iwi greatest builders in the world ever

IWI ARE THE PYRAMID BUILDERS






























Mesopotamia

For an explanation of the origin of the pyramids, other massive stone structures found around the world like the megalithic ziggurat of assyria, and the möai in easter island then this book will give some indication of where they came from and not only that who was responsible for building them. This book will also explain where the thought that iwi are the greatest constructionist builders the planet and humanity has ever seen came from. So gaining an understanding of the great building skills of iwi is very important, if we are to see clearly that what is stated here is so. So to find any evidence of iwi building expertise we have to look firstly at the great pyramids of Egypt as this is one of those sources of an origin of which we seek that is widely known and referred to on a regular basis. We will also look to legends and myths regarding the whence of Iwi as a people, which for the purposes of this discussion and study is important in that if we are able to determine where or what country they were in at a particular time then the corresponding construction of the massive structures they left behind would be evident. As to what has been analysed, discussed and determined previously here we will look at what Hohepa Te Rake relayed to Ettie Rout in her great book “Iwi



Symbolism” (1926). The legends as they pertain to iwi building skills and which was well recorded in her book shows where to look if you want to find written, carved, drawn and scratched into the records of our ancestors and now our minds the workings behind the building of these huge structures which have been found in every continent of the world. Hidden amongst these recorded messages of great building projects constructed by the ancestors of iwi, the present indigenous peoples of aotearoa, were recorded on slabs of rock, wooden books, tablets of stone, trees and were in fact everywhere. What this shows also is that these were found everywhere that iwi are supposed to have traveled. Recordings of their building skills have been found in amongst Egyptian hieroglyphics carved onto stone walls on the sides of structures found all over south America etc. Of particular interest is the evidence that has been found on cave walls (see wwwngaitahu.com ‘Rock Art’) on megalithic structures (see: Wiseman. Ross: 1998) on farms, on trees in forests, in overgrown inaccessible rocky places some have even been found on parchments of paper-like substances similar to paper or papyrus. I will with the interpretations given by Te Rake, be able to show which buildings iwi had built and what methods they used and this will also show the whereabouts of Iwi, where they came from and also what path they followed. We can do this by acknowledging the fact that it was Iwi that built the Pyramids of Egypt Assyria and Mesopotamia (Rout: 1926: 146: 156: 237). According to te rake the legends also show how they did this, from which we can see why Iwi were considered the race that all humanity descends from. Te rake understood that from his interpretation of the inscriptions that are discussed here, show that the pyramids in Egypt were built by our ancestors as were the ones found in Iberia, Libyia, Caucassus, Russia, Cuba, Mehiko, Yucatan, Peru, Venezuela, Rapanui, Hawai’I, Hamoa, Rarotonga etc (Rout: 1926:134). Some were dedicated to the sun god ‘Ra’ and others to the moon God ‘Te Ao Marama’ others were built for the Wahine Tapairu, some were built to observe planetary phenomena, to navigate the stars with, some were for ceremonial purposes, for birthdays, death piers, for multiple situations. This indicates that Iwi were probably the builders of the Pyramids in Egypt they are one and the same as these are similar to Iwi theology, this is in direct reference to the evolving universe and Iwi as a living breathing entity. Te Rake also states that the pyramids were made in somewhat the same way that concrete is mixed today. Some of the pyramids were composed of desert sand depending on which continent they were in; mixed with a small quantity of sacred earth (i.e. mud from a riverbed) green bulrushes (Wiwi) and water. The builders received all the materials, required to create the pyramids, on site like sand, the main ingredient, mud as cement and rushes for reinforcing. Which were mixed with water into large oblong rectangular baths, from which the mixture was run into moulds the size of the blocks required on the site of work. When the blocks had set to the satisfaction of the Architects, the moulds were removed and by means of rollers and levers were placed in position, close to the setting moulds. The mixing platforms on the pyramid itself were moved upwards, the hauling up of the baskets of sand and river mud, and of the bundles of rushes was accomplished, by means of pulleys working with endless belts.



Figure 5. One method used to haul large quantities of material to a great height[1]

The only strenuous work was getting the blocks into the correct position; the distance the blocks had to be moved was very small, and easily traversed by the rollers. Where the huge weights that were hewn out of rock and stone, were concerned these had to be hauled up, pulleys generally did this job. By dropping from a greater height an equal weight, created a counterbalance, thus allowing in some instances the moving of huge masses of material[2].
Generally the time occupied in building particular pyramids placed them at approximately three jubilees or, three periods of 49 years, which, added to the rest years would mean a little over one hundred and fifty years. Others of the pyramids around the world such as in Mehiko took 5 jubilees to construct about two hundred and fifty years in all while others took up to between 500 to 1000 years to build. With this occurring finally by today of there being representations of these mammoth structures on every continent and under every ocean of the planet. While they were building many of the pyramids some hewn and built out of solid blocks of stone, plus whilst building, Iwi were also busy with expansionist expeditions to North and South America, and the Pacific.

From the great wealth Iwi were able to attain from cultivation the formation of armies was possible, and before long Iwi had taken over through colonization all corners of the globe. For a further examination of the comparability’s of Pyramids, read Jairazbhoy. R (1974) “Ancient Egyptians and Chinese in America”, and Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, (1810-1895). So that if what this theory claims is true then there must be an element of truth that Iwi were responsible for the building of the pyramids of Egypt.

Herodotus

In trying to trace the path Iwi traveled whilst in Mesopotamia or the middle east we will look at the book “History of Herodotus” which is concerned with the ancient histories of Mesopotamia, in his writings Herodotus could not deny the existence of a race of people who appeared out of nowhere not only with the art of cultivation they appeared also with a form of centralized governance. They built cities and huge pyramid like structures, which Hohepa Te Rake believes are no different to those recorded in Aotearoa by Elsdon Best, who has done a good study on the mountainous structures Te Iwi constructed over the last two millennium in Aotearoa. These can be easily compared to the structures that may have been built in the way that has just been described in Egypt and in fact all the sites I mention in this study.

