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Te Ahu Ahu Marae
Te Wharekai
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Te Ao NgaHoro[horo]
The Wharekai, first guardian of the living.
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Te Ao Ngahoro, Nanny Ma to the kids of Rangiwewehi. A fierce woman of her time where she would not hesitate to intervene with her womb view of our Universe. It was always about the kids when she rose from her station as the first of Mana Whenua O Te Awahou, the oldest of our kuia names that travelled with us on the line of the cherrytree. Her dress a woven blanket of time to us today, with her husband Tawakaheimoa watching on with nga mokopuna as they burnt her old dress so her wairua could move into her new home cleansed first by our puhi of the threshold the night before.
The Wharekai, keeper of secrets from the kitchen and its workers to the Queen Bee. The smell of food steaming, toast in the morning, and a pot of brew on boil, and the life, laughter and chatter of the whole Pa. First to serve and wait exalting their hospitality skills with old and new cuisines, showing the prowess of the feminine force of nature in the kitchen.
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Kuia and mokopuna alike felt te mauri of familiar goodness in the smell and service with a smile attitude, could do for those who were mamae from loss and those happy with familiar memories.
Every nanny has a story in their basket of knowledge for their mokopuna. Each story woven with morals and deeds to steer their mokopuna into the light. This still is the way of our wairua today. Performance and family practises in and around the wharekai were both formal and informal in such skills involving memory through repetitive training.
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The Key of Tarimano...Through dreamtime with papakainga the old church comes alive to open under the stars of Te Rei and reach up and pick a cherry from the stars for the blood of jewels who could cross time to the fold of our universe ..."we are the universe surrounding your evolution within the korua o te Rangiwewehi.
