Origins – Season 1
2020
3 Episodes
Episodes
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S01E01
Search for Hawaiki
Scotty Morrison explores the origins of the Māori people, visiting the Wairau Bar site which could be the first community in Aotearoa. Scotty tries to locate his hawaiki, his homeland, in the Pacific, but is hawaiki a real place or just a concept?
15 Sept 202044m
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S01E02
Birth of Polynesia
Scotty learns how early Pākehā researchers got the origins of Māori so wrong. He is surprised to find that several traditional folktales in Samoa are replicated in Māori culture and he makes a shock personal discovery at an ancient Vanuatu urupa.
22 Sept 202044m
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S01E03
Ancient Homelands
Series Finale: Scotty travels to Ethiopia to explore the place that is said to be the origin of us all, and he visits the Cook Islands - the stepping off point for waka heading to Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.
29 Sept 202045m