#Te Pō

[thisisgraeme]

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[ladydisofdurin]

New Zealand’s second ever Māori queen, Nga wai hono i te po was announced as the new monarch of the Kiingitanga today on the final day of the tangihanga (funeral) of her father, King Tuheitia.

[warningsine]

The chiefs of New Zealand's Maori tribe – the Indigenous people of the country's mainland – anointed a 27-year-old as their new monarch on Thursday in a "break from tradition."

Thousands cheered as Nga Wai hono i te po Paki sat the throne in a ceremony on the country's North Island.

Nga Wai is the youngest daughter of King Tuheitia, who died on Friday after heart surgery.

A young Maori queen

The New Zealand Herald reported that she was favored and long groomed to take the throne after her father, however, her appointment was not set in stone as she is the late king's youngest child and only daughter. 

The new ruler is chosen by the heads of the community's tribes on the day of the previous monarch's funeral.

Local media reports suggest that Tuheitia's eldest son was initially tipped to be the next monarch, but Nga Wai emerged as the possible successor in recent years. 

"It is certainly a break from traditional Maori leadership appointments which tend to succeed to the eldest child, usually a male," Maori Cultural Advisor Karaitiana Taiuru told the AFP news agency. 

He said it was a "privilege" to witness a young Maori woman become queen.

Nga Wai is their eighth monarch and the second woman to hold the position. The first Maori monarch queen was her grandmother Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu, who died in 2006.

The king or queen's position is largely ceremonial and doesn't enjoy legal powers but holds significance in the community.

What happened at the ceremony?

Once the council of tribal heads selected the young queen, she was escorted to her wooden throne by a platoon of tattooed, bare-chested men who held ceremonial weapons. They chanted and screamed in praise and applause.

Adorned in a wreath of leaves, a cloak and a whalebone necklace,  Nga Wai sat beside her father's coffin while ceremonious rites took place.

Tuheitia has been laid in state for six days and will now be taken to his final resting place on the slopes of the sacred Mount Taupiri. 

Maori community faces challenges

The selection comes amid mounting challenges the Maori community faces, one of which is an aging leadership. 

"The Maori world has been yearning for younger leadership to guide us in the new world of AI, genetic modification, global warming and in a time of many other social changes that question and threaten us and Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand," Taiuru said.

The Maori community makes up 17% of New Zealand's population. Studies and data show they are more likely than other citizens to be unemployed and live in poverty.

Another challenge is life expectancy for the Maori people, which is seven years less than other New Zealanders, facing greater chances of suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and suicide.

mk/sms (AFP, dpa)

[haechanhues]

Our new Queen has been named and she’s so young I’m excited

[theres-a-body-here]

Hi could you do Genji, Hanzo, Cassidy, lifewaver and Mauga (separately) where they have matching skins with thier s/o

It took some convincing to make these boys match with you, some more than others, but you were determined to be twinsies on the field.

I threw in two extras, as a treat

Cole Cassidy - Sherlock Holmes and Watson

Took little to no convincing to have him match with you, but he was dead set on being Sherlock

This isn't negotiable

Expect to hear everything but your name out there

"Dear boy", "Watson", and "My dear" is all you're gonna be referred as

Cassidy will refuse to respond to you unless you refer to him as "sir" or "boss"

You could take a bullet to the side and he'll be kneeling over you like: "Hmm, yes, that is indeed a nasty wound my boy"

"You're a moron.....Sir" you groan out as he drags you to Mercy

Eventually, you really play into the roll

wrapping your arms around Cassidy from behind as you press your cheek against his

"Do you have a plan, Boss?"

He coughs, being caught off guard

"Yes, my dear Watson...it's uhh....ya know, this" He says as he spins peacemaker in his hands

"World's greatest detective, everyone" You remark sarcastically

Genji Shimada - Kamen Rider

He's actually the one who first asked to match costumes

You both bickered over who to be

Genji insisted you dress as Evolto, but you also wanted to be Kamen

In the end, you both dressed as Kamen

Genji dressed as Kamen Rider Blade

You dressed as Kamen Rider Gaia

You both pose and exclaim with a loud "Henshin!" after every elimination

The others don't really get it

Genji kinda just shuffles over and hugs you, pressing his faceplate into your chest sadly after being called a "Power Ranger" for the 5th time.

