Name: Te Tangi Te Keo
Duration: P00H01M42S
Description: Named for Whātaitai, a taniwha whose soul left his body and turned into a great bird which soared to the top of Matairangi where it mourned for it’s body and life. This mountain is also a viewing point for many of Wellington’s pa sites including the ridge pa Te Whetukairangi which has connections to our whanauka from Ngai Tara, Kāti Māmoe and Kai Tahu.

Te Tangi Te Keo

from Pōneke by Ruby Solly

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Named for Whātaitai, a taniwha whose soul left his body and turned into a great bird which soared to the top of Matairangi where it mourned for it’s body and life. This mountain is also a viewing point for many of Wellington’s pa sites including the ridge pa Te Whetukairangi which has connections to our whanauka from Ngai Tara, Kāti Māmoe and Kai Tahu.

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Whātaitai,
I stand atop Matairangi
where you sung yourself home
as a great bird.
Here in your standing place
I too mourn all the bodies
I no longer live within.
Here a white bird
takes up a piece of sky,
sings its mechanical hum
all the way back to the islands.
Whātaitai,
we travel now not in song
but in sound.

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from Pōneke, released June 5, 2020

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Ruby Solly Wellington, New Zealand

Ruby Solly (Kai Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a musician, writer and taonga puoro practitioner living in Pōneke, Aotearoa. Her first album 'Pōneke' explores the hidden histories of Wellington as well as the part that the environment plays within the recording and composing process. ... more

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