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Marae

Автор: Jesse Russel
Год: 2012
Издание: Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 170
ISBN: 9785512615393
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A marae (in New Zealand Maori, Cook Islands Maori, Tahitian) mala?e (in Tongan), malae (in Samoan and Hawaiian), is a communal or sacred place which serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the word also means "cleared, free of weeds, trees, etc." It generally consists of an area of cleared land roughly rectangular (the marae itself), bordered with stones or wooden posts (called au in Tahitian and Cook Islands Maori) perhaps with terraces (paepae) which were traditionally used for ceremonial purposes; and in some cases, a central stone ahu or a'u. In the Rapanui culture of Easter Island "ahu" has become a synonym for the whole marae complex). Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по...
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