Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
May 5, 2011 · Story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori The Māori natural world teemed with gods and unseen beings and required thoughtful navigation. Tohunga (priests) assisted people with special incantations and rites to appease the gods.
Page 1. Ngā atua – the gods - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
At the centre of Māori religion were the atua or gods. In Māori belief the natural and supernatural worlds were one – there was no Māori word for religion. The use of the term ‘whakapono’ for religion was introduced by missionaries. Whakapono also means faith and trust.
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Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori by Basil Keane. The Māori natural world teemed with gods and unseen beings and required thoughtful navigation. Tohunga (priests) assisted people with special incantations and rites to appease the gods.
Page 4. Māori and religion - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
From the late 1820s Māori transformed their moral practices, religious lives and political thinking, as they made Christianity their own. By the mid-1840s, probably a larger proportion of Māori than Britons in the United Kingdom regularly attended services.
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Story: Māori creation traditions - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
Every culture has its traditions about how the world was created. Māori have many of them, but the most important stories are those that tell how darkness became light, nothing became something, earth and sky were separated, and nature evolved. Through the spoken repetition of these stories, the...
Page 5. Rituals and ceremonies - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New …
Because spiritual forces such as mana, tapu and mauri were seen as all-pervasive, people navigated the spiritual world through karakia and ritual. Most ceremonies and rituals required the services of tohunga.. Scholar Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) defined ritual as ‘the form of conducting the whole rite relating to one subject and it may include various ceremonial acts in addition to the ...
Daily life in Māori communities – te noho a te hapori
Many people practised both traditional Māori religion and Christianity. After the Second World War many Māori, especially the young, moved to the cities for work. Some returned to their home marae often, while others found community in urban marae, or in gangs.
Page 1. Intolerance towards Māori - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of …
Under the Human Rights Commission Act 1977, discrimination on the grounds of marital status, sex, religion and ethical belief also became illegal. Pākehā intolerance and institutional discrimination were extensively challenged.
Māori creation traditions - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Two worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642–1772. Auckland: Viking, 1991.