That was a cool read.
Makes sense, water levels have been rising since the end of the last Ice Age. I love how the Maori can trace their lineage back aaaaages.
That was a cool read.
Makes sense, water levels have been rising since the end of the last Ice Age. I love how the Maori can trace their lineage back aaaaages.
Originally they had no written language, so everything had to be word of mouth, memory.
When you introduce yourself on a meeting ground, they start as far back as they can, usually to one of the canoes, then hit the highlights over the next 800 - 900 years, the more battles that the ancestors won the better, if they lost, they got eaten, and that finished the story.
Some of them had 8-10 wives, just think of the mother in law problems.
I think the disappearance of the land was erosion, having seen the force of the westerly wind-driven waves it is a wonder there is a west coast left