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Karakia are Māori incantations and prayer used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection. [1] They are also considered a formal greeting when beginning a ceremony . According to legend, there was a curse on the Waiapu River which was lifted when George Gage (Hori Keeti) performed karakia.
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (English: Māori Language Week) is a government-sponsored initiative intended to encourage New Zealanders to promote the use of the Māori language which is an official language of the country.
He followed her, chanting a karakia to turn himself into a rupe as he fell, before landing in a tunnel. Creeping along, he ventured into a vast underground land and spotted his mother under a pūriri tree with a man. He flew into the tree and dropped berries onto the man to make him look up but was stopped when the man got angry, demanding ...
Ko te huringa 40 tau tēnei o Te Māori, te whakaaturanga taonga Māori whakahirahira i haere ki te Amerika, kātahi ka hoki mai ki Aotearoa.Tēnā te tai timu ka pao te tōrea ki te whakahaere i ngā tauoma takatā e rua hei whakapai ake i ngā kōrero ā-tuhi e hāngai ana ki te whakaaturanga.
A similar story, attributed to Ngāti Awa sources, but actually derived from an 1871 manuscript by Wiremu Te Wheoro, appears in John White The Ancient History of the Maori: IV Tainui (1888). [18] The story of Tamainu-pō's flight was also reported by Mohi Te Rongomau of Ngāti Hourua and Ngāti Māhanga in the Ōtorohanga Land Court on 23 ...
Cook Islands Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language that is the official language of the Cook Islands.Cook Islands Māori is closely related to, but distinct from, New Zealand Māori.
In December 2022, Mayor of Kaipara Craig Jepson's ban on karakia (Māori prayers) from Kaipara District Council proceedings provoked a hīkoi (protest march) in Dargaville. The hīkoi was organised by Paturiri Toautu, who stood as a candidate for the Kaipara council's new Te Moananui o Kaipara Māori ward during the 2022 New Zealand local ...
Christ Church (Māori: Te Whare Karakia o Kororareka) is New Zealand's oldest surviving church, [1] located in the village of Russell. [2] The Anglican church was built in 1835 by Gilbert Mair under the supervision of Charles Baker (later Reverend), and originally held services in both English and Māori. It was also occasionally used as the ...