"An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey Demonstrates parallels between t…
"A history of the Far North and the iwi Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Te Rarawa, Te Paatu and Ngāti Kahu ... [including] whakapapa and a variety of ... stories, all of which have been discussed and agreed with local kaumatua."--Page 4 of cover.
"When she embarked on a research project on tourism in Muriwhenua Dorothy Urlich Cloher discovered that she could not discuss this topic without going back far into the past. She describes this book as a 'story of beginnings, evolution and consolidation, applied to the people wh…
"Since Europeans first set foot in New Zealand they have speculated about where the Maori people came from, how they made their way to New Zealand, and how they lived when they arrived here. Theories have abounded; some of them have hardened into accepted truth. The result has b…
Since Europeans first set foot in New Zealand they have speculated about where the Maori people came from, how they made their way to New Zealand and how they lived when they arrived here. Theories have abounded: some of them have hardened into accepted truth. The result has bee…
Since Europeans first set foot in New Zealand they have speculated about where the Maori people came from, how they made their way to New Zealand and how they lived when they arrived here. Theories have abounded: some of them have hardened into accepted truth. The result has bee…
"Maori story-tellers of the nineteenth century wrote these thirty traditional stories as they were accustomed to tell them. This illustrated anthology presents their writings in the original Maori and in ... [translation]"--Back cover.
