Rua Kēnana Hepetipa
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Rua Kēnana Hepetipa was a Tūhoe prophet, faith healer and land rights activist. He called himself Te Mīhaia Hou, the New Messiah, and claimed to be Te Kooti Arikirangi's successor Hepetipa who would r
Rua in 1908
Rua standing on the rock in the centre
Maungapōhatu, city of the mist
Rua and four of his wives
Maungapōhatu
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Maungapōhatu is a settlement in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. Located in a remote area of the Urewera bush country about 20 kilometres north of Lake Waikaremoana, it was foun
Rua Kēnana Hepetipa
…ownership. Rua's beliefs split the Ringatū Church, which Te Kooti had founded in around 1866/1868. In 1907 Rua formed a non-violent religious community at Maungapōhatu, the sacred mountain of Ngāi Tūhoe, in the Urewera. By 1900, Maungapōhatu was one of the few areas that had not been investigated by the Native Land…
Lake Waikaremoana and Te Urewera from the south
The Hīona