Hīnātore uriuri


“Ki te rāwhiti o Whangaroa, ko … Te Au-kānapanapa, koinei te wāhi i kīia ai te ūnga o Kupe i tana hekenga mai i Hawaiki.”
Mai i Evans, J. (1998).

E mōhio ana te kaiwhakatere mā ngā kānapanapa o roto o te wai hōhonu hei whakaatu i te aronga me te tawhiti o te whenua. Ko te lapa te ingoa ki Ngā Moutere o Hāto Kurūhi (taha rāwhiti o Ngā Moutere o Horomona); ko te mata ki Kiripati ki te Uru; me te ulo aetahi ki Tonga. Ka 150 kiromita ki te moana nui ka kitea te kānapanapa mai, e rērere ana ki tai, e rērere ana ki uta. Te pātatatanga mai o te whenua, ka tētere ake ka popoto ake ngā kānapanapa. Ka kitea te whenua, ka ngaro ngā kānapanapa.

Ko tēnei ‘uira o raro i te wai’ te kupu whakamārama a Tevake te kaiwhakatere ki a David Lewis, ka kotahi mita pea te kitenga i raro o te wai. Ka pō uriuri, pō kapua ka whāia ēnei e te kaiwhakatere. He rerekē ki te hīnātore, otirā te kārohirohi PAPAKUPU kārohirohi - te waihotanga o te waka ki te ara e haerea ai e te waka , e kitea ana ki runga o te wai, i te kōriporipo o ngā waka, me te pātata ki ngā ākau me te whenua. Kāore i te mōhiotia nā te aha te hinātore uriuri.

Tala Tala, A messenger for the anscestors

Fiji Wayfinder Tiu Tiua Bera

I wanted to learn if other people around the Pacific also knew about some of our navigation techniques like TELAPA On my visit to FIJI, I met TIUA BERA. He heard about it from his father Our father used to tell us It's a messenger that connects you and your ancestors. They show you the light and that light will be coming to you or appearing to you fast if you're connecting you to them. Otherwise, you find it hard to let the light to be seen. You have families who passed away. Always you must remember them, must... They guide you when you are lost although they cannot appear by -- as form of a human, but they show you their presence in the form of a light. Any place you go and somehow you feel you are astray, you tap the ocean, tap the water and ask for their guidance. Definitely they will show you. Tala Tala. It's a messenger. Yes!

“From The Vaka Taumako Project.”