whakaahuatanga
1. (noun) reflection, illustration, photograph.
Ko te whakaahuatanga i mau i taua wā tonu kitea mai ana i ngā whārangi tuatahi i ngā nūpepa huri noa i te ao (TTR 1998:30). / The photograph taken at that moment was seen on the front page of newspapers around the world.
Synonyms: whakaahua, whakaatanga, ataata, whakaata, ata
2. (noun) transformation, metamorphosis.
Ko te taumata te whakaahuatanga o tā te kiriwhakaari mahi ki te kuhu i te kiripuaki e whakaarihia ana e ia. He pērā hoki te taumata o te kaihaka, inā ka kīia te wahine rehe ki te haka, ‘ko Hineruhi koe’. Arā kua whakaahua i a ia ki te atua nei o te whare tapere, ki a Hineruhi. Mō te kaihaka tāne, ka kīia ko Tānerore te whakaahuatanga (RMR 2017). / Transformation is the ultimate skill and achievement of an actor to enter into and become the character they are portraying. A similar pinnacle is reached in kapa haka where a woman expert in the arts of haka ‘becomes’ Hineruhi, one of the atua of the whare tapere. For a male, the transformation is to become Tānerore (RMR 2017).
Synonyms: kāhuarau
