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What does Hawaiki mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (mythology) The original home of the Māori, before they travelled across the sea to New Zealand. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.
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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.
They believe that this is the place where a person's spirit comes after death and departs to their enternal home of Hawaiki.
The Maori chief was said to have made his own way from Hawaiki on the back of a ray.
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.
It's based on the legend of man who lived with his brothers in Hawaiki.
Maori are the tangata whenua of New Zealand, landing 1000 years ago from the mythical Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki.

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