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.
pou o Hawaiki
1. (noun) Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus - larger brown rat, arrived with the first European settlers.
Synonyms: maungarua, kiore, kaingarua, pouhawaiki
2. (personal name) house of the males atua, the whatukura, in the uppermost heaven.
Kahukura
1. (personal name) a name of several atua and ancestors, including: the atua of the rainbow, the ancestor of the North who learnt the art of netmaking from the patupaiarehe, an atua of war, and the ancestor who returned to Hawaiki on Horouta to bring the kūmara to Aotearoa.
See also atua, Uenuku, Haere, Tūāwhiorangi
2. (noun) stone of a reddish or brown colour brought by the kākā in its crop from Hawaiki.
2. (personal name) people descended from the crew of this canoe from Hawaiki whose territories are in Northland and the Bay of Plenty.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 30;)
Ngā-toki-mata-whao-rua
1. (personal noun) refashioned Mātā-hou-rua canoe that returned to Hokianga from Hawaiki.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 30; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 210-219;)
See also Matawhaorua, Ngā-toki-mātā-hou-rua
2. (personal noun) term used for the tribes whose ancestors came on the Tainui canoe and whose territory includes the Waikato, Hauraki and King Country areas.
3. (location) a term for the territory of the tribes descended from the crew of the Tainui canoe.
Tākitimu
1. (personal noun) a migration canoe - the crew of this canoe from Hawaiki are claimed as ancestors by Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Ranginui.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 31;)
See also Tākitumu
