-
Avaiki is one of the many
names by
which the
peoples of
Polynesia refer to
their ancestral and
spiritual homelands. By no
means certain, but certainly...
- The Cook
Islands (Rarotongan: Kūki ‘Airani; Penrhyn: Kūki Airani) is an
island country in Polynesia, part of
Oceania in the
South Pacific Ocean. It consists...
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Hawaiki (also
rendered as
ʻAvaiki in the Cook Islands,
Hawaiki in Māori, Savaiʻi in Samoan, Havaiʻi in Tahitian, Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian) is, in Polynesian...
- of
flesh and blood, was
admitted to the
lowest depth of the
interior of
Avaiki, a
place described as
resembling a vast
hollow coconut s****. Such is the...
- in
other Polynesian languages,
including Māori (Hawaiki),
Rarotongan (
ʻAvaiki) and
Samoan (Savaiʻi).
According to
linguists Pukui and Elbert, "elsewhere...
- *s (with a
likely intermediate stage of *h) and /v/
replaces *w, it is
ʻAvaiki. In the
Hawaiian islands,
where /ʔ/ and /h/
replace *k and *s, respectively...
-
traditions also vary. At Rarotonga, Tiki is the
guardian of the
entrance to
Avaiki, the underworld.
Offerings were made to him as
gifts for the
departing soul...
-
accessible via a trail.
Further west on the
coast the user will
encounter Avaiki Cave. The
coastline also
includes numerous coastal caverns including Ana...
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Ngaru is a
mythological hero from
Avaiki (Hawaiki) in the
mythology of
Mangaia in the Cook Islands. Ngaru's
mother was
Vaiare and his
grandfather the great...
- sisters. As soon as the dawn arrives, the
Tapairu returned to
their home in
Avaiki. R.D. Craig,
Dictionary of
Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York...
