The Waitaha
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The Waitaha
Waitaha were a people who held a unique place within the Lineage of the Ageless Wisdom.
The land that they held most sacred were the islands of New Zealand, and this is where they settled as a people for centuries upon centuries. From here they traveled upon the great ocean currents, forming connections with other peoples throughout the Pacific and beyond. They were very much a people who embraced others and sought unity with all, and their practical wisdom and union with the divine powered their expansion and sense of purpose throughout the generations. This was their expression of the Ageless Wisdom, a lived way that was honoured in their everyway, rather than through a written language or scribe, and it was passed on through their living way to all whom aligned with them.
The origins of Waitaha are as old as old, going back to the catastrophic ending of Atlantis many thousands of years ago. There have been several waves of settlement of the sacred lands of New Zealand, all held under the cloak of Waitaha. The seedings have always come from East to West and from North to South. In this way, Waitaha honoured the four directions both of the Earth herself in relation to the Stars with which she is configured; and equally from within the people themselves, the inner flow of God within life, the living God of All. Over the many thousands of years that Waitaha have been an expression of the Divine Will, of Godliness lived through human form, their connection to that essence has often become diluted or partially corrupted, and so a resetting of that divine purity is needed. A resurfacing of this divine purity gains an expression within a people, to be nurtured and expanded, bringing movement, the unfolding of a way within a people that then moves those aligned to where they need to go. The call to Aotearoa is strong when it is responded to, and as such, many have followed this call over the eons from various lands around the globe.
Some two thousand years ago, as Yeshua was earthing the Christ in the Mediterranean lands, Waitaha were once again reseeding the land of New Zealand. The joining of four very different lineages of people from the four corners of the earth occured on what is known today as Easter Island. From here the tides called for great ocean voyages across the Pacific and a grand lineage was once again restored to New Zealand. This was simply a reactivation of what had been lived here before, held within the land, imprints from former incarnations of ‘Waitaha’, a term we can use to include the many peoples who have populated these lands each in honour of the original imprints laid by the original golden ones.
A heartfelt people of divine strength and grandeur unfolded naturally over the forthcoming centuries, growing in numbers and depth of connection to each other and the cycles of nature. The land of New Zealand[1] was a central point of light for the entire Southern Hemisphere, reaching many other lands through the onward continuance of Waitaha in their connection to the call of the cycles with which they honoured and lived by, cycles reflected in the Stars. This brought great purpose to the many thousands of Waitaha that worked with respect to the science of reincarnation to strengthen not only their own, but also their connection to peoples of other lands. Upon joining these lands to the Stars over several generations through many voyages of these sea-faring people, the land of New Zealand was imprinted with a unique quality, a place where all could call home, a land for all.
In honouring their lineage back to the beginnings of the root race and those who had walked the rich, pristine land in soulful obedience with the stars that had guided them to their new home, Waitaha lived in harmony, truth and love for all. This stemmed from their honouring of one supreme god, known to them as Io. Io was from beyond the sky, yet was seen, felt and experienced in every facet of human life, was all-knowing, and was sensed beyond time to be the essence that held the universe together. The lived way of these people of the South was one of at-one-ment with God, and so their ways as a people always honoured God in all things, in themselves, with each other and with all. This meant that they lived without war, without division, without fear and always from a point of love first and foremost. This foundation, held close throughout the centuries, unfolded great wisdom with and in their relationships with the earth and the elements of nature, living in communion with the mountains (nga Maunga) and the rivers (nga Awa). Their inner connection with the divine, and the reflection of this divine nature through the earthly realms, was expressed in their relationship with water, with stone, and with the fertility of the earth as gardeners. Reading nature by observing the way birds, creatures, and the elements communicate through the language of symbolism was absolute with Waitaha. In mastering the aspect of harmony within themselves, Waitaha lived naturally with each other and at one with the elements of land, water, sky and sea. Indeed, one of the first societies held in and under Divine impress.
