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… and returned to preach to their own people. The missionary tohunga Thomas Kendall , a missionary who arrived in the Bay … on religion and the sacred. He began a relationship with Tohungaroa, the daughter of a tohunga named Rākau, later saying he did so ‘to obtain …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… as a prophet. Although Mere had some of the mana of a tohunga, the church was based on Christian scriptures and … past and eliminating old tapu, including the powers of the tohunga, Māramatanga blended Māori custom and Catholic …
Type: Biography
… cook of the company’s land agent Dicky Barrett. They took a tohunga (Māori priest) as guide. The first attempt failed, …
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Part of story: European exploration
… the canoe is said to have been turned into stone by the tohunga Hau. The ancestor Rangitāne Whātonga eventually …
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Part of story: Rangitāne
… latrines were known as turuma or paepae. These were used by tohunga in various rituals, including ngau paepae (biting …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… Wānanga of Taperenui, where his mentor was Pita Kapiti, a tohunga of high standing. He is said to have made a … Christian ministry he used the arts he had learned from the tohunga. In September 1864, after four years study at … Meri, that he and his wife, Kāterina Naki, went to the tohunga, Hākopa, to perform the rites that would give them …
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… Nukutawhiti. A metaphysical battle followed, and Ruanui’s tohunga (priests) chanted incantations, compelling a huge whale to beach itself as a sacrifice. Nukutawhiti’s tohunga performed opposing incantations, attempting to push …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… to the South Island he became a follower of Ngāi Tahu tohunga Hipa Te Maihāroa , at Te Wai-a-Te Ruatī, near … leadership of Ngāi Tahu, who sympathised with the tohunga but did not approve of his actions. In October 1878 …
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… Most ceremonies and rituals required the services of tohunga. Scholar Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) defined ritual … of water might have a rāhui placed on it by a rangatira or tohunga to prevent it being used for a period. Tā i te kawa …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori
… held her fast in the current of the Kaituna River. The tohunga Ngātoroirangi was the first to step off, conducting … from Moehau to the Coromandel Peninsula. Tama’s cousin, the tohunga Ngātoroirangi, explored from Kawerau through to …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… the Tainui canoe what the land was like. Ngātoroirangi, the tohunga (priest), replied: It is good. There is one-tai … and soil, was often used as a mauri (talisman). Ruawharo, a tohunga of the Tākitimu canoe, stopped at Māhia and …
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Part of story: Oneone – soils
… and they maintained a strong and unbroken line of tohunga whakairo (master carvers) into the modern era. Tohunga whakairo Wero Tāroi Ngāti Tarāwhai carver Wero Tāroi …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… for sprinkling or immersion. Central to healing was the tohunga, an expert and a spiritual and religious leader. The …
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Part of story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health
… a bird. Tapu (spiritual restriction) was invoked by the tohunga (priest), and remained in force until harvest. This …
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Part of story: Kūmara
… described by Hāmiora Tumutara Pio, a paramount chief and tohunga of Ngāti Awa: Koia tēnei; ko te toroa noho au, E …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… in the sea or in a deep pool of water. After a time the tohunga would return and collect the bones for the hahunga …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… spirit into the afterlife. The karakia were chanted by a tohunga. Preparing the body Because of the intensity of the …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… the fall, and the practicality of moving the fallen tree. A tohunga would then say incantations to remove tapu …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… Broughton (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru) became the student of a tohunga named Rākei Kīngi, who passed on his knowledge of … Anglican priest, although he maintained his activities as a tohunga. In 1979 he was appointed a lecturer in Māori at …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… magic hook, the landscape was formed by fire-brandishing tohunga and powerful ancestors. Lakes were hollowed out with …
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Part of story: Geomorphology – a history