Ko Hine-pū-te-hūe tēnei. This is the goddess of the hue (gourd), a holder of Te Riri o ngā Tungaane and all who partake in angry exchanges, in war and in...
Tane te wānanga - the whakapapa of knowledge is held in this journey. It represents you as a learner. What is the overarching purpose? What are the things that act...
These were two sisters who played a major role in Hau-te-ana-nui, the house of Tangaroa. Hine-te-Iwaiwa was the ancestor of all female affairs including childbirth, entertainment and all weavings. She...
Ko Paia te Rangi, Paia-ā-tau tēnei. Nāna a Te Rangi-tīramarama me Torotoro-ihi, the fire sticks i tiki i a Ranginui, hei hika i Te Ahi-kōmau manaaki for the baby. Nāna...
Kēkere-wai and Toro-i-waho are middle children who initiated the debate of their discomfort in noho-tata-pu. The kōrero that founded two opposing opinions about change. Kēkere-wai who stirred the waters and...
Haepuru and Haematua are the second set of twins who gifted the skull, in the creation of Hine-ahu-one, to house the brain that Rōiho and Rōake gifted. These twins, who...
Tiwaiwaka the bringer of knowledge. In the first attempt by Mataora and Niwareka to leave Rarohenga Tiwaiwaka warned them of the journey being perilous at that time as the atua...
Huaki Pouri was the dwelling of Tane and came about from the conversation the atua had about changing their existence in Noho-tatapu. Those atua who thought and believed in change,...
Tane coupled with Hineahuone and begat Hineatauira, the flashing dawn maiden and first human. Then Tane made Hineatauira a wife and they begat Uru. But Tane did not inform Hineatauira...
This pūrākau offers that very scenario using familiar patterns of behaviour but with characters who have been wiped from our collective memory.A reintroduction to our ancestors. And although in a...
Te Ihorangi, who fell from a roimata of Ranginui. Number 10 of the children Te Ihorangi from the marriage to Huruteaarangi is the origin of rain, snow, sleet, ice, and...
Uru the mātāmua who glows in the western sky from under Te Kahutuanui a Rangi, the giant cloak of Rangi. The glow is the Purapura-whetu, the children of Uru. Uru...
Ko Tūmatauenga te atua o te pakanga and weaponry. Tu was upset with the lack of support his brothers provided during the rage and war with Tāwhiri he decided to...
Ko Te Kūwatawata tēnei. Te Kūwatawata is the ‘gate-keeper’ of Poutererangi, the last island one must arrive at before heading to Rarohenga. Te Kūwatawata alone closed the door to the...
