Disarming, Maori heedings, what's the point if you're killing for love

the quieter kinds of courage

Had a dream the other morning-- learning how to quickly and intuitively make a firearm safe


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Amazing to see and hear this documentary completely in Maori, so much culture rooted, alive, and preserved in it. 

 

 

I first learned about one of the Maori's victories over the British from the Battle of Gate Pa* (Sp.? will need to check in a minute) -- in which they successfully used tunnels and bunkers to withstand heavy artillery fire. The Youtuber and amateur [military] historian, Lindybeige, goes into detail with various accounts and tells a story about this battle of asymetric warfare--and credited with likely being the first to employ trench warfare.

About a year or two (maybe three) later, this story pops up into my screen--or perhaps more accurately, documentary *BY THE MAORI THEMSELVES!* -- and that starts to touch on what's most thrilling about it all. We can understand whatever English subtitles can convey, but seeing real descendents, youth, and elders reciting the history, creating for an important 150year ceremony, and continuing the legacy while hearing it in their heart's language is something that words like beautiful can hardly begin to describe:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AjiK-NYOAEU

 

Also, the trenches were inspired by observing trenches made by eels--and the people who devised the strategy are still remembered and known!

 

Later today, I returned to Jose Gonzalez's song, Killing for Love and Cycling Trivialities which I hadn' heard in many years