In Māori mythology, Hawaiki is 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. == Etymology== Linguists have reconstructed the term to Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *sawaiki. The Māori word Hawaiki figures in legends about the arrival of the Māori in Aot...
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(from the article `Maori`) ...Zealand. Their traditional history describes their origins in terms of waves of migration beginning about 1150 and culminating in the arrival of a ...
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