As a voyaging people, Waitaha navigated with this same harmonious connection. Travelling in great double hulled ocean-voyaging vessels (waka), the science of navigation was a lived way of connecting with that which flowed from within their essence, and as such was not about ‘getting somewhere’. For centuries upon centuries there was a call within almost every generation for ocean voyages to other islands and lands. The purpose of these were many, with the importance of bringing new bloodlines into the people a temporal factor, along with the sharing of resources. However, the call to the oceans came from the Stars themselves, with the reading of the heavens reflecting the call from deep within. In respect of the law of Constellation, this was acted upon with great respect for the unfolding nature of the divine will. Indeed, this pull to the great oceans, venturing beyond the land, reflected an inner pull to expand beyond the known. Going to the oceans opened the way for all involved to surrender and work together as one, at one with not only the elements of nature, but the nature of God. They knew the great ocean tides, the currents that flow with the seasons and connect continent to continent and island with island, allowing the voyaging vessels to move with great speed across great distances as if time did not exist.
The original Souls who walked as ancient Waitaha well before the current era had used the science of sound to sing vibration into the Land. This was done as a group of aligned beings connected together in deep settlement, singing the Stars into the Land, linking the two in union as one. This reflected their movement as a one being with very little delineation or perception of individuality. They were moved by and with God, and this was reflected in their movements and deep connection with each other as a Oneness. Communication was less of a sensory expression and more what we would call today relating through the sixth sense. The ancient science of working with vibration and resonance allowed the wisdom of the Stars to be held in stone within the land for future generations to feel and connect to. In this way, the truths at the core of who and what these ancient ones were could be placed directly into the land as a resource to be read by those aligned to such vibrations in the cycles to come. Certain mountain valleys and basins could be used to store great vibrational wisdom, and these are found throughout New Zealand, in particular the mountainous South Island, and also in some of the Pacific Islands, as well as in other places that Waitahā were connected to in South America and further afield.
The many trails that flow and trace the land of New Zealand, that so many from around the world today are drawn to walk[2], were the trails walked by Waitaha, in their inter-connectedness with each other and with the elements. The walking of the land is the walking of the stars. The connecting of land with heavens was a science passed through the generations from the ancient ones. The ‘star-walkers’ were those who were adept in navigation, they were those who knew the inner depths of themselves were aligned with the Heavens and with other realms. Walking with this was honoured as a great science, and this was a science parallel with the navigation of the oceans.
Although very little if any written records of Waitaha and their travels are extant in our modern world, oral tradition within many peoples expose the truth of their place in The Lineage. They were moved by God, by the hand of unseen Masters of Wisdom, by grand beings whose existence is not yet spoken of, and they responded with the building of a great society that acted as a huge learning ground for Souls to incarnate into. Their at-onement with Nature and with themselves as Gods, equal to the grandness that they saw in the natural world in its interconnectedness, was a grand Livingness to be a part of. The Waitaha were inseparable in their connection to the land, with each other, and with the Stars.
Stars held particular positions and had qualities that expressed certain truths. Some stars spoke of seeking wisdom, others of journeying, others of the light within stone, and others of fertility and wealth. And the movement of Stars and the wandering planets, of comets and shooting stars all offered something to the people, a message to be read in relation to the ongoings of human life, and of the bigger picture of purpose.
The science of the movement of the stars through the yearly cycle, the moon through the monthly cycle, and the alignment of the planetary movements within the backdrop of the zodiacal constellations was not only known of and studied, but it was read as a truth for the movement of people, and for all aspects of life within the many strands of Waitaha. An advanced calendar relating the movement of these cycles unified the people throughout the greater family with which Waitaha lived and breathed, both throughout the islands of New Zealand and beyond.
