Tainui (canoe)

In the mythology of the Tainui Māori was the name of one of the great sea-going canoes ( waka ) in which immigrant Polynesians about 800 years ago to New Zealand. The canoe Tainui was named after a stillborn infant: On location in a place called Maungaroa grave of this child in Hawaiki a mighty tree that was used to build this canoe grew.

Travel

On the Tuamotu Archipelago several stories are narrated by which canoes called Tainui or Tainuia ( with Hoturoa as leader ) and Tainui - atea ( with Tahorotakarari as leader ) left the island group and never returned.

In the tradition of Māori canoe Tainui is handed down under a chief Hoturoa. On his journey, it landed on many Pacific Islands and finally arrived in New Zealand. It first landed at Whangaparaoa in Auckland on the North Island. Tainui then traveled on to Tauranga, the Coromandel Peninsula and by Waitemata. From the Waitemata Harbour on the east coast the ship across the Isthmus of Tamaki in today's Manukau Harbour was towed to the west coast over the country. From Manukau led the trip to Kaipara in the north, then to the west coast to the south to the ports of Whaingaroa ( Raglan ), Aotea and Kawhia. She led southwards to the south of the mouth of the Mokau River and Mohakatini River, after that it went back to the north on the final landing place at Maketu in Kawhia Harbour. The team went every time on land and descendants of the crew were several tribes ( iwi ), many of which are united under the Tainui confederation.