{"id":10376,"date":"2019-08-24T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/legend-maori-uru-kehu\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:21:12","slug":"legend-maori-uru-kehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/legend-maori-uru-kehu\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend Maori URU KEHU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1280\/810;display: block; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-08-29-at-11.20.16-2.jpeg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>URU KEHU <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Legend Maori<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe ancient seas roared under the influence of the moon and the stars and the Uru Kehu o Nga Tupuna finally disembarked.\u00a0 Our ancestors with the red and golden hair arrived to our island.\u00a0 Most of them perished in the cold ocean when the sea broke their ship into a thousand pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not all perished; some men and women were saved together with their children.<\/p>\n<p>This was the arrival of those of whom our old ones have spoken.\u00a0 According to them,\u00a0 We are the children of different colors, descendants of different currents and we travel over different seas to find each other\u2026 <em>\u201c\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many Polynesian legends tell of the arrival of white-skinned, red-headed people.\u00a0 One of them is from the traditional lore of the Waitaha tribe of New Zealand, in which, 67 generations ago, there were three peoples with different colored skin and different traditions who lived and mixed peacefully on Easter Island.\u00a0 Three navigators are mentioned: Hotu Matua, of the Maoriori people <em>(dark skin, brown eyes and black hair)<\/em>, Kiwa, of the Uru Kehu <em>(white men with blond or red hair)<\/em> who came from the east with the rising sun, and the Kiritea people, men of the stone <em>(also with light skin, short of stature, with green eyes and black hair)<\/em> who came from northern Asia.\u00a0\u00a0 From their union and peaceful cooperation a new culture was born which gave the impulse for migration to New Zealand in search of new lands to cultivate.\u00a0 The message gleaned from this legend is that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui could have originated in a mix of diverse racial groups or biological human communities, becoming one cultural and linguistic community.The Rapanui language of today does not recognize the term <em>URU KEHU<\/em>.\u00a0 There is only the ancestral term <em>URU MANU<\/em>, which indicates a person not of the aristocratic clan, the Miru.\u00a0 According to the dictionaries of S.<\/p>\n<p>Englert and the Commission for the Rapanui Language, <em>URU KEHU<\/em> could be translated as \u201cperson apart from the Rapanui, of unknown descendance.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This could imply that in all the Rapanui there are genes of Uru Kehu, a blond or red-headed white man.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps that is the reason that white skin was once considered a mark of beauty and distinction in the ancient Rapanui traditions.<\/p>\n<p>As Manuel Tuki confirms;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><em>\u2026 \u201cmany of the ancient people on Easter Island were tall and white.\u00a0 This comes from their ancestors.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t dark; they are blond, red-haired; they have lots of freckles on their faces. \u00a0Felipe Pakarati shares that opini\u00f3n.\u00a0 \u201cThe reality is that there were many European ships which visited the Island a long time before it was seen by the Dutchman Rogeveen and there were certainly enough men among them to reproduce.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1528px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1528\/360;display: block; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Glosario.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URU KEHU Legend Maori \u201cThe ancient seas roared under the influence of the moon and the stars and the Uru Kehu o Nga Tupuna finally disembarked.\u00a0 Our ancestors with the red and golden hair arrived to our island.\u00a0 Most of them perished in the cold ocean when the sea broke their ship into a thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":370,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legend Maori URU KEHU - moeVarua Rapa Nui<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many Polynesian legends tell of the arrival of white-skinned, red-headed people. 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