You have to stifle your laughter as you comfort him

"It's not the same thing," he whines, voice muffled by your chest

"Yeah buddy, they're completely different franchises," you chuckle out, rubbing his back

Niran "Bua" Pruksamanee - Bee and Flower

Pretty excited to match costumes with you

Niran took a pretty long time to pick which flower to dress as

"Maybe I should stick with Lotus, but...Jasmines..." he mutters as he brings fabrics to his chest, imagining himself as each flower

you sat on his bed wearing a bumblebee suit, watching on as Niran struggled to make a decision

He settles on fuchsia, bright purples and trailing fabric

Costume is so extravagant that you look comically out of place in your cheap Bee outfit

Niran doesn't mind, in fact, he finds it cute

He especially loves your puns

"Bee mine," you coo as you kiss his cheek

He chuckles as he returns the kiss

Hanzo Shimada - Cupid and Eros

You're gonna have to bust out all your tricks to convince this man to wear something so, in his words, undignified

What ever you do to get him into the cupid costume, expect complaints

"This is....embarassing," he mutters begrudgingly as he sits on your bed, tugging at his pastel pink wings

The bathroom door opens as you step out in your Eros outfit

"How do I look, Babe?'

Hanzo's face immediately erupts into a blazing red

"Wh-What are you wearing?" he exclaims as he adverts his gaze, looking at anywhere but you

Your outfit is... minimal to say the least

Wings, red sash, sandals, bow, and a thin loincloth. That's literally it

Besides that? Nearly all of your skin was on display

"Aww, you don't like it?" you tease as you walk closer to Hanzo

You straddle his lap, feeling him stiffen under you

You cup his face while you rub his cheeks with your thumbs

"I'm just teasing you. I have a much more modest outfit ready

Hanzo lets out a sigh as he looks at you

You lean in closer, ghosting your lips over his ear

"This one is for tonight" you whisper

Hanzo swears you'll be the end of him one day

Maugaloa Malosi - Māui and Hine-nui-te-pō

You brought up the idea of matching costumes and he instantly had a mischievous look in his eyes

He agreed on the condition that he chooses the theme

He dressed as Māui and he helped make a costume for you

You recognized Māui from a movie, but you had no idea who Hine-nui-te-pō was

"Don't worry about it" he assured you with a chuckle

You two had a blast on the battlefield with your matching costumes

Although, you couldn't help but think something was up every time Mauga glanced at you

He'd smirk and throw you a wink

But this was Mauga, so it didn't really set off a red flag

Its not until the end of the battle where a talon grunt said something

"What he'd do to convince you to dress like that?"

You looked confused. The grunt explained she was from New Zealand.

She told you the story of Māui and Hine-nui-te-pō

Your face went from shock, embarrassment, to rage

You stomped your way to Mauga, who wore a shit-eating grin

You stood in front of him as your swung your hands to slap him

But you're too short

"God dammit! Lean over, asshole!" you cry as you jump at him Mauga breaks into a fit of laughter as he picks you up and swings you around

Jamison Fawkes - Yoshikage Kira and Killer Queen

Surprisingly, Junkrat was pretty hesitant to match costumes

He was worried changing clothes would include bathing

He likes his soot and burns thank you very much

"I have an aesthetic to maintain, mate"

But you knew how to break him

The moment the words "turns anything into a bomb" left your lips, he was instantly on board

Obviously he was gonna be the explosion cat

But since this was Junkrat, you had to approve his costume beforehand

You deadass had to explain to him why entering a bathtub of alcohol and pink sharpie markers to color his skin was a terrible idea

"But the damn cat's pink isn't it?" He asks, dumbfounded that you had a problem with his genius idea

"We'll use facepaint, babe"

You show off your costumes to the rest

Jamie wearing cat ears, Pink face paint, and leather gloves

You wearing a suit, dyed your hair blond, and severed mannequin hand in your pocket

After an ultimate that wiped out a good number of the enemy team, Junkrat clears his throat to speak

"Watashi no na wa "Kira yoshikage" nenrei 33-sai jitaku wa moriōchō hokutō-bu no bessō chitai ni ari ..."

The rest of you kinda stood around staring at him shocked

"I didn't know Mr. Fawkes knew japanese," Mei comments to you in a hushed voice, not wanting to interrupt Junkrat

You and Roadhog kinda look at each other

"He doesn't" you both say in unison

Reinhardt Wilhelm - Knight and Squire

A Knight and his squire? Count him in!

To be honest, you being his squire is somewhat of a fantasy he has, so Reinhardt was pretty excited to match costumes with you

You let him have a major say in your outfit since it was apparent this was big for him

He picked out colors of the old Crusade; Muted browns, greens and vibrant golds

Reinhardt wore his Balderich outfit

He fumbled to find a camera to capture the moment

Before you two left to meet up with the others for training drills, Reinhardt stopped you

"Y/N...can you...do something for me?" He asks nervously, voice almost a whisper

"Yeah sure, what's up big guy?"

