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, Tangaroa 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 Rongomaraeroa The Mahi a Atua is YOU
modelling a way of being
Rongomatane not telling anyone else, how
Rongomaraeroa to be.