Composer
Paraone Gloyne

Paraone Gloyne (Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a prominent composer, orator and performing artist. Paraone, a graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori, has long been dedicated to the revitalisation of te reo Māori and tikanga Māori. He has been involved in various initiatives at a tribal and national level. He is well-known for pioneering Mahuru Māori in 2014 to promote the speaking of te reo Māori in our daily lives. His efforts in this area saw him take home the Te Waitī Award for Te Reo and Tikanga at the annual Matariki Awards ceremony in 2018.
Songs by this composer
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Ara rē, ara rē
There! The dart is thrown about repeatedly
Wharepūhunga is enveloped in mist
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The dart can be seen gliding in the distance
Towards the peak of... -
Mōteateatia te uri o Tūhoe Pōtiki
I stand at Te Aratītaha
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And look towards Te Urewera
My old war veterans
My extraordinary brave warriors
5 You, who died on the battlefield... -
Waitete, te kurī a Tūrongo
Kauhehei is above
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Kahotea is below
There resides the high born paramount chieftainess
Who abated an aching heart, the result of Te Whare o...
Ara rē, ara rē
Lyrics
There! The dart is thrown about repeatedly
Wharepūhunga is enveloped in mist
The dart can be seen gliding in the distance
Towards the peak of the mountain
5 There! The dart is thrown about repeatedly
At Pureora, Rangitoto and Titiraupenga
Tarapīkau is seen indistinctly moving about
I whistle and I hear his whistle in return
He whistles through a bent finger
10 And is deceptive, indeed
The fairy folk are a strange race
They’re cunning, crafty and full of tricks
Te Atakohu resides in the western hills
She dwells on the land, while Tamakaiuru dwells in the sky
15 She will cast your dart
There! The dart is thrown about repeatedly
Whanawhana-i-te-rangi resides at Puawhe
Fly forth to Te Aroha to visit Te Ruaiti
And from there to Taputeuru
20 His home is at Pukemoremore
The fairy folk are a strange race
They’re cunning, crafty and full of tricks
Womenfolk, don’t show your delight
Te Rangipōuri is attempting to persuade you
25 Menfolk, hold fast
There, his glowing dart flickers in the distance
There! The dart is thrown about repeatedly
Explanation
According to my female elders, a favourite past time of the patupaiarehe is to throw darts amongst each other as they travel to and fro between the mountains. It was a competition, they would cast their darts to see whose would fly the fastest. It’s their sport. Each mountain had one patupaiarehe who was the chief of all the fairy folk of a certain mountain, ridge top or forest. This poi was composed so that the stories about the patupaiarehe live amongst this generation. In traveling to each mountain and the different regions we acknowledge the Māori tribes of those mountains.
1. Ara rē
I would here my female elders saying ‘ara rē’, which means ‘look’, or ‘over there’, next to the listener or further away.
2. Pūkohukohu te tuhu ki Wharepūhunga
Wharepūhunga is a Ngāti Raukawa mountain and is inhabited by the patupaiarehe.
3. tiu
A pere or tiu is a dart.
4. Ki te maunga e tautari mai rā
It was Rakataura who said, ‘Ko whea tērā maunga e tautari mai rā?’ He was referring to Maungatautari.
7. Tarapīkau
Tarapīkau inhabits these mountain tops. His mana is likened to that of Tāne.
8. Whio atu, whiowhio, whio mai
When my elders would go pig hunting, they would whistle, if their whistles were returned they knew Tarapīkau was near and headed in a different direction.
9. Korowhiti, korowhiti, korowhīrona
Tarapīkau would whistle to confuse the people.
10. Tekateka
False, untrue.
11-12. Ko te iwi paiarehe, ko te iwi tupua. He māminga, ara rē nanakia, he nukanuka
A deceitful race.
13. E Te Atakohu
Te Atakohu is a female patupaiarehe, she inhabits the forests and mountains of the west, from Pirongia to Karioi, near Raglan.
14. Tamakaiuru
Tamakaiuru is an atua who is also known as Tūkaiteuru. He appears as a meteor and is a brother to Te Atakohu.
15. Tārearea
A tārerarea is another name for a dart.
17. Puawhe
Puawhe is the patupaiarehe name for Pirongia.
17. Whanawhana-i-te-rangi
Whanawhana-i-te-rangi is the chief patupaiarehe of Puawhe.
18. Topa atu ki Te Aroha ki Te Ruaiti
Te Ruaiti is the chief patupaiarehe of Te Aroha.
20. Pukemoremore
Taputeuru lives at Pukemoremore (Tauwhare).
24. Kei te whakawai mai rā a Te Rangipōuri
The patupaiarehe Te Rangipōuri was a womanizer. He composed the song, Kāore te rangi nei te pēhi whakarunga, a lament for his Māori wife.
26. Tērā tōna pere muramura e teretere mai rā
This was a special dart that belonged to Te Rangipōuri.