2. (modifier) distant.
Kāhore ia rātou i kite i tā rāua tamaiti i mua - nō te mea i haere atu hoki rātou ki te whenua mamao me te roa o tā rātou noho ki reira (KO 15/5/1883:16). / But they didn't see their child before that because they went to a distant country and lived there a long time.
3. (location) a distant place.
He pua e rere i te hau, ka rere atu ki mamao (TP 1/1/1901:9). / A bloom blown in the wind, drifting to a distant place.
4. (noun) distance.
Hoe atu ana mātou ki tētahi wāhi o te toka, kīhai i kotahi māero te mamao mai i te motu (TTT 1/9/1926:464). / We rowed to another part of the rock which was less than a mile distance from the island.
Hawaiki
1. (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 1/7/1922:3). / I have stated that those were navigational stars. they were the compass of our ancestors who migrated here from Hawaiki.
