MAHI A ATUA A WAY OF BEING

MATIU PENNELL & MARK KOPUA I will bring ceremony I will care and provide Your companion Paia te rangi Tenei te po, nau ma te ao

Indigenise your space Paia te rangi I will consume, control and take you

With false promises, insults and threats Whiro te tipua You will fall and we will become one Ka ma te ariki Ka ma te tauira

Remain an active Whiro te tipua learner I can caress you or turn you over

I can lift and support

I have a temper – a blinding Tawhirimatea temper Hongihongi te wheiwheia

Embrace negative Tawhirimatea feedback I guard the path of peace

I maintain balance

Before me is chaos Te Kuwatawata Beyond me is peace Lean into the uncertainty of learning

Lean into the Te Kuwatawata discomfort of failing A great falling of water came to me

I control the temperature

I have children of the sea, sea and land and the land. Let the first response be human Tangaroa We see the tiniest glimmer of hope, potential, opportunity Whiro. Hinatore Te Mamaru Uepoto Stay collective no matter what the Peketua challenge Together we flood the fear with light Within the darkness lies Whiro. Hinatore the light Te Mamaru Uepoto Peketua Lord of the forest and its creatures

Father of mankind

Separator of Rangi & Papa

Liberator of confinement, of the Tane darkness Find the ‘Tane’ from within you and bring ‘him’ to the fore

Tane Lord of war, of strategy and strength

The rakau mata-rua

Tumatauenga The opposite to risk is connection

Tumatauenga I am kindness, father of Pohutu-kawa of Rongo-nui

Making paths across seas, land and sky

Rongo Rehua Tumatauenga Replace the anaesthetic experience

with an aesthetic experience

Rongo Rehua Tumatauenga I bring the reflecting waters of the heavens

The water that Whiro will shy from.

I am of the upper-most-spaces

Hine-kau-oro-hia “It is not a chemical imbalance,

It’s a power imbalance”

Hine-kau-oro-hia I gave my son to contain the anger of others -

to shield my father - Tane

To protect all

Hine-pu-te-hue Individualism and individual approaches breeds invisible practices

Hine-pu-te-hue I govern the forest floor,

My retreat, my mother

Not merely safe.

Haumia-tiketike The myth of meritocracy diminishes the capacity of community

Haumia-tiketike I govern all Rarohenga

Abandoned, discarded, I will rain fire.

To reshape and scarify your world

Ru-au-moko Equity is about need

Inequity comes from the failure to respond to need

Ru-au-moko The prince of peace of healing over all, even my brothers

Let Tu-pore-nuku and Tu-pore-rangi cover you Rongomatane Let my healing waters flow over you The Mahi a Atua is YOU

modelling a way of being

Rongomatane not telling anyone else, how

Rongomaraeroa to be.