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Tēnā Koutou katoa


        Tēnā Koutou

Ko Alyssa ahau.

Nᅙ Mawhera

Tēnā  Koutou katoa.


Tuesday 28 February 2017

Tikanga: Karakia

Tuia i runga
Bind above
Tuia i raro
Bind below
Tuia i whao
Bind without
Tuia i roto
Bind within
Tuia te here tangata
Bind together the people
Ka rongo te ao
Plan for the day
Ka rongo te po
By looking to the past
Tihei mauri ora!
Behold the sneeze of life



Tikanga: Music

Modern VS Moari Music

Modern NZ Music
The modern music in New Zealand is really any type of music but the top 40 songs are mostly pop songs. Although in New Zealand they still do kapa haka which is an avenue for Maori people to express and showcase their heritage and cultural through song and dance. So i guess modern music in New Zealand can be whatever you like and want it to be.

Traditional Maori Music
Traditional Maori music, usually concludes of voices and sounds of hands and feet being moved to make a sound. Maori music and dance was used on battlefields to make peace with other Maori tribes.
Traditional Maori music can also be used for prayers. Not only can it be used to connect with the Maori gods, but also for funerals and ceremonies.


Maori Instruments
One of the pure maori inventions is called a pūtorino. A pūtorino  occurs nowhere else in Polynesia or in the world.
It is a wooden trumpet varying in length from 9 to 20 in. and has an uneven bore, swelling out to the centre and diminishing evenly towards the lower end, where the pipe is quite narrow and either completely closed or has a very small opening.
A purerehua is another traditional instrument crafted by Maoris. Usually made from wood. The purerehua is spun in circles to make awesome sounds.
Not only is the Purerehua used to make beautiful music but also to connect with spirits.
The Purerehua is usually crafted out of bones from past elders or pero meaning dog. The reason these were crafted out if bones was because they usually meant a lot to the families.
One way of keeping their elders alive at heart was to use the bones as when played the sound comes from them, there fore the elder is still making sounds.




Tikanga: Tangaroa The god of Sea

Tangaroa

Tangaro is the son of  Ranginui and brother of  Rongo, Tūmatauenga, Haumia, and Tane
Papatuanuku and the Tangaroa is the god of the sea.  Tangaroa was attacked by his brother  Tawhirimatea (the god of storms.) And so he was forced to live at sea.

The contention between Tangaroa and Tāne, the father of birds, trees, and humans, is an indication that the Māori thought of the ocean and the land as opposed dimensions. When people go out to sea to fish or to travel, they are in are representatives  of Tāne entering the dimension of Tāne's enemy. And so it is important that offerings were are given to Tangaroa before any such adventures.