Herodotus in the fifth century BC was a Greek writer from Halicarnassus in Asia Minor and was referred to as the ‘father of history’. The history he eventually wrote was lively and informative; he had collected material carefully, in Egypt, working through interpreters, or gleaning his facts from Greek residents in the country. Herodotus collected a miscellaneous body of information, noting down tales about the ancient kings of Egypt, he recorded Lists of Kings and Pharaohs, which were preserved mnemonically in temples, in royal archives; if the list was properly prepared, it contained lengths of reigns as well as names. Nevertheless, when a list was carved on the walls of a Temple it only contained names, such lists scarcely provided the bare skeleton of a history, especially as they were usually edited. Before Hieroglyphics were deciphered the King Lists, could not be used by modern writers on Egyptian history. They relied mostly on the work of Herodotus and of other Greek writers who inserted sections on Egypt into their histories of the ancient world. There was however, another work compiled directly from Middle Eastern or and Egyptian sources, including King lists, which was altogether more trust-worthy as a source. This was the history written by ‘Manetho’, an Egyptian priest, who lived in the Third Century BC. Modern scholars did not at first regard its abbreviated form and in this form, it did not possess the narrative qualities of Herodotus’ history. In due course, however modern scholars began to see that Manetho’s history, could increasingly be proved reliable as Hieroglyphic records were discovered and translated. Manetho began his history with an account of Egypt’s earliest history when it was thought that, the Gods and then the demi-gods ruled the land.
For the story of the time when human rulers reigned over the land of Egypt, Manetho organized the Kings into groups, which he called dynasties. From the beginning to the end of Egyptian History there were thirty dynasties (James: 1972: 10) the name of the first king of the first dynasty[3], was Menes[4]. He qualified for this position because he was the first king to establish his rule over the whole of Egypt[5] Manetho’s thirty dynasties are very convenient divisions, and are firmly established as the framework, of any account of ancient Egyptian history. Any material about Ancient Egypt will contain copious references to the most important dynasties, and also to certain periods of Egyptian history when it was supposed, the light of Egyptian Civilization burned its brightest. These periods are the old, middle, and new Kingdoms. The area that is of the most interest to this study is the Pre pre-Dynastic period and the 5000 BC to 3100 BC period, hence the principal reason I am discussing this part of the world, is that if what Te Rake is saying in Part iv, sec 111, of Ettie Rout’s book[6], “Te Iwi Symbolism”, is positively identified as a possibility, then these dynasties can be compared Philologically, Linguistically to that of Mehiko, North America Canada, Alaska, South America, Egypt, Assyria, and Aotearoa. Also around that time the Te Iwi form of governance was gaining momentum and becoming more powerful. However the mounting evidence supplied by Manetho, Herodotus, Hohepa Te Rake and Waikato Tairea indicates that regardless of the spaciousness of time, the historians criteria, we can at least give students of Ancient Te Iwi Civilizations an Indication as to what avenues they should study to develop this hypothesis.


Menes of Egypt

It was Menes the ancient ancestor of Te Iwi who began the first dynasty being the Uniting King or Ariki, that united the two independent Kingdoms of Upper Egypt and lower Egypt. At this time (3100 BC) the Egyptians first began formalizing writing. According to European scientists a peoples ancient history is only determinable by the estimate of when they invented a written language. There has not been any evidence so far to suggest that they already had this knowledge, Hohepa Te Rake believes that they (Egyptian people) did have the skill of writing and that Aperahama the descendent of Iwi who was around at the time of the Menes dynasty (3000 BC to 2865 BC) was aware of this. Nevertheless, it is also interesting to note that Te Iwi in this instance had already expanded considerably so it was normal for large groups of peoples to want to take account of how many of them there were hence the need to keep records. In addition, it is inconceivable that one person was given, or discovered the skill of writing; it had to have developed over centuries of trial and error, which would place writing within the Egyptian and Iwi context well before Aperahama. Also to excel at cultivation on such a large-scale required administrative and record keeping skills that were possibly given to Iwi when Tane ascended to the uppermost heavens to acquire the baskets of knowledge, in which the art of writing was but one. To question whether they had the skill of writing is part of the whole testability of this study, in that these questions are really questions of intelligence, status and class. Migration legends, stories of long sea voyages, lasting generations residing in other parts of the world for thirty generations or so then moving again (Rout: 1926: 15). This poses another question as to how they survived the five epochs of glaciations and un-glaciation[7] (Wiseman: 1998, Pre-Tasman Explorers). They lived with the Ant people for millennia under ground, until the waters had receded then after mating with the Jaguar[8] they cohabited with the Tiger. This story is also found in the myths and legends of the Kwakalutl of west Canada and west North America also the Cherokee, and the Inca of Peru have similar stories, it has also been referred to in waiata tawhito and karakia of Te Iwi.

Aperahama

Of course there were other peoples living, fighting, and organizing themselves, well before. As there are now mountains of evidence to suggest that they did have the knowledge of writing then there has been a lot of speculation as to where this skill was thought to have come from. Hence, from this point the discussion will deal with the story that is given by Te Iwi, who Hohepa Te Rake claims are the children of Apera-Hama, and Sarai. This refers to the time when Aperahama was approached by the Supreme one (Genesis: xii, 1) saying to him,

“I will make you a great nation, I will bless thee, and make thy name great.”

