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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This was the first woman created from the forming of soil within the fertile clays in Kurawaka. Not created by just Taane but bay many of the children of Rangi...
Te Aoturoa, Te Paerangi and Tāhekeroa were the first three island nations on the path to Rarohenga. Tāhekeroa was the largest battle against Whiro in the ‘long descent’ of banishment....
Many atua went on the quest to create those who shall inherit custodianship of the natural world. They wanted to create humans. The atua tried and failed. On and on...
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...
