ABSTRACT
Above ‘marae-roa’, the vast ocean expanse, the stars in the constellation of Te Waka o Tamarereti, the Canoe of Tamarereti, are placed so that they protect each other from the jostling of their two elders, the Sun and Moon, and so do not fall from the breast of Rangi, the Sky Parent. Beneath their friendly gaze, the broad sea-roads led from the motherland to the red sunrise. 1
