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Podcast: Paki KÄ“hua
Episode: Mauri
Description: Episode 34 – Mauri (Based on a True Story)Â
When a Wharenui is built, someone dies and becomes the Mauri for the whare. This is the old way of our people. Our family has always wanted to build a Wharenui, but they hesitate because of this and the randomness of who is chosen, so to speak. Sometimes our tipuna would avoid losing one of their own by choosing the person or people (often called a sacrifice) who would become the Mauri. I know of a whare, an old whare here in TÅ«wharetoa, where four slaves were given as the...