Level 3 Edition 5
Karakia in Tourism MÄ ori
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RARANGI UPOKO – CONTENTS How to use this book........................................................................................................................................3 Karakia in Tourism Māori..................................................................................................... 4 Kārangi Whakamārama – Glossary.........................................................................................................18
About the cover image Water in its natural state is both spiritual and healing and is recognised as a cleansing element in religious and spiritual rituals. At the commencement of life, the child is sprinkled with water. Traditionally, a war party going out to war was sprinkled or immersed in water to cleanse them before coming under the tapu of the war god. On their return from battle, they were sprinkled again to remove the war tapu with its association of blood, so that they could resume normal relations with their wives and families. The individual who had broken a tapu restriction had his sin washed away ritually by the sprinkling of water. In severe sickness, the patient was immersed and a raupĹ? leaf or fern stalk was placed in contact with his body to provide a conveyance whereby the contaminating influences and disease demons might leave the body and be floated down the stream to oblivion. The undertakers, during exhumation activities, were saturated with the tapu of the dead which was removed by the water ritual to make them noa. So in divine rituals, water was an essential medium for purification.
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Karakia in Tourism Māori – Student Learning Material – Edition 4
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