Te Tūahu Ō Kupe-Ariki 

Ngā Tohunga (Katekita) o Te Wananga O Tai Tokerau

Standing left to right

1. Wi Mutu Te Whiu

2. Matangi Te Wake

3. Here Pomare

 (Pa Teo Priest)

4. Moa Tahana

5. Ngakuru Pene Hare

Sitted left to right

6. Takou Kamira

7. Te Ngaropo Tawio (tōku tūpuna)

8. Wata Topia

9. Pakihi Peita

10. Hone Blair

Sitting on the ground

11. Toki Pangari 

12. Pio Morunga

13. Hone Neho

Genealogical Continuity & Living Practice 

Te Tikanga Nui Ō Te Mana Tuku Iho holds an unbroken IO genealogical line spanning approximately 750 generations, carried through living oral recital.

Beginning with IO, and concluding with Kupe Nuku IO-Ariki 9th, the recital comprises over 750 ancestral names, each representing a successive generation of approximately 25 years, preserving a genealogical sequence spanning approximately 18,700 years.

This genealogy was handed down through 750 generations from Marae Taputapuātea to Kupe Nuku, to Kupe Nuku IO-Ariki and preserved by the Tohunga scholar-practitioners of Te Wānanga Ō Taitokerau, Hokianga in the early eighteen century.

The surviving Hokianga manuscripts preserve this unbroken Kōpū Ariki lineage from IO to Te Kupenga O Te Ao and all 9 Kupe known in this tradition, providing a verifiable record of its eighteenth-century transmission.

This was made possible with multiple visits to Tahiti Nui, Ra'iatea, Borabora, Maupiti, Huahine and many other islands and meeting their geneology scholars of which there were many from 2000 to 2026.

I anga mai au i Te Toi o Ngā Rangi
I anga mai au i Tikitikiōrangi

I am a dimensional being, living within a multidimensional IO-verse.

Te Ōrokohanga Recital is a living Whakapapa–Tātai Arorangi oral tradition through which I participate in the ordering of the multidimensional IO-verse through whakapapa, Waiata Ruruku (chants), and sacred history.

During this recital, I recite over 750 tūpuna names and chant 20 source Waiata Ruruku that recount the origins of the multidimensional IO-verse.

Through its sacred rhythm, harmonics of reverberation, breath, memory, and living infrastructure, the recital progressively brings my mind, body, heart, spirit, soul,

and mauri into harmony with the multidimensional IO-verse established by IO, allowing my whole being to be restored, regulated, and aligned with Te Tikanga Nui o Te Mana Tuku Iho—the Inherent Order and Authority of IO.This lineage flows directly:

From IO Tahi

to IO Wana

to IO Wa

to IO Te Rangitūātinitini

to IO Te Rangi Māruarua

to IO Retea

to IO Tete

to IO Totoro

to Te Whatu Tini Tangaroa 

to Te Whatukura a Tangaroa

to Ta‘aroa Nui Tahi Tumu

to Āio Te Korekore

to IO Matua Korekore

to IOrangi

to Ruahatu Tupua

to Tinirau Ariki

to Tamatoa Ariki Te Ra‘ituatinitini

to Ātoroiraʻi 1

to Whitirangimamao

to Kupe Nuku (8th)

to Nukutāwhiti 

to Puhimoanaariki 

to Rāhiri I Te Rangi

to Waimirirangi 

to Te Reinga 

to Te Ngaropo Tawio Pouroto Tohunga of Te Wānanga Ō Taitokerau, Hokianga

to Te Whatukura a Tangaroa: Kupe Nuku IO-Ariki 9th

This is not a reconstructed genealogy.

This genealogy is carried and handed down from IO to Kupe, to Nukutawhiti to Te Wānanga Ō Taitokerau to Te Whatukura a Tangaroa, Kupe Nuku IO-Ariki - Tangaroa Ngaropo Tawio Pouroto who was initiated into Te Whatupungapunga Whare Wānanga by Pātariki Ruka.

  It is a recited continuity, transmitted through Te Whare IO, Sacred Primordial Whare Of IO, and IO Tohunga, IO Priesthood, which at one time it was only ever written down, now they are held by memory alone, without manuscripts, without written record, and without external validation.

Seven hundred and fifty generations — carried through human memory, breath, and responsibility — is not symbolism.

It is evidence of the endurance of survival from within the IO tradition itself. 

This genealogy has been fully recited by memory on six tapu occasions in the last two years, from 12am  to sunrise, 2024 - 2026:

1. Mokonuiārangi Marae, Utakura, Hokianga — February 2024 by Tūmoana

2. Waiwhatawhata Marae, Hokianga — December 2024 by Tūmoana

3. Hikurangi Mountain, East Coast, Ruatoria — January 2025 by Tūmoana

4. Te Kōhanga Ō Ngā Kāhui Ariki, Kuramarotini, Ōtautahi — February 2025 by Tangaroa

5. Tau Rangatira, Waitangi, Ngā Pou Whakairo, Te Pē Ō Whairangi — February 2025 by Tūmoana and Tangaroa

6. Marae Vaeāra‘i, Tomokanga ki Ngā Rangitūhaha, Ōpoa, Ra‘iātea — 13 – 18 July 2025 by Tangaroa

7. Te Kōhanga Ō Ngā Kāhui Atua, Otautahi, 19th to 24th of July, 2026 by Kupe Nuku IO-Ariki.

This genealogy is not performed.

It is not taught.

It is not circulated.

It is spoken only when required, where permitted, and to those who are present to carry the weight of it.

This is; 

Te Kanohi Ora,

Te Mataora,

Te Mauri Ora -  living state of being — held in place by Te Tikanga Nui Ō Te Mana Tuku IO, The Supreme Order Of IO Inherent Authority, and Te Whare Atua Ō IO, IO Priesthood within its living infrastructure forever. 

Only the initiated may speak the sacred name of IO.

Only the initiated may recite IO karakia.

All outside of IO Authority may not recite the sacred name of IO and are to be corrected immediately.

The public names of IO should be adopted by the uninitiated.

The public names of IO from Te Whatupungapunga Whare Wānanga Ō Nukutāwhiti are: Tangaroa and Rehua. Outside usages are Uenuku, Te Whatu and Tumu. 

IO stands in all time.

The Rangitūhaha is open.

The Primordial Whare Of IO is open.

The IO Priesthood is gathered, and ready.

No response is required.

No validation is required.