Tirohanga Ao Pono - True Worldview

[Excerpt from pp.3 (of 149-pages) PAO (sings): “Tihē mauriora ki te whaiao, ki Te Ao Mārama…”-- SUPER: “From the breathed energy of life to the dawn-light, to the world of light” _ ”. KIIPĀ:--Ae. Yes. That was what my tohunga-mātua used to chant. That, indeed, is my theme for this painting – “To manifest the life-principle, it must be drawn out of the darkness of conflict into the world of peace and light.”