Connecting to the Religion of Broadband with wisdom woman
It is not easy to read an article referring to "biblical rubies" and Proverbs 31 without mentioning "this woman of wisdom."
Te Arikinui Dame TeAtairangikaahu .
He tokomaha nga tamahine i u te pai o ta ratou mahi,
otiia hira ake tau i a ratou katoa. (Whakatauki 31: 29).
Many daughters have done virtuously
but you excell them all. ( Proverbs 31:29 )
Tomorrow morning at 6.00am I will be travelling (with my tribes Te Rarawa and Te Aupouri) down to Turangawaewae to the Maori Queen's tangi.
As I watch the Queen's tangi on televison, read the news and checkout the internet I think of the marvellous way broadband communication has brought her "tangi" into our homes these past few days. Never before have we been inside the royal marae where such awesome "mana" has lain or been layed down.
Yet there is pensive sadness. The Maori tangi that normally takes place behind closed doors has gone public. Private moments (similar to like Bach's private faith), finds very public outlets through the media's appetite for voices, stories and choices.
And the viewer is caught up in the blatant religious imagery (hymns, music, popular rhetoric, clergy presence, carvings, etc....), produced by camera men, the newsreaders, the websites, and newspaper citations from from the internet - all reporting this memorable moment. A reminder of technology and broadbanding at its best. Not so for private grieving.
What profound "korero - talk will she take to her ancestors - now that we have electronic sights that are far beyond our own understanding.
What legacy does she leave?
"The gift of community? She received the Maori people/world as a gift from the Creator and used it to nurture and be nurtured by relationships of trust and caring - she bulit a community holding gently together "religion, media and politics " to live in praise of God "(talk from Maori elder).
Broadbanding can also cultivate affirming communities by creating interrelationships between religion, politics, and media. It is my hope, otherwise like 9/11 we too will be left with the religious smoke around the tangi event and the different interpretations of it.
Watch for swelling pendulum to stop swinging when the new heir is announced. Unless we buy the video the tangi all memories/moments will fade rapidly while broadband offers us sensationalism elswhere.
Farewell Te Atairangikaahu we know when you meet again with your ancestors
"you will speak noble things
and from your lips will come what is right" (Prov 8:6).
Te Atapo - the dawn
Te Arikinui Dame TeAtairangikaahu .
He tokomaha nga tamahine i u te pai o ta ratou mahi,
otiia hira ake tau i a ratou katoa. (Whakatauki 31: 29).
Many daughters have done virtuously
but you excell them all. ( Proverbs 31:29 )
Tomorrow morning at 6.00am I will be travelling (with my tribes Te Rarawa and Te Aupouri) down to Turangawaewae to the Maori Queen's tangi.
As I watch the Queen's tangi on televison, read the news and checkout the internet I think of the marvellous way broadband communication has brought her "tangi" into our homes these past few days. Never before have we been inside the royal marae where such awesome "mana" has lain or been layed down.
Yet there is pensive sadness. The Maori tangi that normally takes place behind closed doors has gone public. Private moments (similar to like Bach's private faith), finds very public outlets through the media's appetite for voices, stories and choices.
And the viewer is caught up in the blatant religious imagery (hymns, music, popular rhetoric, clergy presence, carvings, etc....), produced by camera men, the newsreaders, the websites, and newspaper citations from from the internet - all reporting this memorable moment. A reminder of technology and broadbanding at its best. Not so for private grieving.
What profound "korero - talk will she take to her ancestors - now that we have electronic sights that are far beyond our own understanding.
What legacy does she leave?
"The gift of community? She received the Maori people/world as a gift from the Creator and used it to nurture and be nurtured by relationships of trust and caring - she bulit a community holding gently together "religion, media and politics " to live in praise of God "(talk from Maori elder).
Broadbanding can also cultivate affirming communities by creating interrelationships between religion, politics, and media. It is my hope, otherwise like 9/11 we too will be left with the religious smoke around the tangi event and the different interpretations of it.
Watch for swelling pendulum to stop swinging when the new heir is announced. Unless we buy the video the tangi all memories/moments will fade rapidly while broadband offers us sensationalism elswhere.
Farewell Te Atairangikaahu we know when you meet again with your ancestors
"you will speak noble things
and from your lips will come what is right" (Prov 8:6).
Te Atapo - the dawn
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