The Tree
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The Tree |
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| After death, a spirit travels up Ninety-mile Beach to Cape Reinga. It descends the hill to this tree, alone at the end of Cape Reinga. It is a Pohutukawa, estimated to be about 8-900 years old. The spirit descends down the roots of this tree to return to Hawaiiki, the ancestral homeland of the Maori. |
| The Maori name for Cape Reinga is Te Rerenga Wairua - the spirits' leaping place. |