It was from Aperahama according to Hohepa Te Rake that the twelve tribes of Israel descended whom Te Rake states to be the twelve tribes that had migrated from Mesopotamia. After the wrath of the supreme one had hastened the departure of Te Iwi, to the Four Corners of the globe (Rout: 1926: 15). Two Iwi remained to become the people of the Near, the Middle East and most of Central Europe, as it is stated from hence also descended the nations that today populate most of the Northern Hemisphere. This point of departure is assigned in the bible to the complete historical development of which the children of Israel was at once the agent and like students of ancient peoples the witness. It was thought that the people of Aperahama were a small nomadic tribe, who wandered like many others, across the plains and steppes. They became the source of a destiny so fraught with significance[9] a destiny that is barely today being discovered, but thanks to those scholars who search for this knowledge, we must be better off, for it. The distant heirs of the Ancestors would come to understand it as a fact that cannot be explained, by the logic of history: the will of Io (Jahweh) must be the only explanation. Never, for two thousand years, was this mystical event called into question. In their moments of deepest distress, in their most misguided hours, the remote descendents of the inspired ones called to mind the promise for comfort, or repentance. On the act of faith of Aperahama, three religions were established: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. That far-reaching event, the departure of a clan from Ur towards the hills of Haran, is a great moment in history. Particularly for Te Iwi, and if we no longer believe, as Renan did, that Aperahama is the fabled “Peter Orcham” of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. Then he remains according to the sacred name that he was later to bear- Aperahama, to be

“the father of a multitude of people”.

According to Daniel Rops (1949: 13), the father of Aperahama, ‘Terah’, worshipped and served other gods (Joshua: xxiv, 2), and similarly to Terah, Iwi believed that having multiple gods, was not unusual which is an indication that Te Iwi came from Mesapotamia, recognisable through this practice of multiplicities of Gods. One such God was the moon god Nannar–Sin representations of which were excavated from hundreds of archeological sites all over Mesopotamia. Among the many relics found were carved representations, one in particular was in the form of a bearded prince whose beard and hair, carved in blue stone, with a strangely metallic look, has a remarkably polynesian look to it. This was the god of the luminous night, and the crescent beside him figured as the barge of the Euphrates with its Tauihu, in which he voyaged towards the sky. From this lunar belief, from Mesopotamian polytheism, Apera-hama resolved to break away, when he heard the nameless deity bid him:
“Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house” (Genesis: xii, 1).
At the time of Judith, when the Assyrian Holofernes asked for information about Israel, he was told that this people had abandoned the religion of its forefathers, a religion as Hohepa Te Rake states is a simile of Te Iwi beliefs that honored many gods. The Israelites only worshipped the one god, who had ordered them to leave the country of the Chaldees and go live in Canaan. Therefore I believe Iwi are not the descendents of the patriarchs though in a sense they are, in that the difference between christianity and Te Iwi religion is that the christians believe in one god, and Te Iwi believe in a multitude of gods. Which would account for the proliferation of gigantic Pyramidic structures, and fantastic belief systems found in all corners of the world Te Iwi have reportedly been.

Origination

In referring to these belief systems we are pointed to a place of extreme importance for this study, that is the “Origination” of Iwi and what its role is in how Te Iwi envision themselves in the 21st century and beyond. The role of studies like this when discussing origination theories especially pertaining to Te Iwi, requires that we also study the cultural beliefs, mythology, Traditions, and all other aspects of Te Iwi that can be found. What Te Rake asserts though is that there were originally four different tribes or Iwi, the Brown, the Black, the Red and the White Iwi, who resided in a far off place vicariously called Hawaiki-Nui, these were the descendents and kin of Apera-Hama, the place Te Rake suggests where Te Iwi originally began, Mesopotamia. After, the split of the people of Apera-Hama, he and his son Israel who begat twins sons Ia-Kopa and Ehau, where from whom descended the four Iwi we arrive at the time when this place became hostile to them. An event occurred that caused all the different tribes related to Apera-Hama to break off into four different parts of the globe, which has been referred to in the bible as the time of the Tower of Babel. When the supreme one afflicted the people, with different languages that had come about because of their penchant for constructing huge monolithic structures we are discussing, attempting it is assumed to ascend to the heavens, to the place of the Gods (Genesis: 10). Creationists and Theocrat’s have responded to the similarity of the biblical story and the story that is discussed here by Te Rake (1926: 15) as Judaic. However, the similarities could be coincidental or positivist, but are particularly close to be confirmation to warrant further study, the bible, which Judaism is supposedly based on has rather a general feel about it, not a clear scientific discussion, as we prefer. Similarly, the version Te Rake provides is also rather general, being as vague as the bible. However, the version Te Rake gives is closer to what Te Iwi has to say although the writer Ettie Rout certainly twisted the patriarchal aspect of what she was told by Te Rake, possibly to suit the mainly patriarchal society and audience in which she was bought up in, and used to, although in regards to the details of the directions Te Iwi went she was spot on. So that according, to her the white Iwi went to the North, the brown Iwi went to the West, the black Iwi went south and the Yellow Iwi went east[10].
These four Nations that split into the four corners of the world were kin to Aperahama, they were the black, the brown, the yellow, and the white Iwi. Their four group descendency thence came from Ha-Kopa and Ehau the twin sons of Isaac who had split into four the Iharaia or twelve tribes were whence Te Iwi and the rest of the worlds population descended, thence it is possible to trace the other three tribes. Although the twelve tribes of Iharaia are distinguishable by their warlike and creative abilities. This creativity meant some migrated to Egypt where they were commissioned to build the cities and pyramids of the Egyptians, after a time they returned to Assyria, (Rout: 1926: 3) one of these two groups went West, two nations of the last remaining group remained in Assyria (who incidentally are the people of Iraq) and the other ten groups crossed the Caucasus until they reached the Black Sea, where most turned westward and journeyed across Europe. Some stayed in the Steppes of Russia, totally dominating that area. During this journey, three of the nations broke off from the main body and either settled in the new lands they encountered or migrated in other directions towards Brittany, Norway and Greenland. Thus, it came about that only the representatives of seven nations eventually reached (Portugal) Iberia ready for the push out into the Atlantic towards the America’s.
Pre Apera-Hama 5000 BC

