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Marama<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Some peoples follow the sun, but our life is joined to the phases of the moon, Marama.\u00a0 Our lives are counted by the nights, not the days.\u00a0 We listen to the internal rythems and the energies of nature that flow from Marama.\u00a0 Impelled by the skies, they skim along the seas, raising and lowering the tides, taking the ocean currents to unendingly far places and raising the sap in the trees of our forests.\u00a0 Within ourselves, the tides also rise and fall.\u00a0 The currents of procreation and conception flow in men and women through the energy of the moon.<\/p>\n

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The moon lifts the spirit, soul and body, so that we can fulfill tasks which surpass our usual strength, free energies to teach and learn, think and do, as in no other moment.\u00a0 When it wanes, we retire to plan the things that we propose for when the light returns.\u00a0 Each year, Marama and her children, the stars, reveal to us the time to plant and to harvest, to fish and to hunt, when it is time to sail to new lands and when it is time to marry.\u00a0 The children born under the light of the full moon are the children of Marama, the \u201cAriki\u201d, distinguished by their \u201cVarua\u201d.By the light of the waxing moon our mothers observe their children to discover the path of their \u201cVarua\u201d.\u00a0 They find that some are active and full of curiosity, gathering insects and small fish, investigating, asking many questions.\u00a0 Their souls soar like a falcon following the route of the rainbow to observe the stars.\u00a0 They carry within themselves the \u201cVarua\u201d with the sacred knowledge of the ancestors.\u00a0 There are also children who are nervous with the light of Marama and release their anger through working the land, building walls of stone or water courses.\u00a0 Some, on the other hand, resist directing their force into community work, prefering to beat their brothers and sisters until they leave them crippled.\u00a0 Those travel the ways of the lost.\u00a0 Finally yet some remain seated tranquilly tending the fire until the others return.<\/p>\n

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Marama separates the waters of the soul and leads us to the paths of the spirit.\u00a0 Sometimes a child is born with a \u201cVarua\u201d older than old, with a deep wisdom that is greater than his Mauri (physical body), his Ha (strength of heart) and his Hau (breath).\u00a0 He is too young to follow the long road of the the \u201cVarua\u201d and stays only a short time in this world.\u00a0 During our birth, we each seek our \u201cVarua\u201d from among the stars, and with our death that \u201cVarua\u201d returns to them.<\/p>\n

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