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Tohunga : the revival : ancient knowledge for the modern era / Samuel Timoti Robinson.
- Title
- Tohunga : the revival : ancient knowledge for the modern era / Samuel Timoti Robinson.
- Author
- Robinson, Samuel Timoti.
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Reed Books, 2005.
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- Description
- 320 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Part One, Te Wananga o Te Ao Marama, tells of the coming of the world of light. It recounts oral creation traditions from the Io priesthood. In Part Two, Tohungatanga, discusses Maori esoteric knowledge. It explains how the student of tohunga lore was originally introduced to the priesthood via initiation and looks at the tohunga schools of learning. It follows the grade structure of tohunga learning, including traditional methods of communicating with the atua, reading weather signs, reciting chants, understanding the roles of the atua and healing. The last chapters are devoted to the lore of Io-matua-kore, the higher cosmology of the Io religion.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-316) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One -- Te wananga o te ao marama = into the world of light -- 1. Te wananga o nga kore -- 2. Te wananga o nga po -- 3. Te wananga o nga rangi -- 4. Te wananga o te paerangi -- 5. Te wananga o nga pou-tiriao -- 6. Te wananga o Pohutukawa -- 7. Te wananga o te tangata -- 8. Te wananga o Maui -- 9. Te wananga o nga kete wananga -- 10. Te wananga o Ruatapu -- Part Two -- Tohungatanga = the art and practice of the tohunga -- 11. Spiritual origins -- 12. The schools of learning -- 13. Poutahi : whakapapa = first degree of genealogy -- 14. Pourua : purakau = second degree of mythology -- 15. Poutoru : tohunga-tuahu = third degree of the ritual priest -- 16. Pouwha : tohunga-matakite = fourth degree of the seeing priest -- 17. Pourima : tohunga-rongoa = fifth degree of the healing priest -- 18. Pouono : tohunga-ruanuku = sixth degree of the war priest -- 19. Pouwhitu : tohunga -- ahurewa = seventh degree of the high priest -- 20. Cosmology unveiled : nga kore tau = the not periods -- 21. Childbirth and the cosmos -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
- ISBN
- 079001002X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005432060
- OCLC
- 70258719
- SCSB-11893477
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library