The mission of this race, by which monotheism was established in the world, is already implicit in the act of this Ariki, who set out to the north; Apera-Hama did not go alone. This religious reformer convinced his Whanau, and his wife Sarai to leave; he also convinced his father Terah to embark to another country at the command of an unknown god, and as though to sever all links that attached him to the life he was leaving, he took his grandson lot. When Aperahama left Ur about the year three or two thousand BC, Mesapotamia had already a history dating back fifteen hundred years. One of these beacons of light that seem in these beginnings of today’s world, to shine alone in the shadows of unformed barbarity was that of Te Iwi, the other was Egypt. Another plain of fertile lands where water nourishes vegetation and where the patient effort of generations gave to society, its first known foundation. Outside these two favored regions, it seems as though there was nothing but confused rumors and anarchy, with the creation of Crete, where, in a small island other civilizations were also coming into being. If we properly understand the principles that grouped the Iwi, in the plains of the two great rivers, we would also comprehend the impact cultivation had on these formative times, when at this period agriculture was emerging as the main occupation. Imperialism developed around this time, which was required because of the huge surplus’ that had resulted from cultivation. Also, the same thing was happening elsewhere in the world, for instance in the Yang Tse basin China, and the Ganges basin India. From this it is clear that a similar development determined the history of the land of the Nile and that of Mesopotamia, the place Te Rake calls Hawaiki Nui (Rout: 1926: 16). Therefore, Egypt as one of the places determined to be Hawaiki Nui, consists of a long valley bordered with cliffs that is filled every springtime by the rising river with astonishing regularity. This constant renewal of fertility gives to the land a stability, which its history seems to reflect. Nevertheless, although, in contact with Asia and bordering on Africa, Egypt was only a corridor to the extent to which she deems it desirable, she has never been an invasion route. In the country of the Tigris and the Euphrates, it was far otherwise. Between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean there is, on the map a group of plains flanked by a trapezium of high land in the east, the forbidding border, of the Iranian plateau dominates it. The Zagros Mountains the Anti Taurus, and the Armenian ranges form an impressive barrier in the north. To reach the Mediterranean, or Lebanon, the mountains of Palestine must be crossed. In the heart of this country, six or seven times as large as France burn one of the most terrible deserts in the world. Uninterrupted, though varying in geographical appearance, it stretches endlessly towards the south, as far as the sands of Dahna, and beyond to the stormy desert of Hadranaut. Bordering on this brazier, nature has accorded people a fringe of rich fertile land. This is the Fertile Crescent, consisting of Sediment River, the pastures of Northern Syria, and the plains of the Orontes and of the Jordan.

Mesopotamia comprises the Western, the largest part of these favored regions, as its name Implies, it is the region of the two rivers, “the between two rivers”. Similarly the Tainui whakatauaki[11] ‘He Taniwha Rau’, or, ‘on every fork in the river there is an Ariki’ indicating a stronghold on every bend of the river, surely a reference to the ancient Iwi residing between the rivers Tigris and the river Euphrates. If Egypt is as Herodotus calls it, the “gift of the Nile”, Mesopotamia is, one might say, a gift of the Tigris and the Euphrates, but a gift often contested and often revoked. Although both arise in the Armenian ranges, these two rivers are very different in character. The Tigris has steep banks and a rapid current, and its flood, beginning in March, reaches its height on June 15. However, when it overflows, too often it feeds into swamps. The Euphrates has less water and, on the border of the desert, often dries up. Its flooding is later and more gradual, and extends more regularly over its low banks. This beneficent inundation explains why nearly all the towns are situated near them. Yet, even the Euphrates cannot be compared with the Nile.
Much of the fertile soil remains beyond the high water mark of the flooding, and in order to create those eternal waters of which Hammurabi, contemporary with Aperahama, speaks, requires the use of an immense labor force to maintain the system of irrigation canals and embankments. The whole system of irrigation that the, people of four thousand years ago had built with such skill and finesse, at it’s abandonment brought the area into a state of distress, in which it lay for half a century[12]. Nevertheless, in comparison with the desert, where people are consumed by heat during the day and the cold by night, means Mesopotamia gives the impression of being a garden. Here wheat and Barley may certainly have had it’s origin, where if the supply of water does not fail, three harvests can be gathered from the soil. Here date palms grow to perfection, and the country produces honey, wine and many kinds of textiles, Sesame yields oil with a nutty flavor. The fig tree bears fruits so exquisite that they were offered only to the gods. The vines produce an excellent wine, and the tamarisk exudes a sugary gum. One can understand very well the strength of the attraction of these favored lands for Te Iwi and its neighbors.
Pre 8000 BC.

