In our Maniapoto wananga it was taught that 330 generations ago following 5,000 years of sea-rise, our tupuna began to explore new homes in Hawaiki Nui. Movement out into the Pacific began in the time of Maui (I), who had set out into Te Moananui A Kiwa 239 generations ago, and mapped the ocean going as far east as to reach the lands of a people that 'worshiped the sun'.