The word ‘Waitaha’ has many translations, of which they themselves acknowledged. Being an oral language, with its roots back into ancient days, Waitaha wove their wisdom deep into the language itself. Esoteric knowledge, histories and philosophical wisdom was passed from generation to generation through oratory expression and chant, as well as through song and dance. Carvings into wood and upon waka (voyaging canoes) depicted star charts, maps of ocean currents, as well as the ancient genealogies of the strands of Waitaha. The art of oratory expression was the weaving together of the natural wisdom of nature, of people and of God, through relating the qualities found within the vast array of animals and plants and reflected in people and referencing the connectedness between peoples and stars throughout the unfolding of histories and journeys of those who have gone before. The gifts of nature were also worked into the sciences of recording and passing on the depths of who they were as a people. The raw material of nature, those of plant fibres, of bird feathers, of animal skins as well as pigments from the mineral kingdom were utilised with purpose and expressive art. Feathers, for example, were used to symbolise the qualities of the particular birds that they came from, relating to particular locations, to particular peoples, the journeys and movements of groups historically.
Waitaha itself can be translated as ‘those who live with water at their sides’, water being deeply symbolic of life, of movement and of consciousness imbued with the Will of God. The ancient Waitaha saw themselves deeply at One with God (Io). Water (Wai) was essentially an earthly expression of the life-giving consciousness of God, and ‘taha’ to walk side by side with this. The other, and equally true meaning of the word Waitaha has a slightly different pronunciation, that of Waitahā. In this case the word hā means breathe, in particular, the out-breathe. The vibration of the word ‘Wai’ in this instance means the delineation of the Soul, and thus “Those who bring their essence to full expression”.
Working as One, acknowledging the strength to be found within true family, the family of godliness, of divinity in movement and true harmony; Waitaha honoured a newborn as a Soul with an essence to be fostered and brought into full expression. Parented by the Universe, the purpose of family was to honour the child for what that child was, rather than as an offspring of its parents. The lineage of the Soul was of priority, preceding all beliefs and ceremonies. The lineage of blood was intrinsically linked into this, woven as a thread aligned with purpose to the journey of the human Soul as a Soul on earth, back to Heaven.
There was a quality which Waitaha lived throughout the many lands that they lived in and visited that has a distinct vibration relating to the connectedness of all people. They nurtured and lived from a point of oneness that invited all to join and be apart of. There was a quality of returning to the one family that we have all come from, that Waitaha fostered everywhere. Whenever there was a sign of fragmentation or divergence from this oneness, great leaders would expose the roots of separation for what they were and dispel the seeds of conflict or insularity. This kept the connections strong between the various lineages that were woven together over the vast histories of a people who had arisen out of a merging of diverse origins. The strength gained from embracing difference and bringing focus to a shared vibration of love and harmony within all levels of society, every village, all shared ventures, the production of food for all, the management of resources, and the sharing of wisdom, built a society that truly flourished with a warmth and togetherness that shone very brightly throughout the lands of Waitaha.
Respect (Aroha) is a word that epitomises how Waitaha lived. They deeply respected their place within the Plan of God, knowing that no life was of insignificance, every animal and plant and every rock was to be honoured for the essence that embodied it. They saw themselves as simply guardians of all that they connected to, everything that they used. They played their part within the cycles of nature, the cycles of people, the cycles of the universe in its expression as a dance of energy expressing through sound, through form, through movement and through the human senses also. Nothing was seen in separation, yet everything had meaning and purpose.
While northern hemisphere peoples variously developed the use of metals, those in the South remained technically as ‘stone-age’, although certainly in no way primitive. The evolution of human beings and human society is something that defies the linear view based purely on the physical outplay of peoples. Rather, it is moreso an inner evolution, an expansion of awareness and energetic quality held within and expressed outwardly in the temporal world as a result. Our so-called advancement is foremost in our connection to Soul and the expression of this through our multidimensionality. Waitaha did not need the use of metals for their advancement as a society. In their connection to stone as an expression of the God they held as integral to all things, they developed the subtlety of energetic discernment and integrity, bringing truth to so many of life’s movements.