For this is the drama of Mesopotamia, and, with it, the Fertile Crescent. These rich lands are perpetual temptations to the nomads of the desert forever threatened by drought. In addition, as if internal danger were not enough, there is the covetousness of all the mountain peoples of Elam, Iran, the Upper Tigris, and the Taurus Mountains. For whom these lowlands are at once a corridor and a granary ready for pillage. There has never been a time when migrations have not mingled in that crucible, races and civilizations coming in from the desert and converging on the plains to which the neighboring mountains descend. Egypt disturbed only once or twice by invasion, has never been long in resuming the course of her stable destiny; Mesopotamia thus bears the imprint of all her conquerors.
The first civilization that Mesopotamia was to know was the product of the Sumerians, a truly remarkable race. Where they came from no one knows, Afghanistan, or Baluchistan perhaps, though Te Rake believes they ascended from the children of Aperahama. Some five thousand years ago about the year 3500 BC they were well settled in the lands of the lower Euphrates called the Shinar. They could have been Semitic, but Te Rake believes they were the Ancestors of Terah, which may account for their round, smooth skinned face, with a prominent but short nose. What of “Goudea” a typical Summerian of the xxvth century BC, of whom the Louvre has eleven statues, or the remarkable features of Queen Shub-Ad, in the British Museum, who died at “Ur” five thousand five hundred years ago. Whose, sensual lips and wide eyes seem on the point of living again, and who while still crowned in the metallic foliage, incarnates the eternal temptation and the mystery of Wahine. According to Te Rake and Daniel Rops, the Sumerians were the founders of civilization throughout Mesopotamia. They initiated methods of irrigation, agriculture, and building, they were responsible for many of the great religious myths and principles of law that are today favored by people’s worldwide. More than one of the fundamental themes of pakeha origination also has its roots in Sumeria as it has been said that the Sumerians played, for the lands of the Euphrates, the same role as the Latin race in the elaboration of occidental societies, though unlike Rome they never had the Idea of unifying the country whereas Sumer did. Each city, Ur, Lagash, Ourouk, was a tiny state ruled by an Ariki-King, or Patesi, a form of Ariki-Tanga, where the priesthood of the local Gods, would make war between these cities frequently. From this seed of feudalistic anarchy, emerged the ideologies today known as Anarchy, communism, Socialism and democracy. Neighbors profited by this incessant warring caused by monarchical anarchy from whence came the first of many waves of assaults from the desert upon the Fertile Crescent. Therefore, it is plainly obvious to me that these people were the descendents of Te Iwi, their noses were aquiline and their hair crisped. For centuries, they had occupied the land of Akkad on the Middle Euphrates where they were held in respect because of the power of their Patesi (Ahupiri) at about the year 3000 BC they started to attack, for the next two centuries, there was a Semitic expansion. At this time when Iwi were in Egypt, the king of Akkad was building the great pyramids, Sargon the Semitic elder, a gardener by trade had risen to become a great general, he conquered the Sumerian Princes after making provisions for defense against threats of Invasion from the mountain peoples by a series of campaigns in Elam. He turned to the west and advanced as far as the Mediterranean where he washed his hands conquering the “Cedars of Lebanon and the mountain of silver” the Tagus along the way. This expansion of the Twenty seventh Century; left its historic traces almost everywhere, the Phœnecians are no doubt one of the Te Iwi branches. Because, we find their colonies dating from this epoch even in the heart of Asia Minor, and Cappadocia, though westerners believe they were entirely a Semitic race, this conquest was never stabilized. The available forces were insufficient, and scarcely had the conquerors (who did not leave an army of occupation), departed when they had to come back to deal with revolts. Naram-Sin, grandson of Sargon, occupied his reign in this way. The Akkad Empire was so unstable that we find, not long after, that the first invasion from the mountains of the Guti commenced. Whose arrival disturbed Mesopotamia to such an extent that the Sumerians won back their independence and in 2500 BC, in his capital at Lagash, the Sumerian Ariki Goudea rose again to be a powerful sovereign at the time of the birth of Aperahama. Therefore, Mesopotamia presented a mosaic of little states, some Sumerian, others of Akkad origin, more or less hostile, and without political unity nevertheless, all having reached under Sumerian influence, about the same level of civilization.

A hundred and fifty years ago Emile Botta, French Consul at Mosul, had excavated the mounds that are scattered over the plains, and what prodigious horizons were opened by his discoveries! No doubt, further countless forgotten things still lie buried, awaiting the happy chance that may bring them to light. The site of Agade the capital of the great, Sargon has not yet been discovered, but we can now study the site, excavated at Ur, the birthplace of Aperahama. Since 1922, important work has been going on there, and to-day five hundred years of history, have been laid bare before our eyes. The tower of the temple, emerging from the sand where it lay buried reveals its vast foundations a whole checkerboard of houses surrounding it. In the Museums of London, Philadelphia and Baghdad, we can admire today the fabulous treasures of Ur, the wrought iron swords of Kings, the bronze helmets of soldiers, and a golden goblet that had lain against the lips of a women when it was discovered, which was a work of art of amazing beauty. The inspired migration that our Tupuna imagined as occurring at the very beginning of civilization is now seen as a relatively late event in the course of Mesopotamian History. It is evident that many of the traditions of the Terahites (the tribes named after Aperahama’s father) were of Sumerian origin. In addition, the events and customs, to which, Aperahama was to refer to later are those with which he was familiar at Ur in his earlier years. The city in his day was the city of bricks that Archæologists have discovered where supposedly the only building material available in the country was clay that was baked or dried in the sun. Imported stone was, reserved for statues of the gods and for the tablets of the laws of the Kingdom. Aperahama was to preserve the memory of the house[13] that he left, to follow god. What he left behind at Ur was all the comfort and luxury of town the fine carved furniture, the silk hangings, the embroidered garments, and the jewels and perfumes. He also left a meticulous bureaucracy, which for a thousand years at least, the Patesi of Sumer had developed, into a rigorous system of state control. The inscribed tablets of which there are libraries filled to capacity, and towards which the anarchical nomadic descendents of Aperahama were to show to have invented.

