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1. (noun) liver.
Ka oti te tinana, ka kumea ngā ringaringa, ka kumea ngā waewae, ka pokaia te tara, ka kumea ngā raho, ka whakanohoia ngā puapua, ngā werewere, ngā hanahana, te katitohe, ka kumea te tonetone, ka pokaia te kumu, ka whakanohoia te piro me te puku, te mahara, te ate, ngā tākihi, te tōngāmimi, ka hangā te ārai, ka oti katoa ngā mea o te tinana (HWM 27). / When the body was completed, the arms and legs were drawn out, the vagina was pierced, the labia majora was drawn out, and the ovaries, the labia minora, the vulva, and the hymen were implanted, the clitoris was drawn out, the anus was pierced and the odour, the stomach, the spleen, the liver, the kidneys and the bladder were implanted, and the diaphragm was made and the body was completed.
Synonyms: mahamaha
2. (noun) seat of emotions, heart.
I taua hui, ka pāngia a Mākarini, te tama mātāmua a Ngata e te kōea, ā, i te hoa rangatira o Ngata, i a Arihia e tiaki ana i a Mākarini i te kāinga, ka pā anō hoki taua mate ki a ia. He ika paerua te parekura, nā te mea kāre i taea wawetia te tiki he rongoā tika mō rāua. Pākikini ana te ate o Ngata, ā, he wā a Ngāti Porou rāua ko Tainui e noho matakēkē ana (TTR 1996:108). / At the hui Mākarini, Ngata's eldest son, contracted dysentery and while Ngata's wife, Arihia, was nursing Mākarini at home, she caught it too. Both died before they could get proper medicine. Ngata was devastated, and for a time there was ill feeling between Ngāti Porou and Tainui.
Synonyms: mahamaha, whatumanawa
2. (noun) soul mate, lover, partner, darling.
Synonyms: hoa, hoa haere kōtui, hoa rangatira, tahu, kairoro, hoa tākunekune, ipo, whaiāipo, tau, makau
hurihanga takapau
1. (noun) ritual performed when warriors return from battle and require the tapu on them to be removed - included the kindling of two fires. One fire, the ahi horokaka was where the priest ate a kūmara and at the ahi ruahine a woman also ate a single kūmara. It was the woman who removed the tapu. This ceremony was accompanied by karakia. The warriors involved did not eat the kūmara.
