| They believe that this is the place where a person's spirit comes after death and departs to their enternal home of Hawaiki. |
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| The Maori chief was said to have made his own way from Hawaiki on the back of a ray. |
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| The Maori people believe that this is where their spirit goes on their journey to the Afterlife, before departing to Hawaiki. |
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| Maori are the tangata whenua of New Zealand, landing 1000 years ago from the mythical Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki. |
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| They then move through the underworld on a long journey to their spiritual home of Hawaiki. |
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| Many more canoes journeyed from Hawaiki, bringing the people who settled the land and who lived there for many hundreds of years before the arrival of the Pakeha. |
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| In one version of the story, Kupe was a fisher in the ancestral homeland called Hawaiki, who was annoyed by a great octopus which kept stealing his fish. |
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| It's based on the legend of man who lived with his brothers in Hawaiki. |
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| Legend has it that Ngatoroirangi, a revered spiritual leader and explorer, arrived from Hawaiki to New Zealand on his canoe 600 years ago. |
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| This is where Maoris believe the spirits of the dead depart on the journey to their heaven, called Hawaiki. |
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| It is not widely known that New Zealand was the last significant temperate land mass to be peopled, the first Polynesian migrants arriving from Hawaiki about 700 years ago. |
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