Sep 27, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
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Kura MoeahuGuesteverybody, it's Ros here from Community Networks Aotearoa and it's my great pleasure to welcome Kura Moeaho to the studio and we're talking all about Māori Language Week.
And I'd like to tell you the mihi that Kura just spoke.
In English it says, cease the winds from the west, cease the winds from the south, let the breeze blow over the land, let the breeze blow over the ocean, let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharp frost, a touch of frost, an icy mist, join, gather, come together as one.
What a beautiful, beautiful starting, not only to our show, but also to many gatherings, meetings, Zooms.
Many of them start with this mihi.
And we at Community Networks say it every day before we start our day's work.
And when you think about the beauty of it, it's like a poem.
The words are beautiful and you can feel yourself in the place where this fisherman stood by the sea and he could see the frost twinkling on the waves and he could feel the fresh cold air and the wind blowing in his hair.
I looked up where this mihi came from and according to ancient knowledge, so there's not a surety about it, Scholar Pei Te Hurunui Jones, he said it is one of the oldest surviving karakia.
It's believed to have been composed over 800 years ago, shortly after the arrival of ancestors aboard either the Tainui or the Takatimu waka.
Takatimu and Tainui traditions, one traditional account links it to the final stanza of a longer karakia called Tua Tua, which tells how the Takatimu waka safely navigated a severe storm.
Tainui traditions often link it to its origins, to a fisherman heading out at dawn into cold coastal waters.
So it has a real, whatever the truth is, it doesn't matter.
It came from the ancestral waka, and it is a beautiful description of an early morning, a fisherman in the early morning about to go to sea.
It's just great.
Now, there is, by the way, something I didn't know, and that is there is a musical arrangement, which is a widely popular melody sung today, composed in 2005 by Takerao Hohua of Tainui.
So I did have a listen to it.
We won't play it.
Well, we might.
If we get time to play it, we'll play that.
But it was lovely.
everybody, it's Ros here from Community Networks Aotearoa and it's my great pleasure to welcome Kura Moeaho to the studio and we're talking all about Māori Language Week.
And I'd like to tell you the mihi that Kura just spoke.
In English it says, cease the winds from the west, cease the winds from the south, let the breeze blow over the land, let the breeze blow over the ocean, let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharp frost, a touch of frost, an icy mist, join, gather, come together as one.
What a beautiful, beautiful starting, not only to our show, but also to many gatherings, meetings, Zooms.
Many of them start with this mihi.
And we at Community Networks say it every day before we start our day's work.
And when you think about the beauty of it, it's like a poem.
The words are beautiful and you can feel yourself in the place where this fisherman stood by the sea and he could see the frost twinkling on the waves and he could feel the fresh cold air and the wind blowing in his hair.
I looked up where this mihi came from and according to ancient knowledge, so there's not a surety about it, Scholar Pei Te Hurunui Jones, he said it is one of the oldest surviving karakia.
It's believed to have been composed over 800 years ago, shortly after the arrival of ancestors aboard either the Tainui or the Takatimu waka.
Takatimu and Tainui traditions, one traditional account links it to the final stanza of a longer karakia called Tua Tua, which tells how the Takatimu waka safely navigated a severe storm.
Tainui traditions often link it to its origins, to a fisherman heading out at dawn into cold coastal waters.
So it has a real, whatever the truth is, it doesn't matter.
It came from the ancestral waka, and it is a beautiful description of an early morning, a fisherman in the early morning about to go to sea.
It's just great.
Now, there is, by the way, something I didn't know, and that is there is a musical arrangement, which is a widely popular melody sung today, composed in 2005 by Takerao Hohua of Tainui.
So I did have a listen to it.
We won't play it.
Well, we might.
If we get time to play it, we'll play that.
But it was lovely.
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