Te Maunga
Mountains are major volcanic formations in Aotearoa. To Maori they are as sacred as the head of a person is to their own mana. We connect through woven whakapapa weaving our way up and back in time to our forefathers who navigated the lands beneath. Conversations between mountains were joined in celebratory occassions when we remince stories of great eruptions like Mount Tarawera.
Mana Whenua, descendants of the keepers of the land separate to all other Tangatawhenua Rangatiratanga due to their spiritual skills as a pure vessel for the spirit of the Mountain above.
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Mountain business is not men's business alone when the female descends of mana whenua as she can sweep the land in innocence when the wairua of the mountain moves her body with her feet to do his bidding when men are silent. For us, mana whenua can hold the land titles of her male brothers and fathers when a loop forms between the old koroua of the paepae, and the papakainga. This occurs when the mountain chooses from a female line of Mana Whenua whose deeds are beyond compare, in order to renew and replenish the mountain's wairua and knowledge for the next generation of Men chosen from across Papatuanuku, as all mountains speak, and all mountains hear the baritones of great men who have served in their shadow of hidden cloaks.
Inside the mountains are stories of fairylike people and battles of wit that shed gold light on storytelling of the patupairere. In the north Te Ahu Ahu Maunga have similar stories of their Morehu of Omapere Lake behind the maunga.
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