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The word karakia, which we use for prayer, formerly meant a spell, charm, or incantation [...] [Maori] have spells suited for all circumstances – to conquer enemies, catch fish, trap rats, and snare birds, to make their kumara grow, and even to bind the obstinate will of woman; to find anything lost; to discover a stray dog; a concealed enemy ...
The accepted English common names of a number of species of animal and plant native to New Zealand are simply their Māori names or a close equivalent: huhu a type of large beetle huia a recently extinct bird, much prized traditionally by Māori for its feathers kākā a native parrot kākāpō a rare native bird kahikatea a type of large tree ...
The Maori bank depositors, finding their money gone, raided the bank, looking for their cash and finding none, burnt it down in 1884. [47] Thoroughly disillusioned, Tāwhiao tried various initiatives to promote the independence and welfare of his people but he had been effectively marginalized.
Both categories merge in whakapapa to explain the overall origin of the Māori and their connections to the world which they lived in. The Māori did not have a writing system before European contact, beginning in 1769, [ 1 ] therefore they relied on oral retellings and recitations memorised from generation to generation.
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]
One day, their children become so sick of this that they discuss a plan to separate them and allow light into the world. Tū advises his brothers to kill their parents, [2] but the kinder proposal of Tāne is accepted and he instead forces the primordial pair apart. [5]: 7–10 A human face depicted in a house carving from Whakarewarewa, 2005 ...
Reciting one's whakapapa proclaims one's Māori identity, places oneself in a wider context, and links oneself to land and tribal groupings and their mana. [ 1 ] Experts in whakapapa can trace and recite a lineage not only through the many generations in a linear sense, but also between such generations in a lateral sense.
Another little-known term for patupaiarehe was pakehakeha, which has been suggested as a possible origin of the word pākehā, used to refer to Europeans. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It has been theorised that when the first European explorers clashed with Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri (of the Kurahaupō ) during mid-December 1642, the iwi may have interpreted the ...