What a Hongi Means

At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Peri shares a song in her own language. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways and the importance of learning to understand and respect different peoples, cultures, traditions and the environment around us. For more, check out www.globalonenessproject.org

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[ToWYoMama]

You know the Hongi has facinated me for some reason alot (had to watch Whale Rider for a class assignment, and the Maori very interesting).

Also I am glad she said it caise i was pronouncing it wrong

[dtps89]

@wairuauriaw haha... i think its global oneness instead.

[Rotavegas1]

sorry but I beg to differ concerning the killing of babies in Maori time....children were not murdered wether they were halfcast or girls....where does prof Moon get his info from I like to know...

[wairuauriaw]

what is Glob aloneness? why is glob alone?

[tehirapere]

@please7780 My information has been transmitted to me from our ancient ancestors, and I continue to practice what I was taught by my Speaking Mountains, my Mentors, the Old People who brought me up. We are descended from both the ancient people and the people who came in the Great Fleet. Many of the negative things that have been said about the way we treat children and each other, is not truly reflective of our ancient people. We are regarded as the finest conservationists & Social Scientists

[please7780]

hmmm every people has something in their history that they are not happy with. I'd like to know where you got your information from?

[MoralInvasion]

@RiaPaki Yes infanticide was an accepted part of Maori culture and was and still is widely practiced. Half of all children in NZ state care are of Maori descent, Maoris have the highest rate of abuse related child head trauma in the world and the second highest rate of child murder after the Australian Aboriginies.

[MoralInvasion]

@RiaPaki In Prof Paul Moon's book about Maori cannibalism, Moon wrote that “infanticide was said by some early European visitors to Maori settlements to be widespread - particularly the killing of baby girls (who would never grow into warriors), taurekareka (slaves captured in battle), and half-caste children.” The four main methods of killing unwanted children were “compressing the temples of a child, strangulation, drowning the child in a stone-filled basket, and suffocation.

[aaronbaker38]

meke ..

[edavisdavis]

I like the eyebrows symbolysing bird wings,I didn,t see it like that,now I do.

For myself the hongi is not really about the nose which is what people focus on but

the eyes where they see into one anothers soul as they meet during the act.Once the eye to eye contact is made,the trust of the conversation then begins as you speak from words that create life

peace