Loop Pacific Fire by Eidem Nathan (6 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - You are who you come from. And you come from everyone.Aroha Te Rangi can recite her genealogy back seventeen generations. Every Maori child learns their whakapapa-the chain of names connecting them to their ancestors, their land, their identity. But Aroha's grandmother taught her a hidden genealogy. One that goes deeper than seventeen generations. One that goes all the way back to the fire.The Hatepe eruption of 186 AD created Lake Taupo-the largest lake in New Zealand, sitting in a caldera most people don't realize they're standing inside. Something arrived in that eruption. Something that settled into the volcanic wound and discovered, in the Maori who lived above it, a civilization that had already built the most sophisticated network of consciousness on Earth.Whakapapa. The web of genealogical connections linking every person to every other through shared ancestors. The entity didn't need to build a lattice. It found one already in place. It didn't mark individuals. It wove its frequency into the carvings, the art, the oral traditions-so gently that the weaving became indistinguishable from the culture itself.Now, eighteen centuries later, a signal arrives from across the Pacific. The network is going global. And Aroha-keeper, cultural advisor, the woman who navigates daily between te ao Maori and the modern world-must protect the most important sacred site in New Zealand from a developer who sees lakefront property where she sees the ear of an ancient consciousness.The Pacific Fire is the story of what happens when an alien intelligence finds a human culture worthy of collaboration rather than conquest-and what happens when a woman has to defend that collaboration with resource consents and lawyers instead of visions and prophecy.For readers of The Bone People, Whale Rider, and anyone who believes the oldest technologies are the ones we carry in our names.Ko Taupo te roto. The whakapapa holds. The fire burns.…

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