Te hau, te āwhā, te huarere
Say it: TAH-fee-ree-MAH-teh-ah · Tāwhiri = to wave, beckon; mātea = ?, read broadly as the beckoning winds.
The only sibling who refused the separation. Tāwhirimātea is honest feeling — grief, anger, and the force that clears the air.
Ko wai tēnei? — in plain words
The winds and the weather. He was the only brother who opposed the separation of their parents, and he has fought his siblings ever since — which is why storms hit forest, sea and crops.
Whanaungatanga: Son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku; the one who stayed with his father in the sky.
Where you already meet them
Te kōrero — the story
Enraged at the parting of his parents, Tāwhirimātea tore out his eyes and cast them into the heavens, where they became Matariki. He remains in the sky with Ranginui, sending wind and rain against his brothers — a reminder that strong feeling is not a fault, but weather.
A common misunderstanding
He isn't the 'bad brother'. He is loyalty and grief expressed as force. Māori thought does not split the world into good and evil beings.
Ngā uara
Pono
Feel the truth of it before acting.
Tūmanako
Every storm passes over.
If you are new to this — start here
Take four slow breaths outdoors and name what the wind is doing today.
I tēnei ao — acknowledging today
He mihi
Whakataka te hau ki te uru, whakataka te hau ki te tonga.
Cease the wind from the west, cease the wind from the south.
Ngā taha o te ora