The religion of Mesopotamia was of multiple gods, and the deified forces of nature, there was Enlil the god of the Air; Anou, of the Sky; Enki, the god of the life giving water. They received offerings of honey, wine, date cakes and human sacrifice, the later was practiced in honor of the gods and their representatives the Ariki. In the burial grounds of “Ur” the excavating Archæologists found an amazing spectacle: the bodies of the Kings were covered with pearls, gold, lapis, and agate, with whom are also buried seventy-four sacrificial servants that may have died from poison. Renan says that Aperahama’s glory lies in the substitution made by him of a ram for a person, in sacrifice; the discoveries at Ur lead us to think there may have been some truth to this view.
A particular historical event may, however have had a more direct influence on the determination of where and why Iwi originated from Mesopotamia. In the XXII century, that is the century before that unto which Aperahama was born was marked by great events of whose course we are only now beginning to have some idea. The appearance in history, of the Aryan race who came from a region that is not easy to identify-probably the continental isthmus that stretches from the Baltic to the Caspian. Which was perhaps at this time already, for them, only one stage in their immense displacement impelled by motives even more obscure such as want of food, change of climate, or perhaps spontaneous imperialism? Multitudes of people, speaking almost the same language, poured southward, about the year 2150 BC. The migration reached the borders of Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Iran; we meet these people under the name of the Hittites, the Kassites, the Mitannians and others. Another Branch moved towards Europe; it was the Achæans that installed themselves in the Greek Peninsula a hundred years later, at this time, the displacement of masses of these people in distant countries did not yet trouble the ancient civilizations. In the oasis of the Nile, the Pharaohs of the Thebaid, having re-established order after the strange social crisis that brought down the ancient empire, were occupied with magnificent developments, which characterized Egypt under the Senousrit dynasty. In the shelter of his island, Minos the King of Crete, was building the first places of Plæstos and Cnossos, his tables were served with superb eggshell china. It was not until two or three years later, that these stable kingdoms were to be shaken by the Aryan tidal wave. Nevertheless, Mesopotamia, nearer to the countries from which these nations were advancing, was already feeling the first shock.
The great wave of Semitic expansion of Sargon’s Empire towards the Mediterranean now as it were, ebbed back and forth. From the country of the Amorites (now Syria) came other waves, perhaps under Aryan pressure, where their chiefs, had some conception of the peril and sought to establish a Mesopotamian unity to resist it. The attempt of Hammurabi, greatest of these Amorite kings, is a curious one; his ancestors, had without interruption been proceeding for a century to raise themselves to power at the expense of the petty kings of Akkad and Sumeria. Hammurabi came to the throne about the year 2000 BC, continued the work, and carried it much further. His aim was to unify all these people and to give them both an outer and an inner organic entity. He brought about a religious revolution, dispossessed the ancient gods, and installed another, ‘Marduk’. His city, Babylon, was the capital of all the lands of the Euphrates. In the fortieth year of his reign, he caused to be carved in stone the “decisions of equity” that code now preserved in the Louvre, which is the summary of Ancient Sumerian traditions.
Hammurabi was one of the greatest figures of his Epoch, however we ask though did he succeed in his aims? Well not entirely, for this artificial unity could not resist the attacks of the Aryans whom a hundred years later, sacked Babylon. Nevertheless, the language of Babylon was henceforth to be the diplomatic language in use from Asia Minor, the Amorites and as far as Egypt, where its influences impressed deeply upon the history of civilization this prodigious attempt certainly encountered fierce resistance. The full list of cities sacked, by Hammurabi were long, Mari never recovered, when Hammurabi the conqueror being near death, the residents of Ur attempted a revolt. His son razed its walls to the ground, and its population consequently carried into captivity. So we wonder to what extent was Aperahama’s decision to leave the country where he had lived, due to such an insupportable political tyranny? Whereby in order to convince Terah in his old age that it was better to go, Aperahama must have found good reason in the policy of the King of Babylon, who knew that the attempt to impose religious unity in the cult of Marduk did not decide the man who carried in his heart the certainty of one god.
In a society whose complexity is now becoming clear to us, what place was held by the little clan of Terah whose historical significance was to be so significant? Maybe it was Amorite in origin, Ezekial in accusing Jerusalem, said, “your father was an Amorite!” the impression that we gain from reading the eleventh and twelfth chapters of genesis is that this group of people must have been in some sense apart. Were they a family who had but recently arrived as Communities, who retained strong traditions of the period when the Semites camped in tents in the desert. In North Africa, there is a tribe the Mozabites, who practice the same sort of Moslem Protestantism, who live in this way. Occasionally settling in towns of the coast, but always in the end setting out again towards the pentapolis of Gardaia the west even the Jews retain the memory of a tradition according to which they would seem to have served as mercenaries and merchants in Babylon before the departure for Canaan. In any case Aperahama like his ancestors decided to leave Ur so took to the road again. Also Asia witnessed from China to the Bosphorous, many more migrations in these spaces, it is as though people were blown, hither and thither by the wind, like the sand. Among all these waves moving within the Mesopotamian basin, Aperahama’s clan appears only as a ripple. As do Te Iwi descendents of Abraham, according to Te Rake (Rout: 1926: 18). As such Iwi were also part of this migration, but for now, we are concerned with the migratory route taken by Aperahama, which we ask what route did he follow? The bible tells us: from Ur to Haran, from south to North, up the Euphrates[14]. Haran is situated in the range of hills that comes before the Anti-Taurus range, from which flows a tributary of the Euphrates, the Balikh. This entire region forms an important route; Turks and crusaders fought in it for Edessa it must have been one of those places where caravans rested, in order to cross the Fertile Crescent, as the desert is virtually impassable, it is impossible not to go through Haran. It must have been a sort of Babylonian trading center, where merchandise was exchanged, also myths and ideas. The great prophet Balaam, much later, was said to have come from there (Numbers xxiii, 7). For the choice of that city there may have been religious reasons: for the same moon god was worshipped there as at Ur.
