Te One i Mūrea: clearing the weeds from our sacred home

One

(n)fertile soil, earth, sand.

The meaning in this context is derived from ‘te one i Kurawaka’ the sacred soil of Kurawaka, origin of humankind, where Hineahuone was fashioned.

Mūrea

(n)cleared of weeds or waste

Te One i Mūrea denotes a homecoming. An active, intentional, careful clearing away of that which doesn’t nourish or nurture us, in any way. In all the ways. Captured, documented and preserved in writing.

Nau mai. Hoake tātou.

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Please join me in this return home. Join me in remembering, uncovering and reconnecting to self. Kia mūrea, to clear away the weeds (metaphorical or literal) that have accumulated in our lives, to ‘take back the river,’ to make time for the places, the people and things that nourish us.

Like my first blog, Hina, this one will be based on tupuna mātauranga, Māori ancestral knowledge and share 28495230+ reasons why whakapapa is amazing and holds the answers to any and everything. But unlike Hina, this blog will be sporadic - I’ll commit to at least one post a month - because my life currently, is also sporadic.

The main cues that guide me come instead from a tiny atua who made me a māmā and reaffirmed the connection to Kurawaka in a way I’d never known or felt before. Naturally, other cues have been missed and ignored in this season. But that’s ok. There are different phases for different phases and now I’m entering a space where I make more deliberate steps to clear the overgrowth on the pathway leading back home.

Tēnā tātou.