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Legends of Aotearoa
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| NZ$ 50.00 each |
| Paperback |
| Author: Andy Reisinger & Chris Winitana |
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It was a pristine world, green, natural, untainted. Aotearoa New Zealand was covered with gigantic trees and delicate ferns, a landscape teeming with wildlife, especially birds of impossible shapes and heavenly sounds. It was paradise.
Then people came. And as the centuries passed, a little more of the land was despoiled, a few more species of wildlife disappeared forever. But the original Maori settlers remembered the land as it was and recorded its life in elaborate and splendid stories that became the legends of Aotearoa.
Now, in this breathtaking book, Chris Winitana re-tells fourteen of the favourite stories of the Maori people, accompanied by over one hundred colour photographs by Andy Reisinger that show the paradise that was - and is - New Zealand. The book includes many of the best-known stories - the legends of Maui, Kupe, the Arawa canoe, Rona and the moon - and some less well known, such as the legend of the walking
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Oriori: A Maori Child is BornFrom Conception to Birth
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| Author: Robyn Kahukiwa & Roma Potiki |
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Selected as one of the Top 20 titles of the 1999 Listener Women's Book Festival.
An Oriori is a chant or lullaby that welcomes a newborn Maori child into this world. At once celebratory and cautionary, it is composed by the child's parents or extended family as a mark of respect for the new life.
Here, Robyn Kahukiwa's magical images and Roma Potiki's powerful words combine to tell the story of one child's conception, gestation and birth. They call on ancient stories associated with the gifting by the mother of the spirit, heart and knowledge of the child - the way the whanau had of passing the wisdom of the iwi to the next generation.
In Oriori we hear many voices - mother to child, whanau to mother, gods to child, but, above all, that of the mother as she prepares her child and herself for the birth.
I realise that I am also all the generations,
a precious vessel.
I ask for help from all sides of
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