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Story: Whakapapa – genealogy

Te Ao whakapapa

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Te Ao whakapapa

This whakapapa is one of the creation whakapapa and shows the development of the day (te ao).

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Source: Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its inhabitants. London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 1855, p. 21

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Rāwiri Taonui, Whakapapa – genealogy – Whakapapa of creation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/whakapapa/30894/te-ao-whakapapa (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 3 May 2011, updated 1 July 2015.