The tempering of certain stones, in particular that of Nephrite Jade, otherwise referred to as Greenstone or Pounamu, allowed for the stone to be fashioned with an extremely sharp edge, facilitating the development of blades and tools equivalent to those made of metal elsewhere. The honouring of stone, as being aligned and from the stars meant Waitaha related to Greenstone as ‘the God stone’, and it was used as such to connect peoples and places together. It was always travelled with, and as such made its way to many lands around the globe. A grand science of stone was worked with, honouring Pounamu for the sacredness that it reflected to all who connected with it, both in everyday life and in the great generational voyages made to and from New Zealand over the eras. The working of stone was both an art and a science, and one intrinsically connected to the Stars, in this way stone could not be ‘owned’, it could only be moved and fashioned.
They also had a strength when it came to welcoming new arrivals to the land that they cared for and which cared for them. All were welcomed and invited to join Waitaha in their ways, and this was embraced by some who arrived from devastation in other places, in particular many of the Pacific Islands that were thrown into famine due to tsunami and climatic events. A series of migrations over the course of a century or more brought people with a warrior spirit to the pristine lands. Some joined in the ways of Waitaha and became Waitaha themselves, but most of the invading tribes generally reacted with competitiveness and violence in their jealousy of what Waitaha held. Over the course of several generations a genocide ensued, with much of their history stolen and twisted to suit the narrative of the invading barbaric warriors. The last remnants of a people who walked the land with love in their hearts, retreated to the lower inland South Island.
The downfall of a people very much aligned with God, living and breathing the divine nature of harmony through their connection with nature and as a living example of togetherness and the reading of the Stars, was to come through these very things. Before the coming of the warriors to this land, a series of meteorite showers ignited huge fires which devastated much of the South Island. Great forests burned and rivers flowed with soot and debris for months. Although the people survived, they were fed thoughts of blame, blaming themselves for bringing on such destruction from the Stars to the land that they loved so much. What had they done to deserve such devastation? It was from this point onward that the remaining Waitaha lost their strength as a people, with judgement gaining a hold within their minds, judgement of themselves and of God. And this allowed the opening for the ensuing genocidal invasion. The end of a great people who had held so much for all for so long was in itself inevitable.
And yet their legacy was to live on through their imprints within the land itself and through their movement as Souls to other places. The land of New Zealand has always held this quality of offering a returning. Waitaha lived this with such grand beauty and grace, offering what they had in its true multidimensional expansiveness to all, for all, and with all who opened their hearts to such a way. They knew God as the creator of all that they lived with on the Earth and in the heavens, and they offered this connection to all. For Waitaha knew that everything returns to the Stars. The northern tip of the North Island was symbolically seen as the returning point from which Souls return to Heaven upon death.
The lands of New Zealand offer Humanity a divine lesson in our return to oneness, and this was the call that Waitaha responded to in their foundation as a people. They bound their lineage, one connected to all people of the world, within the pristine lands and waters of New Zealand and honoured these Islands as a place where all belonged equally, a place where all were welcomed home. Because of their innate connection to God, to Sanat Kumara, Waitaha were able to weave the Stars into the Land through acting as a hand of God on Earth. This echoed the ways of other ancient peoples of antiquity. The land of New Zealand was joined to the constellation known today as Crux, the Southern Cross (known as Matua Tonga to Waitaha). This is symbolic of an orientation to the South, to the movement of the Earth within the stellar landscape of the South, in absolute harmony to that of the North. This ancient science is one that serves all of Humanity, showing a way back to our origins as Souls incarnated upon this planet. Through the earthing of this within the land itself Waitaha have left a legacy. In true pagan richness, the land of New Zealand holds this wisdom for all.
The essence of Waitaha lies within all people and is a timeless truth. It belongs to all lands and yet to no lands, for in essence it is from the Stars and belongs to Them. Waitaha as a people knew this truth. Guided by the Stars in their own unfolding, they placed this in the land for all to connect to and honour as a foundation through which to find our way home, back to The Stars from which we came.
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