THE MEANING OF OUR TUKUTUKU
Before I tell you guys the story we named our tukutuku Te wehenga ā Papa-tū-ā-nuku raua ko Ranginui. While Papa-tu-ā-nuku and Ranginui were still together they were slowly falling apart from each other and when they were slowly falling apart they had a feeling that they would never see each other again. When Papa-tu-ā-nuku and Ranginui got separated the children were happy because they had at last freedom. When they were seperated there became a balance between darkness and light the atua had realised that they had made a terrible mistake by separating their parents. After the humans arrival everything started to get oddly strange and they called this climate change. Climate change is where the environment changes like water pollution, flooding and earthquakes. Bad chemicals going into our awa, deforestation, air pollution, sea levels rising, temperatures are rising, lower soil affecting our rainforest. Humans decided to throw rubbish around only thinking about themselves and not Papa-tua-nuku or Ranginui.
THE PERSON THAT INSPIRED US?
Heene kerekere was the person because
She was asked to teach floor mats at 4 different marae in her rohe. We also liked her because She learnt how to weave in the early 1980s.
WHAT COLOURS DID WE USE?
Green represents Papa-tū-ā-nuku
Black represents Ranginui and the separation
Red represents Tumatauenga
Yellow represents Rongomatāne
Blue represents Tangaroa and Tāwhirimatea.
