Māori Woman Explains Traditional Face Tattoo 😮 | UNILAD Adventure

"Every single woman's journey with moko kauae is different." Lynia shares experience of getting her traditional face tattoo. She also explains some things you might not know about Māori culture.
Huge thanks to Lynia for talking to us. You can see more from her here:
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[@autumnhomer9786]

🎀Thank you for sharing a part of your culture.🎀

[@Drummasterjay]

This is such a beautiful thing. Shoutout to all my native and indigenous peoples rejecting colonization and getting back to their ancestral roots!

[@leigh4326]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@darrellm9915]

They're not your people.

[@moegreene3630]

What? They were 100% colonized, though. The fuck are you talking about?

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Yes shoutout to all your native and indigenous peoples rejecting colonization. "Hey cuzzi. Shal we go for a feed at McDonald´s?"

[@kwolf2145]

Do Maori's acknowledge that they are a sub group of the mongoloid race?

[@SuperCoolbreeze4]

I also thank you for sharing your story. Keep doing you!

[@carolzerucha7429]

Thank you, Lydia, for sharing some of your culture with us! What people who are colonized don’t get (yes, Caucasians were colonized too, but centuries ago, so they think their colonized beliefs are their indigenous mysteries and they’re wrong) is that indigenous spirituality has many mysteries that can only be experienced. Sharing all of it has no advantage for the listener (if they are even listening at all) and even less advantage for the teller. Lydia shared what she could to at least let us all know that the Maori are here and exist and have their own unique culture so that everyone can be educated and be sensitive and empathetic to her people. She did not share their spiritual mysteries, which are not to be shared with outsiders, and I would never expect her to. All my love to Lynia!

[@greek42069]

Can any Maori person get the face tattoo , or do they need to be a leader of some sorts? I've heard ppl say only Maori with a special rank or social status can get one if so what is the special rank or social status required? They are very beautiful and I love the idea of ppl getting in touch with their ancient cultures , u are right that so much colonization and mixing has gone on its easy to forget our humble ancient origins.

[@ko2_badman811]

We dont need a rank or social status to get one. We just need to understand what we are representing when we receive our Mataora or Moko kauae.

[@fallenangel_899]

@@greek42069That was the original reason for getting one. However anyone with Maaori whakapapa can get one. It’s best to know your roots first to explain to the artist. Your roots, your family and who you are as an individual will matter on how to yours will turn out. They are always unique to you.

[@katec2922]

I love the have found a balance of sharing your culture so those of us not familiar can learn but also said it won’t all go on the internet as some is kept sacred. That’s a beautiful way of keeping traditional and also being in the present time without letting what the present times are take over completely. You are stunning and seem like a wonderful woman x

[@t.thompson8985]

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing, I learned so much.

[@magafica]

I love you all out there , MAORI people.... what a beautiful culture

[@rileywolf5432]

Absolutely, amazingly beautiful!

[@reemclaughlin4260]

Beautiful!

[@edanechickpoultryfarm8181]

You and all your maori sisters are strong and beautiful women!!!! The aka by your people can weaken most enemies... I'm an African and I appreciate people like you.

[@maccinewells4271]

Beautiful said

[@brendadooley3838]

Thanks for the schooling. I enjoyed your video. You're a beautiful lady.

[@LisaLGruman]

Thank you for telling us about yourself and your beautiful culture.

[@Langkowski]

What culture? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't learn anything about maori culture.

[@woodyscorner8536]

@@Langkowski the whole video is about their cultural tattoos

[@Langkowski]

@@woodyscorner8536 So what did you learn?

[@woodyscorner8536]

@@Langkowski what are you, my maths teacher?? I learned how important spiritualism and the tattoos are to them which I didn’t know before

[@Langkowski]

@@woodyscorner8536 ​So you saw a video where someone talks about how important spiritualism and their tattoos are for them, and you feel you learned something about the actual culture? Also, math teachers don't ask you what you have learned about other cultures.

[@msoda8516]

Beautiful

[@Sybilisation2010]

You look, you are beautiful. Out of this world. Immortal.

[@arthurarustamian2287]

Jadore !!

[@nicholelayne4092]

Love it

[@Sarah-kl9nz]

Wauw beautiful

[@elainewoodard8486]

I have mad respect for you appreciating God and also your fathers culture which is yours as well and your husbands God bless you. Not all christains think out side the church is evil. Me n my family believe we are all made the way we are from God. So dont be discourage from the ones who dont understand God bless you and yours

[@wakaroawaata1586]

Arohanui, beautiful indeed.

