Mauri ora e te whanau!
i am back in Taupo having arrived on Friday 31 October. I actually came up home to catch up with my father & spend some time with him - given that he is still recovering from the effects of an AORTIC BYPASS. About that - he is doing quite well!!
My Dad is involved with land trusts around the region & he has alot of information scattered around his whare (house) - as i was browsing through some of his documents, i came across a reference to a moteatea or rather a patere. This song contains references to places in the region stretching from Pohaturoa & Mokai (the northern boundary between Tuwharetoa & Raukawa) right down to Waitetoko (Te Rangiita) which is situated on the eastern side of lake Taupo!!
The song also contains whakapapa - genealogy of the region. To sum up, this patere is a typical method our ancestors used to store and preserve knowledge. The next thing for me is to track down an original copy of the patere and examine its contents, in much the same way i did when i was in Motueka a couple weeks ago.
I am thinking of creating a cultural map of the contents of that patere to show how our ancestors clothed the land with the sounds of their language & the colour of their culture!!
hei kona
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