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Te Hono ki Rarotonga

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Kingi Kiriona - 2009

Nō  Te Iti Kahurangi te hōnore, i te marama o Hepetema rua mano mā iwa, i whai wāhi ai rātou ki te tira haere a Kīngi Tūheitia ki Rarotonga.  He mea whakarite te haerenga nei e te Kāwanatanga o taua whenua, hei whakakaha i ngā here kōpūtahi i waenga i ngā iwi e rua.

Nā, i a rātou i reira, he nui ngā kōrero i puta mō te hono a Tainui waka ki Rarotonga.  Ko te kōrero kei a ngaa iwi o Rarotonga, e pēnei ana.  He tangata kē a Tainui i whānau mai i roto o Tahiti, engari, i whāngaihia e ōna tūpuna i Hawaiiki.  Ka rangatahi ana a Tainui, ka tupu te hiahia ki roto i a ia ki ōna mātua, me ana teina i mahue atu rā ki Tahiti.  Ko te Kārae-a-Kura te ingoa o te waka i tere i a ia i Hawaiiki ki ana teina, arā, ki a Tai-te-ūkui, Tai-te-nio-veri, Tai-te-rā-varu, me Tai-te-rā-iva.  Nō muri mai, ka karangahia te kāhui nei me ō rātou uri ko Ngāti Tai. 

Kāore i roa, i pākiki a Tainui me tōna whānau mō ngā whenua kei tawhiti.  I piki rātou ki runga i tōna waka, i whakaingoa anōtia te waka ko Ītere.  Tō rātou ūnga tuatahi ko Araura, e mōhio whānuitia ana i ēnei rā ko Aitutaki.  I konei, i noho a Tainui ki a Kura-i-te-rā, he wahine nā te rangatira, nā Rū, i kite tuatahi i te moutere o Araura.  Ko te uri ko Taitumu.

Ka taka te wā, ka tau te tupuna a Ngahue ki Araura me ana kōrero whakarekareka mō te pounamu i kitea rā e ia i Tiritiri-o-te-moana, arā, i Aotearoa.  He pērā rawa te whakamīharo atu a Tainui ki ēnei kōrero a Ngahue, i piki anō rātou ko ana uri ki tana waka.  Nō konei i Tainui ai te ingoa o te waka.  I tere rātou ki te whanga o Ngātangiia, ki Rarotonga, ki te wāhi i kūrei ai hoki ērā atu waka o te Māori.  Katahi rā a Tainui ka heke pēnei mai ki Aotearoa.

Ko tō rātou, ko tō Te Iti Kahurangi maringanui, ko ngā wāhi o roto i ēnei kōrero kei Rarotonga me Araura, he wāhi i tae-ā-tinana atu ai rātou.  Ka mutu, ko nga rangi i ētahi wāhanga o te whakaeke nei, he tauira nō ngā momo waiata taketake pēnei i te ute me te pe’e, i tīpakohia i roto i ā rātou hīkoinga wae.

Nō reira, he whakamaharatanga tēnei ki tā rātou haere ki Rarotonga i te taha o te Kīngi, e kore e maunu i te pūkeitanga mahara.

Maori lyrics

Tūrou! Tūrou!
E noho ana i te toka ki Ngātangiia e
Te iringa tēnā o Tainui e
I Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

Ka tangi pōrutu mai ko te au mahara e
Te hekenga mai i Hawaiiki
I Te Moananui-a-Kiwa
Tūrou! Tūrou!
Nau mai e Tāne, oro mai! Tūrou!

Ka kau tāua i te awa, Pikopiko-i-whiti
Koakoa e Tāne, Te Kārae-a-Kura
Ka puta ki te whana putuputu a Tangaroa
Ki Tahiti nui, ki Tahiti roa,
Heke te Tai nui, heke te Tai roa
Ka Ītere te waka ki Araura

Ūtataki! Ūtataki e!
Ka whakapaparia te uri tūpuna, ko Taitumu tēnā!
Whenua Tuarea, whenua ākau e i e
Araura, Ūtataki whenua

E tia, e tia, e tia! E ranga, e ranga, e ranga!
Rangahaua kei whea Te Ika-a-Ngahue
Kei Tiritiri-o-te-moana i a haha!
Ka tere ki mua, ka tae ki uta rā
Ki Rarotonga, ki Ngātangiia

Te kūreitanga o aku tini waka
Kuikui, whitiwhiti ora, he whenua ipukarea!
Whitiwhiti ora, ko Aotearoa!
(Ki te urunga, ki te moenga!)
Whitiwhiti ora, ko Aotearoa - taku ipukarea!

Ki te takotoranga i takoto ai te waka
Tainui e, hi!

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