[@helenshort]

I am a 58 year old white lady,skipping along thinking I'm all English blood oh no no no I wasn't the little white English girl the Maoris were protecting from abuse,they saw me as Waka so I just found out,the Maoris used to call me the little white Maori girl and cats eyes ,I always wondered why I navigated towards tribal people ,I have been living in Australia for 41 years now.

[@rainolipponen]

Beautiful Maiden 💓 Kulttuuri on Hieno asia 👍

[@user-px1rw3vt2v]

I'm Maori, also originally Maori, I live in Yemen

[@adriennetrouskie5811]

♡

[@andrewryan7583]

Beautiful women

[@dontcare9689]

Well, if you want it all I can say is. To each is own. I'm Italian but we eat more than just Italian food daily.

[@dh2032]

what would you eat, that you world consider not Italian food more of a daily thing?

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

As a non indigenous person, and a privileged white cis hetero person at that, you were never colonized, you never had your lands taken, and culture almost destroyed. THis is about revival, and decolonization. Of course you wouldn't understand!

[@justaregularhumanbeing6871]

I'm very curious about the gestures (dance?) and facial expressions Lynia makes throughout the video. Can someone explain the context behind them?

[@torichan9872]

It's called Pukana. It's to intimidate and show strength to the enemy. Also widening the eyes for women was seen as attractive to tribal men as well lol

[@reeciebehere]

@@torichan9872Not really. It’s a lot more complex than to simply intimidate. It’s also not about being attractive or appealing.

[@reeciebehere]

The gestures mean many different things and pukana is widely used in kapahaka, Māori traditional performance by iwi/tribe/nation, to emphasise an aspect of the performance. To me, it’s something a little less formal and close to home, as in I’d get a bit of the whites of the eyes, pukana look from my nan or aunties for being cheeky. I hope that makes sense There’s a bunch of good vlogs/blogs about pukana and Māori on KZbin etc…

[@neilpeters275]

solid we are classed as our own race MAORI

[@moanabell3550]

One thing I would say as a Māori who loves the gospel of Jesus - just remember the hands that delivered the word of God were colonised hands… but that doesn’t make the Word itself colonised. Please don’t close your hearts to the beauty of Jesus because the people who delivered it were hypocrites who actually are the very type of people Jesus speaks of as ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ and ‘a brood of vipers’. Gods best Blessings to all reading this ❤

[@williambaker9506]

That's just proof that your beloved Jesus isn't real. find something else to fulfill your life.

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Sorry but you are wrong there. Jesus did exist. I think you ment to say God isn´t real. I myself have no time for religion. To quote Bertrand Russel "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." Maori mythology is no different. Take for example the myth of the slowing down of the sun. In the days of old Tamanuiterā, the sun, used to move through the sky at much too fast a pace for humanity to complete all their days' chores leaving long, cold nights that lasted for many hours while Tamanuiterā slept. Māui and his brothers journeyed to Tamanuiterā's sleeping pit with a large rope, which in some tellings was made from their sister Hina's hair. The brothers fashioned the rope into a noose or net, and in doing so "discovered the mode of plaiting flax into stout square-shaped ropes, (tuamaka); and the manner of plaiting flat ropes, (paharahara); and of spinning round ropes", which when Tamanuiterā awoke found himself caught in. Using a patu made from the jawbone of their grandmother, Murirangawhenua, Māui beat the sun into agreeing to slow down and give the world more time during the day. So you see if that had that not happened McDonald´s would only be serving breakfast. @@williambaker9506

[@me-pz5yi]

Amen. Well said.

[@DustinSmith796]

Amen

[@christinekennett8170]

The Innuit of Northwest Alaska have this similarly. Eskimo is slang and racist. They are called Innuits.😅😅

[@christinekennett8170]

didn’t mean to post the faces

[@rebeccahuru5536]

Can ask God to Bless your design.

[@raybreeze2841]

Is it right Maori can get facial tattoos or barcoding on there face

[@giovannisheh2270]

Why is it barcoding to you? Your barcode is your birth certificate and you're govt property

[@kenhew4641]

Moko or the facial tattoos belong to the Maoris so yes they can and it's their right but not others. If you're not a Maori then no you can't

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

You also have a birth certificate ..........and therefore according to you, you are yourself govt property. I think you just shot yourself in the foot. @@giovannisheh2270

[@rosyc9250]

​@@kenhew4641Actually anyone can. Just go to the tattoo parlor.

[@iseeyou4405]

It's really important to note that if you are praying to God, just pray to God. Praying to ancestors or people who have passed is called necromancy. Like catholics who pray to Mary. This practice is strongly warned against in God's Word as it can invite spiritual entities that you don't want in your life. God bless 👍

[@shanti3778]

I feel like ppl who know what they are doing can partake in such since they are more enlightened,experienced and highly spiritually discerning.

[@iseeyou4405]

@@shanti3778 do not pray to or communicate with the dead. It doesn't matter how enlightened or experienced or how spiritually discerning you think you are. Avoid this practice at any cost. Your future generations will benefit.

[@user-zh1su5mg5h]

Имитация бороды?

[@masktony1509]

What if the break up happens then you start to dislike the tattoo because it would only remind u of your ex

[@DustinSmith796]

The Moko is about her though, not him. I got my first tattoo inspired from my ex, but even after our breakup do I wear it proudly because it’s me and God, not me and my ex.

[@hugejohnson5011]

Hey thanks for drawing stuff on your face, so that I had something to look at on KZbin!

[@nicholelayne4092]

Those without culture have no foundation to anything

[@DeRocco21]

when you have 1% of some genetic make up

[@dain3rgymusic547]

Tattoos always been in cultures such as Africans. Indians, and etc My thing is who said it a was a sin to have tats when they was doing this for centuries before the Bible was written?? Something to think about

[@RiqiHarawira]

Ataahua tou pūrakau, mean siss, hoki mai ki to tātou tanga

[@ashchristie1756]

Whenever I hear the word manifest I loose braincells

[@IcchiNutz]

Too dumb to understand clearly

[@LJExpedition]

Not a fan personally

[@lindseyaliceford]

You missed the entire point of the video along without having any respect for other cultures.

[@lindseyaliceford]

And….. you missed the entire point of this educational video along without having any respect for other cultures. Your response is ignorant.

[@LJExpedition]

@@lindseyaliceford Hey Lindsey, who asked for your opinion? Classic female American making assumptions again. Maybe, I did watch the video and understand it from a culture perspective but from MY OPINION, I’m not a fan. That’s MY PREFERENCE. Imagine trying to be a voice for black people with a surname: Ford. Where do you think your ancestors got that name from? It’s a slave name, ain’t that ironic. Think you better worry about that before you worry about other peoples comments online. Have a good day and carry the hell on.

[@butterbagboy]

Traditions are just dead peoples baggage, don’t mess yourself up Ike this

[@rubenhayk5514]

Maori men do war face and Maori women do a divorce face.

[@giovannisheh2270]

And everyone else smells like patero bum

[@kenhew4641]

nah it's more like, "you're sleeping on the couch tonight" face😄

[@duncanwiremu8360]

no thats not true sister, that not god thats religion. Religion is not god sister. Jesus christ is god. If people read his word they will see the truth of life, all the confusion that has been spread about god.

[@maapauu4282]

Jesus is the Christian God (kinda), but many people don't see him as their God because they aren't christian

[@4traydouble-o211]

Jesus is Not God but of God, Jesus even speaks multiple times to the people and his disciples, Stop, stand now and do NOT worship or praise me brother give all your Glory to God in heaven. When Jesus spoke in parables yes but he also spoke plainly... He also said no man can go to God unless through me Jesus, why, because God sent him God blessed jesus like no man on earth, Jesus had the gifts and knowledge and wisdom man didn't, man was already sinning so God sent Jesus to tell Gods people the TRUTH so that they may hear and have faith and believe. Jesus did not come here to create religions... We couldn't go through another man to God because no man had wisdom only Jesus did, because Jesus was filled with the holy spirit with wisdom.... religion even Christianity religious ways have so confused this..... Seek God for understanding

[@ilanar8832]

Jesus is God came to earth to make us know truth and be saved from our sins.Jesus is for everyone no matter the race ,nationality or color

[@CalvinisBaptistContinuationist]

It’s a shame that this girl let her mom down and rebelled against the one true path of Jesus The Way The Truth and The Life being cool and edgy while shaming the one True Lord of the Universe isn’t brave it’s saddening. Giving up the beauty of Jesus in your life God himself in your life for a demonic dance a face tattoo and just a man. Jesus is the door and it’s not shut knock and see if he will answer in prayer

[@dickyo6952]

no no this is bullshit and just made it up too look special

[@DustinSmith796]

Tell that to the generations of warriors who died for this freedom

[@dickyo6952]

@@DustinSmith796 tell that to you woke bullshit friends

[@DustinSmith796]

@@dickyo6952may God judge you righteously, Aho 🪶🪶🪶

[@st4r444]

Sjw woke culture romanticized culture

[@kemicecormier5687]

Beautiful!