The Maori Division Of Time

Author : Elsdon Best
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Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book The Maori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Maori Division of Time In his interesting work entitled Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattleways A.J. Hubbard wrote as follows: Early man naturally measured the year from the ripening of the crops of one year to the corresponding period in the succeeding year.

Author : Elsdon Best
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ISBN 13 : 9781290951715
Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book The Maori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Elsdon Best
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Total Pages : 51 pages
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Download or read book The Maori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780477013253
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Download or read book The Maori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Maori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Māori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Māori Division of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Måaori and Polynesion measures of time including months of the year and phases of the moon.

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ISBN 13 : 9781717066237
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book The Maori Divisioin of Time written by Elsdon Best and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introductory. THE Polynesian system of division of time was crude and incomplete. It contains, however, elements of interest, for it was probably brought from the old homeland of the race in the far west. Moreover, it possesses an evolutionary interest, for we see in the primitive time-measurement of the Maori the rude system from which our accurate one has been developed. It seems by no means improbable tNhat the two systems sprang from a common source, and it is probable that its place of origin lay in the far-off regions of southern Asia, in India, or the ancient Land of the Two Rivers. From whatever region the ancestors of the Maori may have wandered in long past centuries, it is clear that their knowledge of arts and sciences must have been but elementary when they settled in the isles of the Pacific. Also it is evident that such crude knowledge became fossilized in this region. Dwelling in small communities in isles of small area, cut off from communion with more advanced peoples, the Polynesians must have lived for many centuries in much the same stage of culture as they had been when they first entered the Pacific. The Maori of New Zealand followed in the footsteps of many other divisions of mankind with regard to the commencement of the year. His year commenced at the beginning of winter, after his harvesting operations had concluded. It would appear that some change was made in the Polynesian system when immigrants from that region settled here in New Zealand, for we are told by several writers that the Polynesian year commenced in December with the evening rising of the Pleiades. In his interesting work entitled Neolithic Dew-ponds and Cattle-ways, A. J. Hubbard wrote as follows: "Early man naturally measured the year from the ripening of the crops of one year to the corresponding period in the succeeding year. Thanks to the investigations of Sir Norman Lockyer and Mr. Penrose, it has perhaps been established that this system of measuring time gave the early part of May as a starting-point for the year in ancient Egypt, as it had been in Chaldea in a still more remote period." Another authority, however, states that the Egyptian year commenced with the cosmic rising of Sirius, about the middle of July....

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Download or read book The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori written by Elsdon Best and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: