Te Whakapapa (connection through people) -of a ‘divinity’ (whakapono; wairua/spirituality and mauri/life force)
Te Whakapapa –Michael Ocean
ko Io
*http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes01Reli-t1-body-d4-d3.html
te Kore (day) te Po (night)
(kaitiaki/guardians =helpers)
ko Ranginui (sky) ko Papatūānuku (earth)
(atuas, gods/goddesses, guardians, heavens)
ko Tāne-mahutu (forest, birds)
ko Tūmatauenga (war, human condition)
ko Tangaroa (sea, rivers, lakes; species of)
ko Tāwhirimātea (weather; ‘blind’ child)
ko Rongo-mā tāne (cooked kai; peace; marae)
ko Haumie-tiketike (wild, uncultivated kai)
ko Ruamoko (unborn; earthquakes)
Other Gods
- Ara Tiotio– god of whirlwinds and tornadoes
- Ārohirohi– goddess of mirages
- Auahitūroa– personification of comets, and the origin of fire
- Hine-nui-te-pō– goddess of night and death, and ruler of the underworld
- Ika-Roa– the fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way
- Ikatere– fish god; father of all sea creatures
- Io Matua Kore– supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest
- Kiwa– divine guardian of the ocean
- Kui– chthonic demigod
- Mahuika– fire goddess
- Makeatutara– father of Māui and guardian of the underworld
- Maru– god of fresh water, southern god of war
- Māui– demigod and culture hero
- Papatūānuku(Papa) – primordial earth mother
- Pūhaorangi– celestial god
- Punga– ancestor of sharks, lizard, rays and all things ugly
- Ranginui(Rangi) – primordial sky father
- Rehua– star god with the power of healing
- Rohe– goddess of the spirit world and wife of Māui
- Rongomai– the name of a number of separate beings
- Ruaumoko– god of volcanoes, earthquakes and seasons
- Tama-nui-te-rā– personification of the sun
- Tane-rore– personification of shimmering air
- Tangotango– celestial goddess
- Tāwhaki– supernatural being associated with thunder and lightning
- Te Uira– personification of lightning
- Tinirau– guardian of fish
- Tū-te-wehiwehi– father of all reptiles
- Uenuku– god of rainbows
- Urutengangana– god of the light
- Whaitiri– personification of thunder
- Whiro– lord of darkness and embodiment of evil
ko Maui ko Kupe (arrived 925AD)
Aotearoa New Zealand
te rangitira whakapono ko Master Linji Yixuan (died 866 China; Chan Mahayana Buddhism of the Dhyana School, which became the Rinzai School, Japan)
*https://www.lionsroar.com/ordinary-buddha/
te rangitira whakapono ko Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, (died 1273 Konya, Turkey, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic theologian and Sufi mystic)
*http://mevlana.net/sema.html
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
toku rangitira kaiarahi whakapono, ko Master Thich Nhat Hanh
(94 years old; 42nd generation of Linji, Zen Mahayana Buddhism, Viet Nam);
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nhất_Hạnh
[toku tuakana ko Ven. Geshe Sangey Thinley, he kaumatua whakapono, 78 years old, tuatahi (‘root’) teacher, Gelug tradition, Jam Tse Dhargyey Ling Buddhist Centre, Whangarei]
*https://www.mandala.org.nz/about/
toku kaiwhakahaere, ko Anton Bank, dharma teacher, Dharma Gaia, Centre of Mindfulness, Coromandel,
*https://www.dharmagaia.org
toku kaiwhakahaere, he mana wahine, ko Caitlin Bush dharma teacher, Centre of Mindfulness, Auckland, and, Dharma Gaia Centre of Mindfulness, Coromandel
*https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Health-Beauty/Centre-of-Mindful-Living-Auckland-2456771437890676/
toku kaumatua toi ko Max Gimblett, ONZM, HonD, 83 years old, artist and Zen Buddhist Renzai priest, New York, USA and Auckland, Aotearoa NZ *http://www.maxgimblett.com
ko Piritahi toku marae (nga hau e wha/of the four winds), no te Motu-Arai Roa e Waiheke (tangata whenua, manuhiri) *http://www.piritahimarae.net.nz
toku kaiwhāko Māori tuatahi, ko Jan Newton
ko Michael Ocean
”Authentic Belonging of the Heart, Relentless Heart” (Zen Buddhist practitioner)
“Long White Cloud DownUnder” (artist)
*https://vietnamenchantments.com/drawings-michael-ocean-dreamfire-latest-additions/
‘DREAMFire!’ (generic visual and ‘living’ performance artist)
taku akonga whangai (sponsored) ko Tenzin Nyima (15 years old), Sera Jey Monastic University, Bylakuppe, Mysore District, Karnataka *https://www.serajeymonastery.org
Te Whakapapa
Tēna koutou!
Tēna koutou!
Tēna koutou katoa!
Te Whakapapa
My ancestors/whakapapa
are all those of an indigenous culture who held a position of worth as a LGBTQIA+ person before being ‘colonised’; those of the “rainbow” culture who were murdered, disappeared, took their lives, died before their time through HIV/AIDS and/or lived with the denial or the honour of loving differently until death, and; those LGBTQIA+ babies/children/adolescents/adults/seniors who experience hate crimes on a daily basis and/or speak to the bias/prejudice/marginalisation/disenfranchisement from those who unknowingly and knowingly hold power throughout the secular and/or psychologies/philosophies/religions/spiritualities of the world.
Ko Tapuae-Uenuku toku maunga, Marlborough
Ko Wairau River toku awa and the context for the Wairau Massacre, (affray/incident) Tua Marina with Te Rauparaha of the Tangitane iwi, Ngati Toa tribe.
Ko Cloudy Bay/Koko-o-kupe toku moana to the east
and the Marlborough Sounds and Cook Strait to the north/te Tau Ihu o waka Māui (prow of Maui’s waka) 
My waka
is my ability as a seven year old child to hold a dream of a ‘different life’ for 20 years, and have it come to fruition! –”I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King.
Ko Waikawa, Waikawa Bay, Picton, toku marae, Aotearoa New Zealand
Ko Piritahi Marae toku marae, te Motu-Arai Roa/Waiheke Island, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
No te Motu-Arai Roa/Waiheke Is. ahau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
*Art, Artistry from Within*, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa, South Pacific Ocean. Michael Ocean 