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In the 1980s and 1990s Pere published books and curriculum. Her books Ako and Te Wheke have had lasting impact. In later years Pere worked with many people sharing her knowledge about plants, living with nature, and healing. [4] [7] A well-known saying of Pere's is: "He atua, he tangata. We are both beautifully divine and beautifully human." [4]
Another theory for Te Wheke-a-Muturangi states that the name actually refers to the many navigation paths centred on Ra'iātea with the tentacles reaching out across the pacific (Tetahiotupa 2009). [ 1 ]
In Māori mythology, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi is a monstrous octopus destroyed in Whekenui Bay, Tory Channel or at Patea by Kupe the navigator. The octopus was a pet or familiar of Muturangi, a powerful tohunga of Hawaiki. The wheke was nonetheless a wild creature and a guardian. When Kupe reached New Zealand, he encountered the beast off Castlepoint.
Kupe followed in his canoe a monstrous octopus called Te Wheke-a-Muturangi across Cook Strait and destroyed it in Tory Channel or at Pātea. When Dutch explorer Abel Tasman first saw New Zealand in 1642, he thought Cook Strait was a bight closed to the east. He named it Zeehaen's Bight, after the Zeehaen, one of the two ships in his expedition.
Mātauranga was traditionally preserved through spoken language, including songs, supplemented carving weaving, and painting, including tattoos. [10] Since colonisation, mātauranga has been preserved and shared through writing, first by non-Māori anthropologists and missionaries, then by Māori.
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