (Rua-te-Pupuke and his daughter Te Manu-hau-turuki, Pani who became Pani-tinaku and the birth of kūmara) ; Te mea nui o te Ao (The real origin of kūmara, Uenuku and Hine-[ūkohu-rangi) -- Part 5. Māui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga, Māui the demigod: Māui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga ; The labours of Māui ; Hina, Sister of the demigods -- Part 6. Tūranga, dynasty: Hawaiki, post-Māui ; The Mā'ohi world in mourning ; Tāwhaki ; Stairway to the Stars -- Wahie-roa, high chief -- Part 7. Tōia mai ngā waka nei, navigating the Stars: Let the voyaging myths begin ; Spaceships of the ancestors ; The great Mā'ohi navigators and their waka ; New syntheses for a new generation ; The merchant voyagers ; Seven waka (Aotea, Kurahaupō II, Tainui, Te Arawa, Mātaatua, Tokomaru, Tākitimu) ; How many canoes? -- Epilogue. Taonga tuku iho, treasures handed down: Te pōtiki, the youngest.
Summary: "Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama downinto the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who sailed across the ocean to our shores ... From Hawaiki to Aotearoa, the ancient navigators brought their myths, while looking to the stars - bright with gods, ancestors and stories - to guide the way"--Publisher information.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue. Te pōtiki, the youngest: The children of men -- Part one. Te tīmatanga, in the beginning: First there was nothing -- Part 2. Ngā ira atua, the god brothers: Te Ūkaipō, the Homeland ; Progeny of primal parents ; Io-matua-kore ; The creation of our own, 12th, Heaven of Stars ; The first war of the gods ; The second, Whiro's war -- Part 3. The uwha of humankind, te ira wāhine: Tāne triumphant ; The whare wānanga ; The uwha, the ira wāhine ; Humankind begins -- Part 4. Ka mārama te Ao, when the World was shining: Brave new world ; Atua, tūrehu and tāngata (Te Hinutohu and Whaka-rūaumoko, Mataora and Niwareka) ; Tā moko, tāniko and whakairo (Rua-te-Pupuke and his daughter Te Manu-hau-turuki, Pani who became Pani-tinaku and the birth of kūmara) ; Te mea nui o te Ao (The real origin of kūmara, Uenuku and Hine-[ūkohu-rangi) -- Part 5. Māui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga, Māui the demigod: Māui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga ; The labours of Māui ; Hina, Sister of the demigods -- Part 6. Tūranga, dynasty: Hawaiki, post-Māui ; The Mā'ohi world in mourning ; Tāwhaki ; Stairway to the Stars -- Wahie-roa, high chief -- Part 7. Tōia mai ngā waka nei, navigating the Stars: Let the voyaging myths begin ; Spaceships of the ancestors ; The great Mā'ohi navigators and their waka ; New syntheses for a new generation ; The merchant voyagers ; Seven waka (Aotea, Kurahaupō II, Tainui, Te Arawa, Mātaatua, Tokomaru, Tākitimu) ; How many canoes? -- Epilogue. Taonga tuku iho, treasures handed down: Te pōtiki, the youngest.

"Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama downinto the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who sailed across the ocean to our shores ... From Hawaiki to Aotearoa, the ancient navigators brought their myths, while looking to the stars - bright with gods, ancestors and stories - to guide the way"--Publisher information.

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