Hier de Haka, fitness voor 's morgen??? (zie de bijhorende prentjes)Leader
KA MATE! KA MATE!
We're going to die! We're going to die!
We were at war
Chorus
KA ORA, KA ORA!
We're going to live! We're going to live!
But now there is peace.
Leader
KA MATE! KA MATE!
We're going to die! We're going to die!
We thought we were all going to die
Chorus
KA ORA, KA ORA!
We're going to live! We're going to live!
but now we are safe
All together
TENEI TE TANGATA PU'RU-HURU
This is the man, so hairy
because our leader, so strong and masculine,
NA'A NEI TIKI MAI WHAKA-WHITI TE ...
who fetched, and made shine the
has unified us and brought back the sunny days of
... RA! UPANE! KA UPANE!
sun! Together! All together ... !
peace. We are all working in harmony, side by side,
A UPANE! KA UPANE!
Together! All together ... !
moving in unison like the hairs on our chief's legs
WHITI TE RA!
To sun shines!
to prolong these sunny days of peace.
HI !
Yeah!
The ancient Ka Mate haka
The All Black haka is an ancient haka, says Patricia Burns (1983). It was modified in about 1810 by the warrior chief Te Rauparaha of the Ngati Toa tribe when he added to the end of a longer haka.
Margaret Orbell (1967) pointed out that in the ancient usage of the Ka mate haka "te tangata puhuruhuru" (the hairy person) symbolised unified strength. And that "Whiti te ra" (the shining sun) symbolised light, life, peace.
She noted that the original version of the haka had "Upane, ka upane" (together, all together). When men are united, all together, they became the Hairy One, powerful enough to bring about the triumph of life over death, that is, to transform war into peace. Consequently this haka was performed to affirm the making of the peace process between tribes. "Ka mate, ka ora" conveys the feelings of the reunited groups: "We thought we were all going to die, but now we are safe."
E H Schnackenburg of Kawhaia (1948) says that this haka formerly celebrated the triumph of Maui in capturing the sun, an allegorical story telling of how the sunny days (times of peace) were too short and the nights (periods of war) were too long. So as the sun came up one morning, Maui lassoed it and slowed it down to make longer days, the message being that a strong, brave, ingenious leader is needed to ensure peaceful times.
Similarly, the purpose of rugby football tours, in their pre-commercial days, was to affirm the bonds of peace and unity between isolated regions and countries.
Te Raupauraha's parody of the old haka
The meaning of this old haka was completely inverted by the Ngati Toa warlord Te Rauparaha after he escaped retribution for slaughtering and eating a group of innocent travellers.
Te Rauparaha is said to have been a boy when Captain James Cook was in New Zealand. Although not of the highest rank, he rose to the leadership of Ngati Toa because of his aggressiveness and his skill in battle.At a feast given by a friendly Waikato tribe, his young wife Marore was accidently served up a meal without any chiefly garnishes. So Te Rauparaha organised a war party and killed about 150 people of another Waikato village to get human flesh to feed to his wife.
Not surprisingly this got a violent reaction from other Waikato tribes. They besieged Te Rauparaha, and by 1822 he was forced to take his people away from Kawhia on a migration which was to eventually bring them to Kapiti Island.
One day Te Rauparaha and his gang had come up the Whanganui river and were crossing the volcanic plateau heading for Kawhia. They detoured to Lake Rotoaira to get some fish as food for the journey. On the way there, his group spotted a number of Ngati Te Hou travellers, and one of his party asked, "Why go to Rotoaira when food is here?" They followed this suggestion, and attacked, killed and ate some, but not all, of the Ngati Te Hou travellers.
The survivors carried the news back to their tribe, who mounted a war party to avenge this abomination. They were in hot pursuit when Te Rauparaha reached the village of a tribe friendly to him.
He hid in a pit for storing kumara (sweet potato) and waited in the dark for his pursuers to find him.
He heard sounds above and thought he was done for when the top of the pit was opened up and sunshine flooded in. He was blinded and struggled to see those about to slay him (I'm going to die!), when his sight cleared and he instead saw the hairy legs of the local chief who had hid him (I'm going to live!). Te Rauparaha climbed a ladder up out of the pit and later performed his parody of the old haka, changing the old phrase "Upane, ka upane" (together, all together) to "Hupane, kaupane" (up the ladder).
There have been NZ rugby hakas since 1884. The Maori players performed hakas on the field and to attract crowds and make their tours profitable.* 1884 - A New Zealand team in New South Wales used a Maori war cry to introduce itself to its opponents before each of its matches.
A Sydney newspaper reported: "The sound given in good time and union by 18 pairs of powerful lungs was sometimes tremendous. 
The NSW men declared it was hardly fair of the visitors to frighten them out of their wits before the game began."
