Pouroto Ngaropo, standing on an ancient settlement site overlooking the island o...
WHAKATANE, New Zealand - Pouroto Ngaropo, standing on an ancient settlement site overlooking the island of Whakaari, recites his ancestry back thousands of years, back to the volcano which erupted there on Monday.
The volcano island off New Zealand’s North Island holds deep spiritual significance for his iwi or tribe, Ngāti Awa, which also own the company that ran tours there before the eruption. The morning after the eruption, Ngaropo went out with two others at 4 a.m. - the time when he says the connection with the spiritual world is strongest.
“We can’t because Whakaari is in a state of mourning, her descendants have passed on and they’re lying dead, still there on the island. The rāhui protects all of those things, it protects their spiritual right to have a proper burial ceremony,” he said.The spiritual and cultural restrictions will last until all remains had been returned to families, Ngaropo said. When that happens, he will go out again, early in the morning, to lift the prohibition.
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