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..