According to the sign, Māui “discovered” the North Island. Kupe circumnavigated the country around 1250. A priest buried his sons along the Hawke’s Bay coastline to ensure plentiful sea life.
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These are traditional Māori stories. They are part of cultural heritage.
But they are not historical events supported by evidence.
Yet here they are, given precise-sounding dates and placed on a timeline alongside verifiable events such as the arrival of Captain Cook in 1769 and the signing of the Treaty in 1840. To a visitor or school child reading this, the message is clear: legend and history are being presented as the same thing.
That isn’t education. - it’s myth-making dressed up as history.
No serious historian would treat Greek myths about Zeus or Norse stories about Thor as historical timelines. But in New Zealand, councils increasingly present tribal traditions as literal history — and expect the public not to question it.
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Respect culture? Of course.
But public institutions should not be turning mythology into official history boards. That isn’t respect for history, Māori or otherwise. It’s simply rewriting the past to fit modern ideology.
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1 comment:
Mythology became the truth in the minds of woke Councilors as they became saturated in the indoctrination inflicted on them by Maori.
Virtually the same as the officials during the Third Reich who rolled over and accepted the Aryan Master Race indoctrination.
Shame on our elected and non-elected administration for allowing themselves to be bullied into corrupting the future of their children and grandchildren.
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