Read by the tongue
3 Māori (Te Reo Māori) proverbs read closely — filed under Family, Time, Humanism and 3 others; set beside cousins in Zulu, Akan, Mandarin (Confucius), Latin (Cicero) and 4 others.
Including essays filed under Te Reo Māori, Māori.
Ka mua, ka muri.
kah moo-ah, kah moo-ree
A Māori proverb faces the past to move forward — because in te ao Māori the past is in front of you. Akan, Confucius, and Cicero also turn to look behind, but each sees something different there.
He waka eke noa
he waka eke noa
Why Māori say we are a canoe everyone boards — and how Mandarin, Zulu, and English circle the same idea from inside very different cosmologies of belonging.
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata
he aha te mea nui o te ao? he tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata
Why a Māori whakataukī answers the question 'what matters most?' three times in succession with the same word — and how Zulu, Confucian, and Talmudic traditions reach for predication, fraternity, and a single saved soul to make the same case.
A canoe we are all in together.
He waka eke noa
Literally: A canoe (we) all board
Te Reo Māori · New Zealand
Set beside
We walk backwards into the future, our eyes fixed on the past.
Ka mua, ka muri.
kah moo-ah, kah moo-ree
Literally: The front, the back.
Māori (Te Reo Māori) · Aotearoa New Zealand
Set beside
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata
Literally: What the thing great of the world? It-is people, it-is people, it-is people
Māori · New Zealand
Set beside
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