(4) Te Kore, te Pō, te Ao Mārama - The origins of Tikanga Māori

Discussion questions

1. What are the origins of tikanga Māori?

2. What do the origins tell us about how tikanga Māori is defined?

3. What is the Māori conception of land?

4. How does tikanga Māori regulate the relationship between the land and people?

(Tikanga Maori in relation to land)

Tikanga Maori rules/Tikanga are produced by themselves (minds)

-Values, principles, expectations, individually/collectively

Sources: Tipuna (first ancestors, grand knowledge), Oral histories

Te Kore: Nothingness (unlimited potential)

Te Po: Darkness and ignorance (Emergence of atua)

Te Ao: Enlightenment (Knowledge)

(Period of time)

Papatuanuku and Ranginui (seperation-law lense) + Children

How is Tikanga maori defined?

5 PRINCIPLES OF TIKANGA MAORI:

How does it relate to an issue? What way? Is it relavant?

Idea of Tapu (personal integrity, acting was a breach), Mana (authority of parents, children wanting control, having a voice), Utu (tension leading to rebellious- final stage), values being addressed within a narrative-legal lense, Ea (new, acceptance, reality, creation) Rahui (restrictions, relevant to tapu)

Turangawaewae (place to stand), source of sustenance, foundation of te reo maori, (maori words: relate to land) foundation of rangatiratanga, whakaruruha

Land- (placenta, land:two meanings of land in Maori) how connected Maori are to their land, nurtured/being nurtured (kaitiakitanga),

IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTEDNESS

Announcing a rahui (because of an incident.. we are issuing a rahui that a restriction is put on acess to Whakaari (2019), excercise of rahui (tapu)

Environment wise