It was in any case a country likely to attract a nomad with his flocks and herds. Fairly well, watered with some rain, and irrigated by mountain streams, there is grass and, in spring, flora in abundance. White marguerites, crimson tulips and yellow crocus form a speckled carpet; caper trees sway their mauve tufts; and tall flower stalks of rose-colored blossoms spring up everywhere. This fragrant steppe land is already dry in May, but flocks can always find pasture. Haran, in the hollow of its hills, was then, no doubt, as it is now, a little town of brick houses, lime washed, and with tiny domes (for every house is domed). Their stay in Haran had a profound influence on the history of the Terahites. Through the period of the Patriarchs, this country of Aram-Narahaim, or Paddan-Aram, was to be their real fatherland. They used to go back to find wives among members of the tribe who had remained in Ur. Ripeka and Rachel came from there. When, long after, the Israelites spoke of their ancestry among themselves, they used to begin with the words; “A wanderer from Syria was my father”. In all the crossroads of their history, we find these wandering tribes; their name indicates the great tide of which the Terahite were only a little wave. They had spread everywhere over a long period, their language was finally to become dominant in the Syrian Palestine area. The period of Haran there was no doubt, it was spent in this manner as the “Syrian wanderers” outside the city-gates, in a temporary encampment. However this was only to be a transitional stage, Tera Aperahama’s father had died, now head of the family, Aperahama, the inspired one had set out again. Knowing that he had not yet reached the country where the destiny of his people was to be accomplished. He made towards the south, the land of Canaan, and the other point of the Fertile Crescent. This country between Syria and Palestine has at all times, throughout history been a corridor. From north to south, invasions have passed it; it is the inevitable route from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. The Canaanites, few in number, occupied only their fortified cities, and never dreamed of interfering with these migrations. This first entry into Canaan is not described. At Sichem where Aperahama received his vision was a confirmation of the promise made to him by Jahweh, who had spoken to him, “Unto thy seed will I give this land”, (Genesis: xii, 7). From this time, the destiny of this people was to be bound to that country, Canaan now became “the promised land” though it was to be seven or eight hundred years before they settled there; there is no record of any other race having taken so long to establish themselves, Including Te Iwi. After a pause “on the east of Bethel, on the mountain” the people of Aperahama went from one encampment to another until they reached the southern extremity of Palestine, the Negeb whose, grim solitude stretches from the mountains of Judah to Sinai[15]. In such circumstances the, invariable solution for nomads, is to lead their flocks to better pasture: this difference in fertility between adjacent areas could have been one of the main causes of Asiatic migrations as not far away lay Egypt, rich and inexhaustible. Although the social structure of the kingdom of the Pharaohs was infinitely more closed than that of Canaan, this fact did not prevent wandering tribes from insinuating themselves into it. At about this period, a tomb of the xiith dynasty shows us a whole Bedouin caravan in the land of the Nile, Wahine, Tane, tamariki and their stock. Moreover, the text informs us that a certain Ibsha and his clan had given the officials of Egypt some trouble. The agricultural people of the Algerian coast regarded the descent of these nomads of the high plateau, threatening their ripening crops, with no less anxiety.
During a stay in Egypt, an incident took place that was to be repeated several times during the early history of the Israelites. It throws light on the physical appearance of the Semites, and on the concept of sin. Pharaoh having observed the beauty of Sarai took her. Aperahama, who feared that he would be regarded as an obstacle, to the desire of the Pharaoh for his wife, and made away with, gave out that she was his sister. As the kings’ favorite, Sarai gave Aperahama many gifts thus Pharaoh, without knowing it, was an adulterer. Jahweh smote him; with a sort of malady, whose results he was informed could infect one’s children. Horrified, Pharaoh gave Sarai back and banished the whole tribe from his country without further punishment. At all events the stay in Egypt must have been of an unknown duration, and left no mark on the people of Aperahama, maybe not as long as at the time of Joseph to Moses. Of the two great civilizations that were to form Te Iwi, so far only one, that of the Euphrates, had left its traces. Aperahama and his people returned to Canaan, to Bethel. They lived in tents, as before, the incidents that occurred at this time were those of a Nomadic life. There was a sharing of pasture between two divisions of the clan. The flock of Aperahama had multiplied since the stay in Egypt, and Lot, his nephew, who had accompanied Aperahama during the whole migration, had many of his own and the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, as such there were quarrels between the herdsmen of Aperahama and Lot. A division was agreed upon, Lot traveled towards the lower Jordan, at that time it was as rich as Egypt itself, it was a veritable garden, for the catastrophe that was to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah had not yet taken place.

