Talk:Io Matua Kore

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This is probably made up young earth creationist revisionism.[edit]

This is using primary sources of Tui Cruickshank - See their interview here in Creation Ministries of all things. http://creation.com/maori-creator-io Fromthehill (talk) 09:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tui Cruickshank is not a primary source. She is alive now. Te Rangi Hīroa, who wrote scathingly about the Io tradition as represented by writers in the early 20th century, died in 1951.

As far as I understand, and unfortunately can only cite oral history from my family, this is backwards: The Hawaiians were polytheistic first and it was the Tahitians who brought them Io/Uru/Oro. And honestly, Menehune's? Really? This is my first ever wikipedia post or edit, so let me know what I do wrong Pipelineaudio (talk) 23:48, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Māori came from Tahiti, some at least via Rarotonga. It's meaningless to say the Tahitians brought Io to the Māori, since the Māori were originally Tahitians. What's your reference to Menehune about? Koro Neil (talk) 01:02, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quality[edit]

This article is poorly written, very poorly sourced, and has the incorrect tones for a wikipedia article. I would nominate it for deletion until an expert who can write about all of the view points of Io can write the article, as this is a poor representation of Io Matua, and is highly biased. LeafromOZ (talk) 12:57, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Z. Smith questions the motives behind the existence of such a book, seeing this as a questionable emphasis of the idea around the Io. What does this sentence mean? Such a book as what? Te Whatahoro's? Te Rangi Hīroa's? Did Jonathan Smith feel that Te Rangi Hīroa overemphasized the importance placed (by others) on Io, and that he attacked the view he mistakenly attributed to them? Koro Neil (talk) 01:02, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]