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Te Ao Maori
The Maori (New Zealand Indigenous People) World
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Undergraduate 1
08/22/2013

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Ranginui
Definition
Sky Father
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Papatuanuku
Definition
Earth Mother
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Tangaroa
Definition
The separator child. God of the Sea
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Te Ao Marama
Definition
Maori Epistemology, full knowledge acheived at death. The natural world. the world and all its phenomena.
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Tapu
Definition
sacred, sacrosanct, used by tohunga
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tohunga
Definition
priest; expert
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ihi
Definition
power; essential force
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wehi
Definition
fear
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mana
Definition
authority; influence; power; prestige.
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te kore
Definition
the great void or emptiness. timeless period inhabited by Io the parentless one. Culminating into Te Po,
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Te Po
Definition
The darkness of inner space, led to Ranginui and Papatuanuku, who begat Maori Atua.
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Atua
Definition
Gods
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Mana Atua
Definition
Mana associated with the gods
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hakapapa
Definition
locates phenomena
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hautupua hou
Definition
encounter with new phenomena
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the one child who disagreed
Definition
taawhirimaatea
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