The Source: An Interview With Henri Hiro
(Rai a Mai)
Ho mai na, a poem by Henri Hiro,
means giving everything, the way a mother gives everything she
possesses to her son. The mother gives, and when she has given
everything possible, the son can go on from there. He will always have
his mother near him; his mother connects him to the source of
everything: his roots, his blood, his ancestral lineage...The child is
made whole because of these connections and can proceed. The mother is
the symbol of the direct link, the parental link; the land is the
mother. That genealogical linkage is the umbilical cord, the pu fenua, the placenta.
?The Source: An Interview with Henri Hiro? was done
by the writer and journalist Rai a
Mai for the daily Tahiti paper ?Les Nouvelles?. Henri Hiro was the
leader of the cultural revival that took place in Papeete, Tahiti in the late 70?s. He used the wearing
of a
pareu as a symbolic gesture,
which was understood by some at that time as a break, a shock, a provocation
and then became ordinary as more and more wore the pareu. The pareu reconciled polynesians with what
was always profoundly a part of them. It reconciled them with themselves.
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