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Anderson
Whanau
Influencing my art and life
Pokarekare ana
 New Zealand Maori Love Song 
Unconditional Love
Words by Sandy Stevenson

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"Manaia"

 

  Spiritual Guardian, Provider, Protector over the air, waters and land.

  The manaia is a supernatural being, an iwi guardian, to ward off danger, to frighten away intruders.

  The figures are usually depicted in side profile - part in the spiritual world, part in this.

  It is traditionally depicted with the head of a bird, the body of a man and the tail of a fish -

  creating a balance between sky, earth and the sea.

 

 

Ngāti Ruanui

Aotea: is the canoe my Ancestors fled the Island Rangiātea
Turi: is my Ancestor who established his tribal area in South Taranaki
Taranaki: is the mountain
Waingongoro: is the river

 

Tāne-roroa  =  Uenuku-puanake

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Ruanui  =  Korie

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Ngāti Ruanui: my tribe.

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