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July 2022 Release Māori Mythos

Added 2022-06-29 23:04:41 +0000 UTC

This month we'll be crashing the waves with our surfing release of Māori Mythos, it is the remote oral history of pre-colonized New Zealand.

For those who are not familiar with Maori, they are fantastic tales relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pre-European Māori, often involving gods and demigods. Māori tradition concerns more folkloric legends often involving historical or semi-historical forebears. Both categories merge in whakapapa to explain the overall origin of the Māori and their connections to the world in which they lived.

Māori had yet to invent a writing system before European contact, beginning in 1769, so they had no method to permanently record their histories, traditions, or mythologies. They relied on oral retellings memorized from generation to generation.