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Podcast: Paki Kēhua
Episode: Mata(ku)riki
Description: Episode 22 – Mata(ku)riki (Based on a True Story)Â
Hawaiki is our ancient homeland, but where is it and how did we forget its location in less than a thousand years? Here's an answer that I grew up with. When we asked Koro if he knew where Hawaiki was, he would always point upwards. "We're from the stars," he would say. "How else could we know without cartography tools that the North Island looked like a fish? The only way you could know is via an aerial view... from the stars." There are clues everywhere that we are...