Basement Kahuna -New Maori Bone Pendant 3/04 - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Tue, Oct 3, 2006 5:42 PM Were you Haka-fans aware that the All Blacks came up with a new one this year? It has only been performed a couple of times. The old/trad haka 'Ka mate' is not really an appropriate statement for NZ as a whole, because it was originally 'sung' by the cheif Te Raparaha after narrowly avoiding capture (during a mass killing spree in the South Island... As such, there has/had been much talk of creating one for NZ/Rugby in general. Its damn cool with a knarly 'cut-your-throat' action at the end... I would hate to be standing on the wrong team when it was performed!! *I saw Ka mate performed by the Nelson Bays provincial team (& joined by about 50+ highschool students on the field) when CCCP/Russia toured NZ several years ago. Try to imagine 65+ big tough blokes bellowing their lungs out in unison, then echoed back by surrounding hills... Oh MAN, talk about chills!! Raaaarrrgh!!! T3

Were you Haka-fans aware that the All Blacks came up with a new one this year? It has only been performed a couple of times. The old/trad haka 'Ka mate' is not really an appropriate statement for NZ as a whole, because it was originally 'sung' by the cheif Te Raparaha after narrowly avoiding capture (during a mass killing spree in the South Island... As such, there has/had been much talk of creating one for NZ/Rugby in general. Its damn cool with a knarly 'cut-your-throat' action at the end... I would hate to be standing on the wrong team when it was performed!!

*I saw Ka mate performed by the Nelson Bays provincial team (& joined by about 50+ highschool students on the field) when CCCP/Russia toured NZ several years ago. Try to imagine 65+ big tough blokes bellowing their lungs out in unison, then echoed back by surrounding hills... Oh MAN, talk about chills!! Raaaarrrgh!!! T3

Post #258767 by Tamapoutini on Tue, Oct 3, 2006 5:42 PM