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Religione e mitologia dei Maori. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Shortland - Enrico Baccarini, 2025 -
La prima edizione del testo Religione e Mitologia dei Maori, di Edward Shortland, vide la luce nel 1882. Il testo costitui` il primo tassello per iniziare a conoscere ed approfondire una cultura cosi` distante quanto affascinante ovvero di sondarne le antiche tradizioni e conoscenze.Questo volume contiene una conoscenza eterna e immutata, inalterata nel tempo e che potra` permettere al lettore di apprendere gli usi e le tradizioni di un popolo affascinante e per certi versi ancora oggi ignoto.Il desiderio del curatore è quello di portare per la prima volta in lingua italiana questo testo per rendere accessibile a chiunque un patrimonio culturale e sapienziale unico nel suo genere.
Maori religion and mythology. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Shortland - Simone Vannini, 2015 -
Chapter II contains a tradition as to Maori Cosmogony more particular in some details than I have ever met with elsewhere. My informant had been educated to become a tohunga; but had afterwards become a professing Christian. The narrative took place at night unknown to any of his people, and under promise that I would not read what I wrote to any of his people. When after some years I re-visited New Zealand, I learnt that he had died soon after I left, and that his death was attributed to the anger of the Atua of his family due to his having, as they expressed it, trampled on the tapu by making noa or public things sacred—he having himself confessed what he no doubt believed to be the cause of his illness.
Maori Religion and Mythology. E-book. Formato EPUB Edward Shortland - Books On Demand, 2018 -
The Maori had no tradition of the Creation. The great mysterious Cause of all things existing in the Cosmos was, as he conceived it, the generative Power. Commencing with a primitive state of Darkness, he conceived Po (=Night) as a person capable of begetting a race of beings resembling itself. After a succession of several generations of the race of Po, Te Ata (=Morn) was given birth to. Then followed certain beings existing when Cosmos was without form, and void. