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8e brave! Be brave! re, Heke. built a fort named Te Kahika, 'The Ancestor' The system of alliances and enmities developed during Hongi's time, many of which go back for generations before that, became in turn a tracc structure (as it might be called) in Heke's revolt (cf. toon; Wright 1959; Maning 19o6) This structure was inherited with all its faults, or geographical divisions cum oppositions within Ngapuhi, since it is clear that the Ngapuhi "tribe" was put together in large measure by Hongi (cf Binney 1968:58n; Carleton t874, r:65-68, z:4t-43) Dialectically and selectively, the.
Wt' need a notion of "hierarchical solidarity" to go alongside l)rrrkheim's mechanical and organic tyPes. In the heroic socieIrcs, the coherence of the members or subgroups is not so much rlrrt'to their similarity (mechanical solidarity) or to their complerrrr,nlirrity (organic solidarity) as to their common submission to llrr, ruling po'wer. vt'rything points to the necessity of a line of powerful chiefs as a ntrlt'us about which tlre lineage groups itself. ). ,rlit' order has been completely eroded.
Williams 1975:44d. 33 mankind to inherit the Earth. Such separation of Heaven (Rangi) and Earth (Papa) or darkness (po) and light (ao) is, as Johansen says, "the proper substance of creation, what makes the world fit to livc in for a Maori" (r958:85). The fence or corner uprights of thc tilahu are the foko, term used in the Tane myth to designatc the poles propping up the Sky-Father, and meaning as a verb'to support', 'to push to a distance', and'to divorce'. Toko rrThe separating life (before) and death (behind)-may also bc known as a tidhu, being the site of famous rituals yCf.
