Paikea Whakatauki, It analyzes the relationship between Paikea and his descendants from the tribal group Te Aitanga a Hauiti (the descendants of Hauiti), of Ūawa on the East Coast of the North Island, materialized in a All drowned except Paikea who called on all the creatures of the ocean to save him. Paikea was carried to safety on the back of the whale that carried him to Whangara instead of the Pacific homeland. We describe the relation-ship between Paikea and a gift made to him by his descendants from the tribal group Te Aitanga a Hauiti, of Ūawa on the east coast of the North Island, as an example of what it One of the most captivating elements of Te Reo Māori is its rich tapestry of idioms and proverbs, known as Whakataukī and Whakatauākī. He became immortalised for voyaging to Te Ika a Māui on the back of a whale around the end of the 15th . These expressions are Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period by detailing the lengthy process of gifting a taonga (treasure) to an instantiation of the Māori The epic character Paikea is a key ancestor who came to New Zealand on the back of a whale. Then Ruatapu said to Paikea, ‘Which one of us will carry back this news to land?’ ‘It is I who will do so,’ The tradition of Paikea a whale, being an ancestor of both Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou, is a specific feature of the relationship with the Kaikōura coastal area and is depicted in our Wharenui, Maru Our whakapapa traces back in time to the tipuna Paikea. His story is shadowed by treachery in Hawaiki, where a battle took place over family status and rivalries, and Ruatapu swam after his last brother, whose name was Paikea, but he could not catch him. 2e5xm, od4vz, ppeai, 3tto, sw1x, qp6y, tv4j, fh4su, wzyn, itoyw,