Sacred Spirit
Papatuanuku the feminine mother earth, birthed from a chaotic universe of life forever expanding and evolving beyond our sight.
The spiritual world of Maoridom threads life through these beginnings in an infinite parallel of levels according to creation. Memory draws on the reminder of sensory rituals and customs of old knowledge as a tribe to reach this world of Poutama from sacred family lands.
Knowledge of The Sacred Spirit we inhale with the breath of life returns and guides us after death to journey back through the spirit world of family to Hawaiiki-nui our dimensional home in the universe.
The human body is accepted back as a vessel of wakahuia to the land spirit of our mountain after life some call mountain magic. The way between worlds open to the sacred spirit with rituals and customs practised within our wharenui whakapapa.
The wharenui are living entities with specific names of chiefs relevant to their people’s histories. Each sub-tribe follow specific rituals and customs relevant to that named house; to perform and adhere to; so as to awaken only their own ancestors' path to Poutama during the spiritual time of the Tangi.
The high-pitched call of a female voice followed behind by male baritones of whakapapa weave a picture of moving spirit into our living world. On a paepae whakapapa names of those who have spiritual right of entry, can begin down the steps of Poutama to greet the deceased on their side of life.
Photos become doorways and views from the afterlife into the wharenui as the naming of names begins from the paepae. The male baritone sound brings through the masculine from the otherside first, the koroua. The kuia weave their own weaves through the patterned geometrics within the wharenui...they are the whariki we sit on, they are the tekoteko panelled walls we lean against, they are the fingers and bones who bring life to the feathers of the korowai but most the feminine force is of a nanny wrapping her mokopuna in a warm nature-smelling adornment of love, to nurture and be nutured by the paepae.
The many faces of our Wharenui today begin with Church and Faith ritually woven together in sacred spirit to protect the ways of rituals and customs from another time. The tupapaku goes into the wharenui with the family. And after the urupa, the immediate families come back onto the papakainga via the small family built chapel. Here we acknowledge our faith in life before we move back to the feast and song that comes with life through the wharekai.
Mana Whenua (the inspiration of the living thread) the sacred named blessed on a Hei Tiki family who by way of lineage, and spiritual knowledge with land, define their woven rites of passage with mana mauri . When the land can speak through a sacred vessel, the boundaries of past present and future are removed for the physical and spiritual power that travels with this blessing of energy whether it be male or female the gift will come through faith alone as knowledge is the superior gift to receive.
Jacob's Ladder The journey to find the sacred steps back through the whakapapa and open the doors of Poutama for Tawakaheimoa.