Seeds of Empire

Aperahama moved his tents to the south, into a wooded country of trees and brushwood, to the oaks of Mamre not far from Hebron. There were also raids and counter-raids. The region of the dead sea was at the time governed by five petty kings who owed some sort of allegiance to more powerful kings in Mesopotamia. From one side of the Fertile Crescent to the other, there was exercised a sort of centralizing authority. Dissatisfied with their Canaanite vassals, the Kings of the Euphrates planned a punitive expedition. It has been suggested that, Hammurabi was one of the four leaders of this expedition, together with Amraphel, King of Shinar, who must have had with him Sumerian Elamites, and even Hittite allies, the forces from Asia Minor. Aperahama’s clan was not involved in this affair but it seems that, having suppressed their vassals, Amraphel and his allies carried off Lot and his people, together with the deported populations. Hearing this, Aperahama planned a counter-attack. He armed his men, three hundred and eighteen of them collecting other allies and followed the tracks, of the of the victorious caravan. At Dan, just as the Mesopotamians were about to leave Palestine, no longer fearing anything, Aperahama attacked by night, recaptured Lot and his people and drove off the people towards Damascus. There was nothing, to be sure, in this Nomadic existence that was out of the ordinary. The tribes of Transjordania and Palmyra lived in most respects a very similar life. One small clan was barely different from the other, speaking virtually the same language. Events occurred again and again to recall the promise given to Aperahama by the Supreme one, “the mystical gift”. When Aperahama returned after his victory, to the ordinary site of his encampment, a man came towards him and blessed him, bringing him bread and wine and addressing him in these words: “blessed be Aperahama of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth.” This was Melchizedek, a mysterious personage, about whom we know nothing, “without father, or mother or ancestry, whose life has neither beginning nor end”. As St Paul said, but “in the Image of the Son of God” by his name, which signifies king of Justice, and whose town, Salem, signifies peace, and is no other, as Egyptian documents prove, than Jerusalem. A prophetic coincidence, and a new sign from God. Did Melchizedek know that the decisive hour for Aperahama was near? A new period was beginning in the life of this ancient one, in which the Atua was to multiply proofs. When questioning the Supreme one, considering that his wife at that time had not yet been given the gift of reproduction so, Aperahama questioning God about the fulfilling of the promise, since their escape from Egypt. In that particular case it seems that Aperahama was able to communicate directly with God so he asked why his wishes were not being obeyed. Always he had wanted an heir. God, Te Atua, said to him, “look now towards the heavens and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them, and he said unto him so shall thy seed be”. A promise that has agreed totally with what Hohepa Te Rake has said, the link through Whakapapa allows Te Iwi, the freedom to assert their position in society. Whereby today in 1999, the earth’s population has now reached 6 billion. Te Iwi can rightly claim sovereignty over this land over this planet. Never as owners, only as Kaitiaki. The Kaitiaki are left in various areas to consume, providing ready made consumers of Papatuanuku, the only reason why people such as ourselves are able to do what we are really sent here to this planet to do which is that we are sent here to destroy the planet. We are sent by, the nothing, we are the nothing we are at one with Nature; and although we are nature we are here to consume her, our physiognomy is designed for this matrix. Earth is but a food source, people are meant to cause her discomfort, as it is Iwi view the universe as a food source, people are a food source. This very fact has separated east from west, since the time of Aperahama. Tairawhiti, ki Te Tai a uru, in these times the camps are, democracy versus communism, capitalism versus human, and environmental rights. Even Human rights are a slowing down mechanism of the destruction of the word this quite adequately displays the issue at hand. The issue of the need to reproduce is inherent in all living matter; regeneration is the key to survival. It is a question of justifiable cause not to assert the tuakana or Teina issue, that is the evil patriarchal way of seeing Te Iwi society. We must continue our mission, to go forth amongst the stars, study other civilizations, search them out. These are the stories that were being taught, to the students who went to the Whare Wananga. Many learned scholars freely give the information discussed in this essay. It is probable that this information is concerned with the exact whereabouts of the homeland. It is a provocative question amongst the world’s population. Do Te Iwi have a connection to Mesopotamia; sure there are amazing similarities in arts, architecture social, systems, and belief systems. Albeit wanting to hear relay some of the issues that cover the time of Te Iwi reaching a stage in human evolution, in whatever form it was to eventuate to. The real issue here is where is Hawaiki Nui, Hawaiki Roa, and Hawaiki Pamamao. These are the most consuming questions that confront humanity today, particularly Te Iwi. The indigenous peoples of a land appear to be the only ones who know the answers. This study may seem to be speculative but the evidence is compelling where Primarily the korero of Hohepa Te Rake, is the compounding factor and if this information was taught to him in the Whare Wananga System from the 1900’s to 1920’s. this is a clear indication of the existence of a segment of Te Iwi Society that Pakeha can not uncover, a secret society with a secret language. A Society that in this essay is shown to have the hallmarks of one of the most ancient of all peoples on this planet a society of people whose skill in knowledge development and security, we can marvel at but which we can only speculate on. Knowledge that is now being released for the benefit of Iwi students, who wish to participate in this type of research.


[1] Sir E. A. Wallis Budge KT (1926) The Dwellers of the Nile.
[2] What is seen of the Pyramids today is only about two thirds of the original structure, Pyramids are built in two sections, the lower section (about one third) was a square cornered oblong vertical structure, as in Assyria, Mexico and Inca pyramids. On top of this base, and about double the height, there was a second section with sloping sides, which is the section now visible. The surface of the lower section was covered with facing stones and otherwise beautified.
[3] Refer to Ancient Civilizations.
[4] Menes: Menemene. He kupu ano tenei o tatou nei reo, ko te reo o nga Matua Tupuna. He aha I whakapuaki ana tenei kupu, katahi ka kai atu te kupu nei I te pukapuka a te Wiremu: 1987: 650.
[5] The system of Puhi was in place in Egypt at this time. See, Manetho 300 BC, and Herodus 300BC.
[6] Te Iwi has replaced the word M i. In protest to the iniquitous onset of white colonization.
[7] Iraquoi legend say that when the planet was flooded Iwi survived by mating with the Ant.
[8] See Thorkild Jacobson 1924 p. 67. And Robin Clarke, & Geoffrey Hindley. The Challenge of the Primitives. 1975. P. 70-77.
[9] Te Kapua-Matotoru, like aperahama in his time had no idea that he was to become the descendent of such a numerous people, he descended from Tapuwae and Te Huki. Te Huki the great great grandson of Kahungunu, and Rongomai-Wahine. Whose mother was Te Mata-Kainga-I Te Tihi, from Te Kapua Matotoru descended the great tribe Ngati Kahungunu, who ruled even to this day nearly one quarter of Aotearoa. (Mitchell: 1944: Whakapapa xx)
[10] For those who do not accept this as the truth, must consider that prior to this theory there was nothing. So there must be extensive research done on this subject.

[11] Pei Te Hurunui. (1926: 12).
[12] It can be seen from the map of the Fertile Crescent (Daniel Rops: 1943: p 17) that the two rivers did not join as they do today, in the Chott-el-Arab. During four thousand years the alluvial deposits have extended the coastline enormously and the Delta is now common to both. At the time of Aperahama, Ur was near the seacoast; it is now more than one hundred and twenty-five miles inland.

[13] The houses were built in; long meandering streets, with blind walls; according to the custom still followed in the east. Private life was concealed, and only to be seen in the central patio with its white roughcast terraces a fig tree in the corner of the court. To day the houses, of Iraq preserve the same pattern as those of four thousand years ago.
[14] It is to be noted that certain historians, among them one of considerable authority, M. Lods, do not except the commonly accepted tradition according to which the Ur of the bible is identified with the Ur of Sumeria. They point out, that since in the account of the earliest origin of the race, Noah’s Ark came to ground in Armenia, which is in the north, not in the south. We must look to this district as the point of departure for the Terahites, and he affirms that the names of the ancestors of Abram “seem to be dotted along the direct route from Armenia to Canaan.” At all events, Haran was a stage in this route.
[15] Some historians think that this movement of the Terahite towards the south was contemporaneous with a displacement of the sedentary peoples from Syria and upper Mesopotamia. This was the origin of certain races that we find in Palestine at the time of the return of Iwi from Egypt, (Daniel Rops: 1944: 23) as depicted also by Hohepa Te Rake (Rout: 1926: 18)