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Maori Culture

Maori gods

Tu-matauenga

God of war

Tane

Father of humans

and god of the forests

Tawhirmatae

God of weather

Ruaumoko

God of earthquakes

Maori religon

Tangoroa; god of the sea

Humia; god of uncultivated food

The maori have a very spirtual perspective on the world. Anything involving supernatural qualities was considered Tapu, a mysterious quality people or objects are imbued with with it sacred or unclean. Objects and people also could posses mana, a psychic power.Both qualities were either inherited or acquired through contact with spirits. Therefore an object could be made Tapu and become off-limits. The punishment for violating a Tapu restriction was immediate. Usualy starts as sickness ten after awhile leads to death.

Moari supreme god is Io, he created the parents of the eight Maori gods, Papa and Rangi; the eight children are Huamia; the god of uncultivated food. Rongo; god of peace and agriculture. Ruaumoko; god of earthquakes. Tawhirimatea; god of weather. Tane; father of humans and god of the forests. Tangoroa; god of the sea. Tu-matauenga; god of war. And Whiro; god of darkness and evil.

There are many other gods but those are only in specific families, most of those gods are involved in war.

The seniors of the family in the Maori cultue are responsible for all the rituals and they need to know all the tribal history. Shamans instead of priests serve the family gods where they communicated through the possesion of sorcery.

Most public rites were out in the open, the gods were given the first fruits of all undertakings, slaves were occasionally sacrificed. Incantations were repeated flawlessly to influence the gods.

Maori religon

The dying and dead were taken to a shelter on the Marae; the body was laid out on a mat to recive

mourners. After a couple weeksthe body is wrapped up and buried in a cave, hung in a tree, or

buried in the ground.After a year the ariki would have the body exhumed, have the bones srcaped and

painted with red ochre. Then the bones are buried in a sacred burial place.The spirits are supposed to then

take a journey to their final destination, a mysterious underworld.

Now a days most maori people are catholic.

before they had contact with outside cultures, Maori religon was based on Tapu and Mana. Mana is an impersonal

force that can be inherited or acquired theoughout a person's lifetime.. Tapu is the sacredness assigned by the

status of birth. There is a very big difference between the two. Chiefs with the most mana also have the most tap.

The english word "taboo" derives from thos general polynesian word and concept of a mysterious superhuman

force. Ancestor worship is a very important part in traditional religon.

Christian Maori celebrate most of the cristian holidays. Holidays as western people view did not exist until

they had contact with oustside cultures. A contreversial Maori holiday is Waitangi day; this holiday

commerorates the 1840 singing of the treaty that was to guarantee their rites and privileges. in 1994

Maori radicals disrupted Waitangi day, forcing the govenment to cancel the festivities.

Modern day Maori rites of passage are similar to back six-hundred years ago. Specific Maori traditions

are still practiced today, for example, at a wedding a relative of the groom challenge sthe father of

bride to a fight. The bride's father then walks up and is greeted.

Maori education

Maori children today in modern times have formal learnng in schools where the kids do tests

amd learn their language with worksheets and papers.

SIx- hundred years ago most of the children informaly learned their language from their mothers at the age of eight.

Every day the children would parctice the words of the Maori language and their parents wpuld listen and correct their pronounciation until they get it right.

Ta Moko

Maori tatooing

A couple of Maori arts are kowhaiwhai,an art on a rock representing

wildlife, human figures, and Maori myths. The ink that they use is made

out of special berries only found on the island of New Zealand. Another

art that Maori's do is Ta Moko; the Maori tatooing, it is like the person's

history of achievments and represents their status in the tribe.

The tools they use to create Ta Moko are chisels that make

grooves in the skinunlike a tatoo that has a smooth surface. The chisels

are made of albatross bone. Some have a straight edge, some have a

serrated edge.

Where the Maori lives is a big impact on how they create their art

because they can't just walk into an art store and buy supplies, instead they

make their art and their art supplies out of nature.

A Maori musical instrument is a flute, it is made of albatross bone,

wood, and sometimes human bone. they are about twelve to fifteen centimeters

long. when the instrument isn't being played, it is worn around the neck.

The flute only has three finger holes, and when it is played it makes a haunting

sound.

One of the most famous Maori artists is Gabrielle Belz (b. 1947) a Maori artist

from the Nga Puhi and Ati Awa tribes. He is a full time painter and a member

of the Comtemporary Maori Arts Commitee.

Maoris create on their body because that involves war and every time a Maori

member killed someone from another tribe, he would gain more Ta moko. The

more Ta Moko, the better becausewhen you get more Ta Moko, your status in the

tribe goes up.

The Maori also havc a religous dance, it is to hype them for war. It is called Haka.

The Maori rugby team the All Blacks perform this before every game to scare their

opponents. At the end of Haka, they stick out their tounges to show their enemies

after I kill you, i'm going to kill you.

Maori Art Expression

Maori Kinship

In a Maori family the husband can have as many wives as he wants. A Maori family is made up of a husband, wife/wives, children, grandparents, cousins, uncles/aunts, and slaves. The Maori family is a patriarchy where the husband rules the family decisions and tells everyone what to do.

Maori children work all day with the mother working on the farm all day until it

is time to go have dinner or until it is time to go to sleep, and the chidren do this every day until they are old enough to marry.

By: Matt s.

Maori family

Maori children

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