| This ensured no less than the maintenance of the tapu or sacred status of ariki, chiefs and people of rank. |
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| When a sick person died, the tohunga would blame it on the patient, saying they had breached tapu or had committed a spiritual transgression. |
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| This is not to say that one category 'is' tapu and that the other 'is' noa. |
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| In Maoridom, a tapu area is considered sacred and holy and it is believed that anyone breaking the rahui will face spiritual consequences. |
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| It says the Te Tumu Pa site, river mouth and river margins should be tapu forever out of respect for the tribes which fought there. |
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| National members said they would recognise the relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, wahi tapu, and other taonga. |
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| The tapu must be lifted from the manuhiri before one can enter. |
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| For them, the breast is a tapu area of the body, with a diagnosis of cancer or having a breast amputation akin to a death sentence. |
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| Taboo, also spelled tabu, Tongan tabu, Maori tapu, the prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behaviour is either too sacred and consecrated or too dangerous and accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake. |
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| Blessing the clothes and linen used by the deceased is one of those rituals carried out according to the laws of tapu and noa. |
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| Te paori needed to ensure that its vatues of manaakitanga, whakapapa, wairua, mauri, mana and tapu were upheld and reflected in the tohu. |
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| The meeting gave us all the opportunity to discuss and reconnect with our values of whakapapa, wairua, mauri, mana and tapu. |
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| The unit works collaboratively with the He Waka Tapu Trust, with both agencies providing free clinics for women in the priority groups. |
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| Between them, nurses Christina Tapu and Mele Talamahina are responsible for 25 churches within two zones. |
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