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Te Ao Mārama is a concept of the world in Māori culture. Te Ao Mārama, also known as Te Ao Tūroa ("The Long-Standing World"), [1] refers to the physical plane of existence that is inhabited by people, and is associated with knowledge and understanding. The phrase is variously translated as "The World of Light", "the World of Understanding ...
Ao (daylight) is one of the primal deities who are the unborn forces of nature in Māori mythology. Ao is the personification of light, clouds, and the ordinary world, as opposed to darkness ( Pō ) and the underworld .
Gradually Te Ao (The Light) glimmered into existence, stretching to all corners of the universe to become Te Aotūroa (The Long-Standing Light). [9] Next came Te Ata (The Dawn), from which came Te Mākū (The Moisture), and Mahoranuiatea (Cloud of the Dawn). Te Mākū and Mahoranuiatea wed to form Rangi. [10]: 56
A fundamental aspect ofTe Māori was the inclusion of tikanga Māori, practices and values guided by te ao Māori or Māori worldview. [22] This included dawn ceremonies, traditional karakia , speeches in Māori, waiata and kapa haka , during which some warriors had moko on their faces.
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]
Rarohenga is the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori oral tradition. [1] The underworld is ruled by Hine-nui-te-pō, the goddess of death and night.
New Zealand’s central bank chief defended its use of the Maori language in official communications on Wednesday, as the country’s new centre-right government looks to roll back the use of the ...
Te Ao Hou / The New World was the first national magazine for Māori. [1] [2] [3]: 73 The editorial of the first issue published in 1952 said that the magazine was designed "to provide interesting and informative reading for Maori homes", and that it would be like a marae, "where all questions of interest to the Maori can be discussed".