Totems,
Kaitiaki, Guardians
If
you talk to the animals, the plants, the ancient ones and the nature,spirits
hey will talk to you And you will know each other, if you do not
talk to each of them, You will not know them, and what you do not
know you will fear. What one fears one destroys? To the ancient
ones and many names given to the special nature people and energies,
I pay my deep respects and wish to dedicate this workshop to the
life-force of nature. Almost every culture on our planet acknowledge
the existence of the nature people spirits all attached to nature
the woods or forests.
They are often attached to magic
of the plant medicines all of them are a little feared and are attached
to weaving magic spells. I come from a very beautiful country that
in the past was even more beautiful sadly a lot of our forests and
birds fell victims of colonisation of the west. This has caused
the indigenous people to place protection tapu on the remaining
Land Sea and air we being the guardians. To encourage the peoples
to practice ecology as their ancestors before them.
My people the indigenous of
Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) also known as New Zealand
communicated with the animals, birds, fish, trees all plant life.
They acknowledged and recognised the God of the Sea Tangaroa God
of the Forest Tane Mahuta God of cultivated food and medicine the
gentle one Rongoa and God of Earth Quakes Ruamoko and many other
gods of nature or the planet. Animal, vegetable, and mineral are
all mother earth Papatuanuku this approach to nature is still recognised
and practiced to this day.
As a child I talked and played
with the nature fairies Patupaiarehu they were called. Many of us
saw them. When one needs food in the forest we must karakia to the
god of the forest etc. We also must hear the request of the nature
spirits and the totems and if the request is reasonable and within
our power we will carry out their quests.
We expect the same service if
our request are reasonable. As you know I still need to korero with
nature (talk)
