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Māori followed certain practices that relate to traditional concepts like tapu.Certain people and objects contain mana – spiritual power or essence. In earlier times, tribal members of a higher rank would not touch objects which belonged to members of a lower rank – to do so would constitute "pollution"; and persons of a lower rank could not touch the belongings of a highborn person ...
Precolonial society in the Marianas was based on a caste system, Chamori being the name of the ruling, highest caste. [9]After Spain annexed and colonized the Marianas, the caste system eventually became extinct under Spanish rule, and all of the Indigenous residents of the archipelago eventually came to be referred to by the Spanish exonym Chamorro.
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]
The religion gained widespread support among North Island Māori and became closely associated with the Māori King Movement, [citation needed] but also became the cause of deep concern among European settlers as it united tribes in opposition to the Pākehā [11] and helped to inspire fierce military resistance to colonial forces, particularly ...
[128] [129] At the 2018 New Zealand census, 7.7 per cent of Māori were affiliated with Māori religions, beliefs, and philosophies; 29.9 per cent with Christian denominations and 53.5 per cent of Māori claimed no religion. Proportions of Christian and irreligious Māori are comparable with European New Zealanders. [126]
Ārohirohi, the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat.; Hinauri, sister, or uncommonly, wife of Māui, associated with the moon.; Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty. ...
Most of the missionaries who did master the language were unsympathetic to Māori beliefs, [4] regarding them as 'puerile beliefs', or even 'works of the devil'. [4] Exceptions to this general rule were Johan Wohlers of the South Island , [ a ] Richard Taylor , who worked in the Taranaki and Wanganui River areas, and William Colenso who lived ...
For the Maori, the land was not merely a resource, but a connection to ancestors. [4] The mana of the tribe was strongly associated with the lands of that tribe. From this came the Maori proverb "Man perishes, but the land remains." The Maori beliefs included Atua, invisible spirits connected to natural phenomena such as rainbows, trees, or stones.