Atlas plate · Te Arawa oral tradition
The Swim to Mokoia
The flute crosses the lake. She swims.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Owhata
Between
rank, a family that did not want the match
Toward
Mokoia Island
Lake Rotorua, traditional placement
Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.
- From
- Owhata, on the shore
- Toward
- Mokoia Island
- Between
- Lake Rotorua
- Distance
- a swim, not a voyage
- Obstacle
- rank, a family that did not want the match
- Beloved
- Tūtānekai
- Approximate route
- the water between shore and island in Te Arawa telling
- What stands between them
- the lake, which is still a lake, and a story that still belongs to a people