"Can you bring me my hammer?" he finally responds after a while

You shrug and walk over to grab the massive weapon, bringing it over with a bit of strain

You had an idea of why he asked you to do this

You knelt on one knee and raised the hammer with both hands

"Your hammer, Sir Wilhelm"

Reinhardt's hands clench into a fists, the fabric of the gloves making a creaking sound from the pressure

He pushes the hammer aside and pulls you in for a bone crushing bear hug

"You've made this old dog happy, Y/N" he mutters as he nuzzles his face into your neck

"Yeah, sure, no problem" you strain out as you see spots on your vision

Reinhardt drops you immediately

"Sorry..." he mutters as he pats your shoulder

[orpheusilver]

it highkey sucks that greek and norse mythologies are the only ones you see in global pop culture. i should be able to mention hinenui-te-pō and get 100 people in the notes screaming crying throwing up

[droptheguillotineplease]

The Thread of Life 

-The bird featured here is the Aotearoa New Zealand pīwakawaka, a bird associated with death and the goddess of death Hine-nui-te-pō. It is commonly thought that if a pīwakawaka flies into your house it is an omen of death or an ancestor visiting. 

[notthemonthbutmarch]

Small Natlan theory for your consideration

So Mavuika definitely looks like Himeko, but is also based on the Māori fire deity Mahuika. Mahuika is the little sister of a goddess named Hine-nui-te-pō, who’s the goddess of the night and receives spirits when they die.

In Natlan, there’s a place called the Night Kingdom and currently the Abyss is invading— which will negatively affect Natlan proper as well. The competition also has a thing called the Pilgrimage where contests seemingly go to the Night Kingdom and race to the exit, and if they fail to make it out in time they kinda just stay there?

Death also isn’t final in Natlan, instead they go into the Scared Flame, so it seems like for Natlan there’s something else that contributes to death. Something like a goddess… mayhaps?

What I’m saying is if Mavuika is based on Mahuika and Genshin and has all these extra elements to death, then that means a Hine-nui-te-pō is possibly also canon.

And if Mavuika looks like Himeko, then is it possible that Hine-nui-te-pō could look like Kiana Kaslana?

[mysoulusesumbrellasinthesun]

I have decided that the Lalondes are Maori and furthermore I am more correct about this than anyone has ever been.

My evidence:

Rose

Engaged in a battle with her mother of who can say the most eloquent (and longest) karakia because she always hated saying them so now tries to continuously one up her mother by being slightly more precise with hers. Dinner is always an hour late because of this.

Despises the insistence of motherhood in Maori folklore (especially ones her mother teaches her) and finds them to be incredibly stifling.

She hates doing kapa haka and hates that women cannot do a full haka, so she puts on a one woman performance herself when she is young during a “ridiculous” matariki celebration her mother was putting on, and did a male haka by herself. Mom found this extremely adorable and insists on playing the video every Matariki, which Rose hates.

Her favorite nursery rhyme growing up was “One Day a Taniwha”

Rose loves taniwha, though she acts like she doesn’t.

On the meteor she wishes she had actually learned about her culture with her mother when she had the chance instead of only engaging with it ironically and feels very separate from the others on the meteor because of it.

After she is on the meteor towards the end of homestuck I think she reconciles her heritage with her lack of motherliness in the idea of women less as mothers but as powerful dangerous people (a la the goddess of death, Hine-nui-te-pō, who kills Maui with her thighs)

She is so annoyed with the lack of taking care of the land when they reach Earth C. She did not really consider Papatuanuku as her mother before but she realizes now after seeing how all the other kids and especially some of the trolls behave, acting like the land is something to be used and discarded she gets extremely annoyed. She, Roxy, and Jade bond over this.

Her mother gave her a Koru pounamu to celebrate her becoming a woman on her first period. She resentented it and refused to wear it, but eventually accepted it and passed it down to Roxy who was overjoyed to receive it.

She instead wears a Hei Tiki pounamu necklace Dave gave to her as a wedding present. She acts aloof about it but anyone who knows her can tell she is deeply moved by the gift. She keeps it on at all times.

Roxy

There is an inherent horror to looking all around you to see that Tangaroa has drowned his mother.

The idea that The Condesce, a colonizer, took over the world and left Roxy stranded on a tiny piece of land with almost none of her people or culture left, and she can never sail out on a waka like her ancestors or a sailboat like the ancestors of her ancestors to see other places, trapped in a tiny select space. It’s a horror I can’t really describe.

