where the conflict comes from: retrace whakapapa

Last week we got into te pakanga atua (the battle of the gods) on of the first major events to take place after the separation and to usher in the new age; Te Ao Mārama, the world of light.

The siblings (elements) fought with each other and so came to be the natural world as we know it today. That battle continues on within us on the daily and so it’s not a stretch to say that the conflict, dysfunction, chaos — allllllll the good stuff…

That’s the divine in us!!!

Ha who’d have thought?! What we inherited from the atua is what is so commonly described as the ‘humanity’ within us. Especially when it’s so easy to associate te ira atua (divine/god line) with things celestial, heavenly, ethereal and the like.*

The conflict, the friction, the parts of us that ‘don’t make sense’, that feel like they don’t fit, that war with each other within us (and with others..lol) is the god in us.

Maybe not all the ‘good’ stuff is from them, but just saying — let it marinade a little.

If we can trace conflict, friction and chaos back to our eldest ancestors, our cell memory has compounded those elements the most over time…. the light always comes, but we must remember and honour the sequence in which these phases unfold.

There was darkness and confusion (Te Pō) that phased into the world of light with the separation, into expansion and discovery (Te Kore), which kicked off another round of pō with the battle between the atua.

Each phase serves it’s purpose and retracing where the uncertainty and confusion comes from, helps to resolve the war within myself that arises now and then.

Tēnā tātou,

Hana.

*courtesy of christian/church/colonial influence.