Tikanga - Pukapuka

Question 1

‘Whakapāpaku i a koe, hei rangatiratanga mou’

Answer 1

To humble yourself is the attribute of the truly noble’

Question 2

whakapāpaku

Answer 2

(verb)(-tia) to humble, lower in dignity, humiliate, abase, debase, demean

Me whakapāpaku kē au i a au
I must humble myself.

Question 3

Kei te oreore tonu pēnā me te tuna

Answer 3

Still wriggling like the tuna

Question 4

Ngaro te kai
Ngaro te tangata ki te pō

Answer 4

(Just as food decomposes
So do humans provide nourishment to the natural cycle of life)

Question 5

Ko wai au?
Ko te wai au
Ko te hau ahau e

Answer 5

(Who am I?
I am the water
I am the wind)

Question 6

Taiohi

Answer 6

Young youth

Question 7

‘Kaua te ware e tū ki te marae’

Answer 7

'’Let not the ignorant stand to speak upon the marae”

Question 8

“Tangata akona ki te kāinga, tū ana ki te marae, tau ana”

Answer 8

‘When the person trained at home sands to speak on the maras, they are confident and at case’

Question 9

Tangata takahi manuhiri, he marae puehu

Answer 9

A person who insults or mistreats their guest has a dusty marae

Question 10

Te tai rā, te tai rā!
Te tai rā e pari ana ki whea?
E pari ana ki te kauheke, kaumātua
He tipua! He atua!

Answer 10

(Life’s tidal ebb and flow
Where does it flow to now?
It flows to the old fellow
He who has become one with our ancestors, and the elements!)

For male elder

Question 11

Welcome, ascend upon the marae that lays settled before you

Answer 11

Piki mai, kake mai, haere mai kite marae e tau nei -

Question 12

Tena koutou katoa e whakatau mai nei i tenei taiopenga -

Answer 12

Greetings to you all, those who have so graciously welcomed this group of guests

Question 13

Te pataka o te kupu kôrero a ngã matua, e tú, e tú, etü

Answer 13

The storehouse of the sacred words and knowledge of our ancestors, stand, stand strong

Question 14

Te marae kua makakú nei i te roimata, i te húpê, takoto mai, takoto mai

Answer 14

The sacred marae moistened by the tears and mucus spilt in sorrow. lay there, lay before us

Question 15

‘Waiho má te tangata e mihi

Answer 15

Let others sing your praises

Question 16

Tena koutou e kui ma, e koro ma

Answer 16

-Greetings to you, learned elders

Question 17

Tena koutou e ngã puna roimata, e ngã puna matauranga -

Answer 17

Greetings to you, the wellsprings of tears, the wellsprings of knowledge

Question 18

Tēnā koutou e ngā ringaringa me ngā waewae o te marae

Answer 18

Greetings to the very hands and feet that enabled our mare to function today

Question 19

Tēnā koutou e ngā ringa huti punga

Answer 19

Greetings to the mighty hands that can lift the anchor stone

Question 20

Haere e ngã mate huhua, haere ki te kapunipunitanga o te wairua

Answer 20

• Farewell to our many departed, go to the gathering of spirits

Question 21

Haere ki te huihuinga o te kahikatea, haere ki te huihuinga o te kahikatoa

Answer 21

Go to the assemblage of the great trees, the white pine and the red mânuka

Question 22

kahikātoa

Answer 22

(noun) red mānuka, tea-tree, Leptospermum scoparium - a common native scrub bush with aromatic, prickly leaves and many small, white, pink or red flowers

Question 23

Haere ki tua i te pae o maumahara

Answer 23

Go beyond the horizon of remembrance

Question 24

Haere mai enga manuhiri tuarangi e

Answer 24

Welcome visitors who have come from beyond the distant horizon

Question 25

Ahakoa te haka mai a Tawhirimatea, kua tae à-tinana mai koutou! Ka tere kitea te ngäkau ü tonu o te Mäori tüturu

Answer 25

Even though the weather god, Tawhirimätea, is engaged in his ferocious haka, you have braved the elements to be here in person! One soon recognises the rare commodity of the genuine Maori heart and its courage

Question 26

E mihi ana ki te kaupapa nāna nei tātou i whakakotahi ake i te rā nei

Answer 26

I acknowledge the purpose of this hui, that which has brought us together and unified us this day

Question 27

‘Korerorero te manu tüi. Ko te kereru, ngunguru kau ana

Answer 27

The tüi has a vocal range to be coveted whereas the bush pigeon merely coos’

Question 28

“Te Atiawa te toki te tangatanga i te ra’

Answer 28

‘Te Atiawa is an adze that cannot be loosened by the rays of the sun’

Question 29

Tukuna nga roimata kia heke, whiua te hüpe, a haruru te tapuwae ki te marae, ka ea, ka ea

Answer 29

Let the tears flow, let the mucus run freely, ather together at the marae to share in support of one another and the dearly departed will be honoured?

Question 30

Ka whati te tī, ka wana te tī, ka rito te tī ‘

Answer 30

When the cabbage tree breaks in two it eventually builds itself up and grows again?’

This whakataukī encourages us to have resilience like the cabbage tree.

Question 31

‘Ko te manu kai i te miro, nôna te ngahere. Ko te manu kai i te matauranga, nona te ao’

‘Ko te manu kai i te matauranga Mäori, môna te ao tukupù -

Answer 31

• The bird that consumes the miro berry, the forest belongs to them. The bird that consumes knowledge, the entire world belongs to them!

The bird that consumes Mäori knowledge, indigenous knowledge, for them a boundless universe awaits!

Question 32

ao tukupū

Answer 32

(noun) universe