Key Info

- Sacred homeland and spiritual underworld, acting as the origin of and return for spirits after death

Brief Bio

Hawaiki is the central, sacred Polynesian homeland and spiritual underworld, acting as the ultimate place of origin and return for spirits after death. Known by variations like Savaiʻi or ʻAvaiki, it is the ancestral point of migration for Māori and other Pacific peoples. It is both a physical and historical place and a mythical, paradise-like realm.