Morning all, Blessings Div, and
to Eve
'The families of Rapuwai and Waitaha stood in the land'It was time to part. If the Nation was to grow within this land some would be called to build the gardens and fish the waters, and others to explore the land, chart the movement of the stars and walk with the stone.
Our waka carried three peoples. The Tohunga reached into three old iwi to choose the families to settle Aotea Roa. Each went back to ancient mana trees that grew in different soils, drank of different waters, produced different fruits and were touched by different seasons. Their ancestors gazed out on different oceans under different stars. Some were born under the bright light of Rehia, and others under Rehua, to be divided by the widest waters in the world.
They came from the four winds. Some were dark skinned and some were white, yet they gathered at Waitangi Ki Roto and lived as one. They learned to speak as one and work as one in the interest of all. We honour forever the three coloured strands that came together in this land to bind the heart, mind and spirit of the Nation...
Uru Kehu were the children of Kiwa, the golden ones, the short people with pale freckled skin, blue eyes and fair or red hair. They came to Waitangi Ki Roto out of the rising Sun.
Maoriori looked back to Hotu Matua, for they were a dark skinned, very tall, big boned people, with dark eyes and long black hair. Their trial began in the lands of the setting sun.
Kiritea were small and fair skinned and had long black hair and green eyes. Their features carried the marks of the tallest of all mountains, and the enduring qualities of the stone.
...Song of Waitaha...