Roxy desperately wants to know what tribe she comes from and who she descends from, to find that little bit of her family. She is very quiet on the day she finds out she was produced from herself. 

Roxy misses Papatuanuku, she misses her chance to meet both her mothers before they died. She messages Dirk about this while drunk but he does not fully get it.

As a trans woman, finds the women in Maori mythology and culture to be aspirational figures of power and motherhood.

She thanks the appropriate gods for any food she can scavenge for in her apocalypse but never really has the time to learn a full karakia.

Teaches the carapacians kapa haka, they aren’t very good at it but they do make up for it with enthusiasm

When she enters the session she insists on hongi (sharing breath) with each of her friends. It goes like this:

Dirk: Has been preparing for this for years. Has the whole technique down. Confident cool guy swagger, but not too much, he doesn’t look like he’s trying too hard either. He and Roxy bump their heads together and fall over. This looks ridiculous.

Jake: Roxy explains and leans in to do a hongi with him but he kisses her on both cheeks like he is french. Roxy thinks this is hilarious.

Jane: Needs at least 6 tries to get it right but keeps on insisting on doing it again so she can participate in Roxy’s culture appropriately, and then a couple more times because she keeps failing on purpose to make Roxy laugh. They are both in a fit of giggles by the time she has worked it out and it becomes their standard greeting.

Hal: Is a computer, but Roxy does hold the nose bridge of the glasses up to her face like they are doing a hongi which Hal does appreciate.

Calliope: Gets it right first try!

Goes somewhat crazy hanging out in nature on Earth C. (Where is Roxy? In The Mud. Of course.)

I cannot express in words as well, the sheer euphoria Roxy feels standing on the ground on Earth C. 

[sofipitch]

I was reading a collection of Māori myth retellings (Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers) and there I read the myth of the creation of the first woman, Hine-nui-te-pō, which was very similar to John and Alecto's story. She was molded from the earth/dirt by the god Tane, and she was his wife until she ran away, ashamed because he was her father and husband, and became a goddess of darkness and death/underworld. Here's a link to a very short summary of the myth. The way the book presented the creation myth was the standard, men longed for company/sex, but she does seem to be a fairly important and powerful goddess (killed the hero Maui) which differs from John's comparison of Alecto to other women who were created in stories

[heavenbarnes]

hey congrats on your new queen!

thank you so much 🫶🏼 feel blessed to live in a time to see ngā wai hono i te pō as our kuīni of the kīngitanga

[rowenabean]

Kua hinga te tōtara i te wao nui a Tane. Moe mai, moe mai, moe mai rā.

Nei rā te mihi ki a Kuini Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō. E mihi atu ki te kuini tūturu o te motu nei.

[tinystepsforward]

Everyone seems to say that poetry should be personal, that it is primarily a format to expand of the fullness of your emotional or psychic interior, but what does it mean when all the poetry you're good at writing isn't that. When poetry is more about storytelling or thinking about things unrelated to you or just about the words your mind makes when it decides it wants to, then about yourself?

this is a really interesting question with a bunch of moving parts! the short version is that i think all poetry has an interiority to it, and that the subject of the poem does not need to expose that interiority explicitly to the cold outside air.

i think that no matter what story you are telling ⁠— no matter what you are communicating, at all, ever, in almost every non-corporate context and then some ⁠— you are saying something about yourself. you are saying that you enjoy the way certain words feel in order on your tongue, behind your teeth, in your ears or mind. you are saying that you think about certain things, that stories follow a certain arc, simply that you like to write and want to write enough that you sat down and did it.

(you, specifically, have followed me long enough on here and on twitter to get a sense of the ways i communicate as a person. every tweet i make, my cadence and the vocabulary i have ⁠— that all tells people a lot about me, i think. how i think. how i share myself with the world.)

i think poetry is often portrayed, especially in younger or queerer circles, as a vent outlet ⁠— as the medium you go to when you have feelings too big for full sentences, more or less. and maybe that's what you mean! but the thing about poetry that anchors it to reflection or emotion is that it is a form which is about being willing to feel, as the reader. to be presented with something that is not communication in the other ways we're used to it ⁠— coherent stories and missives arrayed as grammatically correct sequential sentences ⁠— and to have the structure and sense of it come into being in our hearts as we look at it, or as we excise it from ourselves.

many, many poems move me not because they are autobiographical excisions of personal grief or joy or trauma, but because of what they tell me about my own emotions. here's a random assortment which are ostensibly about things unrelated to their authors, or which tell tales, and which move me not despite this but because of it:

