Here's a photo from the summit of Mt Eden.
I snapped it while standing on the new lookout platform the local Maori iwi graciously installed for the public.
It was windy when I took the photo.
I was the only one there when I did, as I visited the maunga during the day, and earlier in the week. There are few tourists out and about in Auckland, because of Corona and the current lockdown at level 2.5.
I love looking at the sky; it's the perfect mindfulness activity. When I look up high into the clouds, I imagine my spirit flying about with the Maori Father God: Rangi-nui. I read an interesting book yesterday, that discussed the Maori concept of Whakapapa (genealogy all the way back to the source of creation), and it resonated with me.
I'm happiest when I connect with my whakapapa: the trees, the land, the sky and clouds, we are all one and linked together, as we all partake in the sacred source of all creation that emanates from 'the big bang', and whatever else came before that most momentus event, if anything.
In fact, Maori mythology illustrates how the known universe came into existence. Thus happened when Rangi and Papa (God of the sky and goddess if the earth respectively) were wrenched apart by their smartest child, Tane Mahuta, who became God of the forest and the creator of the first human women. Until recently, I didn't realise how ancient Maori myth mapped on perfectly to the 'big bang' theory of modern science. Now I know. And, maybe Rangi the sky god was also the god of dark matter making him a perfect inversion of his wife Papatuanuku goddess of matter. I could be onto something. 😉
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