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… At the centre of Māori religion were the atua or gods. In Māori belief the natural and supernatural worlds … in an eternal embrace. Their children, the departmental gods, were trapped between them in eternal darkness, and … foods. Other significant gods were the war gods, Maru, Uenuku and Kahukura. Gods and whakapapa In Māori …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… trapped between them in the darkness. Tūmatauenga (or Tū), god of war and mankind, wanted to kill the parents, but the others wanted to separate them. Tāne, the god of forests, separated the parents by pushing them apart. … and Uenuku were both war gods associated with rainbows. Maru was a well-known war god in Taranaki. In tradition, he …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… tauihu (prow). The historian Hoani Nahe recalled two Ngāti Maru waka taua – Otuiti and Okunui – in the late 1800s, … said to prevent it being knocked over by Tāwhirimātea, the god of the winds. Before felling, several aspects needed … to remove tapu (religious restriction) and propitiate Tāne, god of the forest. Once the tree was felled, tapu was …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… speak in a different voice, regarded as the voice of the god. One example is a famous tohunga of Ngāi Tūhoe named … whom he renamed Te Rehu-o-Tainui. A person through whom a god was being channelled was termed a waka atua (vessel of a … In one example a group was marching to battle when the god Maru appeared to their tohunga. He instructed where the …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… deity of kurī. He was the brother-in-law of Māui, the demigod. Māui was angered at his laziness, so while Irawaru was … the way to New Zealand, two kurī were sacrificed to the god Maru. The Tokomaru canoe, captained by Manaia, had a dog that jumped …
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Part of story: Kurī – Polynesian dogs
… In 1828, when Ngāti Maru of Thames destroyed Ōtamataha pā at Te Papa, Tauranga, … by Hōri Kīngi Tūpaea , to Thames to make peace with Ngāti Maru. There, on Sunday 12 April, he preached to the … our murders, our infanticide, our Tapus, which were Gods to us. What prevents our return to these things but …
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… Te Kooti was born into Ngāti Maru, a hapū of Rongowhakaata, at Pā-o-Kahu, overlooking the … a line of descent collateral to that of the senior Ngāti Maru chiefs. He had many wives. With his first wife, … ceremony over him. He dedicated Arikirangi to Tūmatauenga, god of war and of humankind. He attended the Whakatō …
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… in the Ngāti Porou haka, Rūaumoko (the earthquake god). Its pulsating rhythmic flow resounds with: He atua! He … to in a tribal saying: Hoake tāua ki Waiapu ki tātara e maru ana. Let us shelter under the thick matted cloak of …
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Part of story: Ngāti Porou
… He was also connected, through family marriages, with Ngāti Maru of Te Āti Awa. His paternal grandmother was of Ngā … sometimes associated with Uenuku. But Uenuku, the rainbow god, had kinder aspects, and it is certain that Tītokowaru's … as well as some Taranaki and Te Āti Awa (especially Ngāti Maru), and a few Waikato. He had strong sympathisers in the …
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… be derived. Warfare with Ngāti Hauā about 1830 forced Ngāti Maru north towards Hauraki, and by this time Ngāti Raukawa … people to 'hold fast to love, to the law, and to faith in God.' Te Wherowhero never regarded the kingship as being in …
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