Māui Sacred Intent

We're here to bind. Tikitiki.

Ancestral bind. Māui.

Sacred bind. Māui Tikitiki.

Mā via. Ui question. Tikitiki topknot.

Topknot of sacred intent.

Māui Tikitiki a Taranga.

Bind the topknot of sacred intent and awaken.

We are the strands.

Here's how to do this.

Our first step is to make our head sacred again. Our ancestors do it like this.

Comb and dress the hair. Gather up the individual strands.

Bind them into a topknot. Unite it with the carved pin.

Adorn it with the toothed comb. Regale it with the white-tipped feather.

This is a ritual.

We know it as karakia. It's the backbone of holistic living.

We've been part of it a thousand times. We've done it a thousand times.

It is the ancient ritual of sacred intent. It's the ancestral system we use to bind ourselves together formally.

Which is important because if we do not have a way to bind our individual strands we cannot be our atua collective.

Which means we have no way of being sacred.

And that's a problem. Because it is our sacred intent alone which makes our head sacred.

We need our head sacred. Sacred is atua. Atua is collective. Collective is sacred. Me myself us. Collective intent makes our topknot. Of individual strands. Me myself I. Sacred intent is its pin.

This is karakia our ancestral binding system. It is the dedicated ritual of sacred intent that binds our human individual to our atua collective. We need to reclaim it. We need to refloat its intent to hit its target.

Our reclaiming needs to happen at two levels.

Level one is about giving personal context to karakia. The personal experience of it.

This is the combing and dressing of our hair.

Getting the knots out. Defining the strands.

Where they begin where they end.

What they’re doing. What they’re not doing.

How they’re doing it.

Gathering them up.

This is where we understand our individual and how this connects with our collective. Tangata individual atua collective.

Level two is about taking our personal understanding and doing something with it. This is the binding of the strands. To make the topknot.

Which means, everytime karakia is done, bring it back to purpose by asking for the intent of the people present.

It is our individual intent that gets bound.

Which is our very best whakapono belief. Very best tūmanako aspiration. In the moment.

By the ritual of sacred intent. Our very best aroha. Collective. Connected. Aroha.

With intent. Called choice.

Freedom of choice. Tāngata. Satisfy, express, satiate. Your choice.

The binding of beautiful unique bloomed choice.

Make this transparent as air.

This understanding is no small thing. It moves mountains.

Its doing realizes.

Our ancient binding ritual of sacred intent has a power of realization that joins dots.

To make huge pictures. For greatest clarity.

It is a mindset change and tectonic shift of seismic proportion. Such is the strength of our me myself I, individual-is-all gene, we are unable to recognize our collective self.

Ourselves in ourselves.

We are truly separated. As our ancients' timeless separation story intimately describes.

Separated for the moment at least.

But reconnection - for that's all it is - will come.

That's the other half of their origination narrative about Hinenuitepō and Māui. It describes the behaviour of reconnection.

The whole lot of it is our ancestral story of our purpose.

Directly connected through their words.

This is what the kawa of Io is.

Nature. How it behaves.

Which the old people studied to move past survive, to live and thrive.

Our ancients' art of together produces the Hawaiki state of kotahitanga holistic that we crave.

Hawaiki fulfills us. Hawaiki means fullfill complete.

Māui Tikitiki a Taranga is the beginning of the process.

Bind the sacred topknot with sacred intent and awaken.

This is their direct message in their words.

Māui sacred intent.

Tikitiki topknot.

Taranga awaken.

Ancestral technology.

If this resonates let's go next level. Chris Winitana

Ahorangi

Māui Tikitiki a Taranga bind the topknot of sacred intent and awaken