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Kōrero: Māori architecture – whare Māori

Whare whakairo

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Whare whakairo

E ai ki ētahi kōrero tuku iho ko te whare te tauira o te ao tonu. Kei waho ko Te Pō, kei roto ko Te Ao Mārama. Ko te papa ko Papatūānuku. E tūhono ngā pou i te papa ki te tāhuhu, arā hei tohu mō Ranginui. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Tane-nui-a-Rangi. Auckland: University of Auckland, 1988

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Deidre Brown, Māori architecture – whare Māori – Ancestral and mythological origins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/45736/whare-whakairo (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Deidre Brown, i tāngia i te 17 June 2014.