"Devoid of a past, I had always felt insubstantial, a ghost of a person, suspended in a liminal space between identities" Barbara Sumner, Tree of Strangers page 28. Listen Here:
play.acast.com/s/two-lucky-bds/0c23045a-7af2-4e55-843a-d87e6746b843 Episode three of Two Lucky B*#%*@ds was released on November 14th, 2020 (run time 50.18). In this episode Sande and Lance consider some of the themes that emerged for them from chapter three of Barbara Sumner's wonderful book Tree of Strangers; identity, bloodlines, brokenness and the 'spirit of harlotry'. Sande refers to the Māori concept of whakapapa. Māori were the first settlers who discovered Aotearoa/New Zealand. Whakapapa is an important component of Māori culture and being. Whakapapa is the Māori expression of genealogy. Unlike European notions of genealogy, the Māori concept of whakapapa is richer and broader. It is a line of descent from ancestors down to the present day, however whakapapa is not limited to human connections, rather it links people to all other living things, and to the earth and the sky, and it traces the universe back to its origins. A fuller exploration of this can be found here: teara.govt.nz/en/whakapapa-genealogy Sande also mentioned the wonderful programme Mahi a Atua (www.mahiaatua.com) which is looking at creative ways of helping people connect with their culture, heritage and history. Lance talked about the place of women in the genealogy of Jesus (as mentioned in the Bible), which he got horribly wrong. He suggested that there were two women mentioned, when in reality there were five. Here is an interesting article about these fascinating individuals: www.odt.co.nz/opinion/faith-and-reason-scandalous-women-christs-family-tree
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