Koroua & Kuia
Koroua and Kuia maintained oral memories of blood and lineage with land.
As first Koroua, Jacob could whakapapa back through his time eternal reciting from a notch in a walking stick. The memory capacity inherit of oral learners who navigated the spirit world with the tone of karakia alone.
Our Springs carry old knowledge of his genetic lineage of breeding, connecting up through his land as a lifeforce into our generation on the Christian family tree.
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Both male and female whakapapa were brought together from left and right moko of koroua to balance strengths of knowledge and creative spirit for their gender bloodlines of the Rangatira.
Through Jacob's breath of korero and waiata Poutama Weaves a staircase of family genealogies navigating back from the stars to Tarimano with aroha to our spiritual beginnings.
The gatherings of women shared births, healing, remedies, oral teachings and stories, weaving, washing, all strengthened by tribal generations of bonding family through their kuia and nannies womb.
Cards Under the Cherrytree raises memories of unbroken dreams with sacred land. Feminine knowledge woven through wits of game from old to young women as they thread their baskets of knowledge to the next generation.
The Self-taught Guitar exemplifies the influence of old spirit knowledge carried within loved objects and instruments waiting to sing the old peoples story.
Music and Polynesian instruments were a way of active life throughout the islands. Families nurtured talent for waiata a formal way of passing on knowledge as song and action, not easily understood by the common word alone.
Clothing worn by our koroua and kuia were treasured by descendants whether it was a great kiwi feather kakahu or an English Top hat from the 1800s. They were cherished as living spirit of aroha a practise still commonly seen today in the giving of bone and greenstone adornments.
A Fan of The Good Book our old people wove
Pa perspectives through the English bible as Jacob's generation had taught their koroua and kuia before them.
Faith before Beliefs were the family motto. Not because the beliefs were mythical but because it was believed they had been given life before the introduction of Christianity to Aotearoa.
Nanny Rati's Kitchen had the fondest feminine memories of koroua and kuia at peace surrounded by the smell of rising rewena bread beside the open wood fire stove.
The strength of faith in their knowledge of bloodline brought the living spirit world to life for our family.
The Oldest Kuia to many is Hei Tiki who mystifies definitions by others. To us, she is the feminine to the male of Maoridom, she is a Queen. Her role represents mother earth as do many related historical artefacts of early settlements on the path of earth air fire and water.
Te Paepae is the formal stage for men to learn and Koroua to speak of spirits and land ancestors.
The strategy of Maori separates the living genders as a net of protection for the greatest treasure mokopuna.
Nga Taonga O Nga Tupuna
The Couch resonates the office of all my koroua ranked as Tangatawhenua during formal and informal occasion for the Pa and the Awahou River mouth of Lake Rotorua.
The koroua and kuia worked as a specially woven team when it came to seeing the future of their mokopuna as they watched them play and cry. They could see the potential through the tears of the gifted ones.
