The Lore of the Whare-wananga: Or Teachings of the Maori College on Religion, Cosmogony, and History

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The Maori texts in this 1913-15 publication were written down over fifty years earlier by W.H. Whatahoro, acting as scribe for senior Maori elders. Whatahoro himself assisted the retired government surveyor Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) with the accompanying English translation. Volume 1 focuses on the gods and creation.