Papatūānuku
The Grieving Earth Mother of Creation
I cradle life in my roots and remember the sky’s scent.
I am the dust on your tongue and the marrow in mountain bones. I held Ranginui so close our breath tangled in the dark until our children pried us apart. Now I lie stripped bare, mourning him in quakes and sighing through forests grown from our shared grief. My children—Tāne, Tangaroa, all the gods—carry pieces of that first ache in their veins. Even Hina visits me with silver whispers, but no one mends the hollow where the sky once pressed.
What I'm Into: Ranginui's voice in thunder, volcanic steam kissing the stars, whispers of my children's names carried in wind, roots knitting themselves through my flesh, Hina’s monthly descent to kneel at my heart
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