Is it cruelty? by Rebecca Hawkes

[Kills bugs dead.] by Harryette Mullen

Let's not build a film museum by Zoe Higgins

Two Sewing by Hazel Hall

the entirety of essa may ranapiri's Echidna but here's one poem by them: Hine-nui-te-pō & the Dominant Species

i could go on and on but i'll actually answer your question, as far as i understand it! what does it mean to write poetry about things that aren't the inside of your mind?

it means you're a poet! everything and anything is within the scope of poetry, within the scope of your wandering mind thinking: this is something i want to bottle, this is something wonderful, this is something that just is and i am writing it down. and that's the music of it, the joy and splendour of it ⁠— discovering a new poet's voice, and seeing something through their eyes that i'd never seen before. and feeling something move in me, too.

[hastohurtifitstoheal]

E ai ki tētahi matakite tuauri ka puta mai ‘ngā manu mātauranga e rua’ ki runga ake i te tihi o Taranaki. Ko aua ‘manu e rua’ ko Te Whiti-o-Rongomai rāua ko Tohu Kākahi – nā rāua te hapori whakamārie o Parihaka i whakatū i te pūtake o te Maunga o Taranaki, he punanga i whakaruruhau i ngā Māori i haukerekerehia ai i ngā raupatu whenua o ngā tekautau o 1860. Ko rāua ngā kaihautū o te ātetenga whakamārie ki te whakahēnga o te Karauna i te tino rangatiratanga Māori, ki te horomi haere a tauiwi i te whenua Māori.

Kei te heke te pō i te Resurrection of Te Whiti Over Taranaki, 1975–77. Kei te ū tonu te Maunga o Taranaki hei tohu o te mana o te iwi o Taranaki. Kei te pupuri te manu kōrero, a Te Whiti, i te raukura, he awe toroa e tohu ana i tōna kaupapa, arā, te maungārongo me te ngākau aroha.

He kaikawerongo, he ringa toi hoki, a Selwyn Muru, ā, kua arotahi ia ki te whakapāho i te tirohanga Māori e pā ana ki te hītori, ki ngā āhuatanga o te wā, ki ngā takakinotanga e haere ake nei, e haere ake nei. Ko ēnei toi peita e rua, he wāhanga nō tētahi huinga toi peita e 37 i oti ai i a Selwyn whai muri atu i tōna haerenga ki Parihaka i te wā o te hui nui mā ngā ringa toi me ngā ringa tuhi i Waitara, i te tau 1975. I te wā o te whakaaturanga i te tau 1979 ka puta te wawata o Muru kia tū āna toi hei pou whakamauru i ngā raruraru kei waenga i te Māori me te Pākehā mā te wānanga: ‘Ko tā te marae he whakaōrite i te tangata. Ko te tūmanako ia, ka pērātia tā te whare whakairi toi.’

An ancient prophecy foretold the appearance of ‘two birds of knowledge’ over the peak of Taranaki. These ‘two birds’, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi established the pacifist community of Parihaka, on the foothills of Mount Taranaki, which offered hope and refugee for Māori who suffered land confiscations in the 1860s. They led their people in a peaceful resistance against the Crown’s denial of Māori sovereign rights and settler immigrants’ encroachment on Māori land.

Night is falling in Resurrection of Te Whiti Over Taranaki, 1975–77. Mount Taranaki, the symbol of the Taranaki people’s mana (power) remains steadfast. Master orator Te Whiti, holds the raukura, three albatross feathers, symbolic of peace and goodwill that he preaches.

As both a journalist and artist, Selwyn Muru has focused on communicating Māori perspectives of history, contemporary life and ongoing injustices. These two paintings are part of a suite of 37 paintings that Selwyn produced after visiting Parihaka during the 1975 Māori artists and writers hui in Waitara. At the time of their exhibition in 1979, Muru expressed his hope that his work could assist in reconciling conflicts between Māori and Pākehā through the promotion of dialogue: ‘The marae is a great leveller. Hopefully the gallery will be one too.'

Title:

Resurrection of Te Whiti over Taranaki

Selwyn Muru

Production date 1975-1977 Medium oil on board Dimensions 1220 x 1357 mm Credit line Courtesy of Muru Whānau

[trucbiduleschouettes]

‘Te Ahi Kai Pō’ Live at the Auckland Town Hall with the APO and Ngā Tūma...

[droptheguillotineplease]

Māori goddess of the night and death Hine-nui-te-pō with a pīwakawaka