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History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast

In this “unashamedly homegrown” podcast we tell the story of our islands from the time before people

Episodes

Total: 160

This episode is a pretty special one! I am joined by Donna Kerridge, a rongoā Māori practitioner and

To fit with our recent episode on creatures from Māori folklore, here is a story involving the tūreh

As we hurtle towards the first major shift in the content of HANZ I thought this would be a good tim

111 - Nature's Pharmacy

2023/5/19

Today we have a one off special episode all about rongoā Māori, medicine! We discuss how spiritualit

Down here in Aotearoa it is the spooky season of autumn so here is a fun little episode all about gh

109 - Beyond the Veil

2023/4/21

We venture into Rarohenga as discuss what happens when a person passes into the next life, how a com

108 - Futurama

2023/4/7

Today we will discuss more about the practicalities of religion, specifically karakia, divination, m

107 - Tapu Tohunga

2023/3/24

We move away from talking darectly about the gods to discuss how tapu was navigated and talk a bit m

106 - Generous Gods

2023/3/10

We move down the tiers of gods to talk about some of the less powerful but more influential deities

105 - Lord on High

2023/2/24

We have mentioned a couple of times over the last few episodes a Supreme God of the pantheon but hav

104 - War in Heaven

2023/2/10

We follow on from the events of the separation of Rangi and Papa to look at the various godly wars t

103 - Tāne and the Bois

2023/1/26

In this episode we start our discussion on Māori religion! I realise this may be a slightly contenti

After his adventures in Episode 98, Tāwhaki lives a long and prosperous life but his final journey l

I am currently writing the next set of episodes so to tide you over for the next wee while I invited

We made it! Triple digits! To celebrate this amazing occasion I got some of my podcast friends to co

It's that time of year again! The Forest and Bird competition to see who is Aotearoa's Bird of the Y

98 - Tāwhaki the Bold

2022/10/7

We tell the story of Tāwhaki, a fairly famous demi-god like figure in Te Ao Māori. In this episode w

In our final addendum to the Speight's episodes, we talk about the West Coast Beer Boycott which we

Today we talk about what has probably had the biggest impact on Aotearoa's drinking culture, the (so

As a sort of epilogue to our Speight's episodes we are delving into the prohibition movement a littl