John Porter believes an ancient flat-topped pyramid in view from Tauranga's The Strand adds another element to the case for pre-Maori settlement of New Zealand.
The Napier author and poet says the flat-topped mountain looks like similarly shaped land formations in Guatemala and one in the Waipoua Forest, Northland.
Looking at Tamapahore with a pre-historic eye.
John noticed the distinct hill across the harbour when he was parked on The Strand recently.
'I've looked at it for years and thought it was just another Maori pa site,” says John.
'What I can't see is the back of it. We were going to go and have a look. That little Maori settlement, there's a road that goes round there, carries on.”
It's mentioned on page 55 of his e-book 005 Thunderbox.
John maintains the ridges cut into the hill are not the remnant palisades of the Tamapahore pa, as everyone has assumed for generations, but are instead earthworks of the Waitaha or Moriori people, who built high after a tsunami in 1421 killed most of them.
'There was a huge tidal wave that was 120ft (35m) high when it hit Stewart Island, and that ripped up both sides of the country,” says John. 'That was why the tribes - what was left of them - built on the hills and cut ledges into them.”
John's opinions are part of a view which maintains the Maori came to New Zealand aboard ships in a Chinese fleet under the command of Admiral Zheng He in one of the seven recorded voyages he undertook between 1405 and 1433.
His first expedition included a fleet of 62 ships and 27,800 men, according to the encyclopaedia Britannica. Zheng He's voyaging connection with New Zealand was promoted by author Gavin Menzies in his book '1421: The Year China Discovered the World”.
How a flat-topped pyramid came to be in New Zealand is a conversation that quickly brings names such as Ross Wiseman and Martin Doutre into the conversation.
Ross is best known for his book ‘New Zealand's Hidden Past'.
Based on his interpretation of unusual rock markings found at Mount Tauhara, Taupo, the author proposed that New Zealand was settled by a mysterious Mediterranean civilisation more than 2000 years ago. His Middle Eastern colonisation theories are also linked to claims of Egyptian explorers in Australia.
Martin Doutre wrote ‘Ancient Celtic New Zealand', an exploration of New Zealand's stone-marked sites that appear to be aligned similarly to Celtic-style standing stones and ley lines.
His theories have received negative credit from the government, who forbid archaeological examinations of stone ruins in Waipoua Forest for a couple of generations.
John's own journey into the past began in Bush Road, Te Puke, in 1997, where a neighbour pointed out the gravesite of the last of the Rotoiti Turehu.
John visited Joan Leaf, author of the book ‘Hawaiki 2000 BC to Hokianga', and continued on to look up Ross Wiseman and Martin Doutre.
'I was, in fact, shocked to find so many facts about the race of the people who were here long before Polynesians were brought here,” says John.
11 comments
good luck
Posted on 16-06-2015 09:43 | By Captain Sensible
Good luck convincing the guardians of our history, the maori "academics", who make up history to suit whatever claim they want, despite all evidence to the contrary. Key and Finlayson and all the other spineless politicians will dismiss you as a loony for fear of upsetting their iwi chums.
imaginations
Posted on 16-06-2015 10:21 | By Kiri Upoko
These are imaginations of delusion. Pure theory with no basis whatsoever, we should waste no time in discussion.
hush hush
Posted on 16-06-2015 11:24 | By Captain Sensible
There are other landmarks in NZ that suggest some race here before maori. The New Zealand Government possesses several skeletons carbon dated to centuries before the Maori claimed to have reached the North and South Islands. These skeletons should have their DNA tested to show where they came from and when. A leading expert at Cambridge University has agreed to carry out this examination however, they need the consent of the New Zealand Government who, as may be expected, have passed the buck by saying we need Maori consent. Why would they need Maori consent when they are not of Maori origin?
75 year embargo until 2063
Posted on 16-06-2015 11:44 | By Captain Sensible
Ask the govt why there was a 75 year embargo on research into the Waipoua stone wall etc. It would blow maori claims out the water, that's why!
Not too sharp in Fairyland?
Posted on 16-06-2015 13:37 | By tish
Nothing to see here Folks
Posted on 16-06-2015 15:22 | By space cadet
"who forbid archaeologicalexaminations" Is that forbid or forbade? Is it still forbidden or is it not? If it is, why? Whats to hide from people? Whats the big secret?
Nothing to see here folks.
Posted on 16-06-2015 18:11 | By CitizenX
Please move right along. Lets also not forget that the earth is the centre of the universe, flat and only 600 years old.
What difference does it make?
Posted on 16-06-2015 18:57 | By How about this view!
Whether the hill is an old pa site, a pyramid or a natural feature cause by wind and rain. We are mired down with "ifs' and Buts'" far too often and it just gets those that believe in verbal accounts of the past, all bent and twisted out of shape. Enjoy the view and move on!
This guy will get shut down
Posted on 16-06-2015 22:49 | By s83cruiser
Heaven forbid he should make mention of any form of pre-Maori occupation it would blow treat claims out of the water. Can't have the gravy train derailed with talk like that now can we. Lets just suggest the man is deluded with his pre-Maori occupation theory and sweep the possibilities under the rug.
we're all the same anyway
Posted on 17-06-2015 10:30 | By BullShtAlert
Us humans are all descended from the same common ancestor, so we're all related. To me the concept of who was here first doesn't matter a flying fig. Evolution explains scientifically the origins of life on Earth. If we go back far enough I'm related to some of the fish being caught off our coast. Hey maybe I can claim some sort of royalties?
Hush hush
Posted on 18-06-2015 13:07 | By DAD
Why would the Government not want to investigate our History. We are supposed to be one people!
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