Horouta Wananga Horouta Whanaunga

A google earth tour of Te Papatipu o Horouta.

Translation
As I Return to the Eastern seaboard and traverse
the ancestral land of the Horouta canoe.
I come upon Tikirau the landing place of the canoes.
I turn and travel by the coast to Patangata
The area of Tumoana Kotore
then to Maniaroa where the brown dogs of uetuhiao fought and died.
Thus severing Apanui and Ngati Porou

Kawakawa mai i tawhiti the area of te whanau a Tuwhakairiora
At Waiapu where the emptying of the Horouta canoe took place.
The Begining of Ngati Porou where they lived in multitudes.
The Mountain Hikurangi, where Maui’s canoe lies, the heart and symbol
of the people
The great tidal wave of Ruatapu
the proverbial saying of Te Kani a Takirau
A mountain steadfast ever since the beginning of time
It’s awesomeness embracing its people since time immemorial
the caretakers being Ngati Uepohatu
Te Aitanga a Mate and Umuariki.

I return again to the eastern seaboard come upon tawhiti a paoa
the area of te whanau a iritekura at marotiri at tuatini te whanau a ruataupare
at mangatuna at uawa
Te aitanga a Hauiti at Rototahi te whironui and the eminant Paikea!

I return again to the Eastern Seaboard and come upon Whangara mai i tawhiti
the time of HInematioro I approached Turanganui landing at Te Toka a Taiau
and thus the people of Te Aitanga a Mahaki
Rongawhakata and Kahungunu and the proverbial saying
Ka Tere raua ko tere Pipi Whakao
Each to his own autonomy prestige .
Manawaru and Araiteuru
Pipitaiari the strange and unexplained.
I land again at Te kuri a Pawa
the area of Tamanuhiri and Ruapani
the overlaping boundries of the two canoe areas.
Takitimu to the south
Horouta canoe lies petrified in the lake at Muriwai
the Horouta canoe from the eastern seaboard.
Emanating its mantle and essence into the world of Light.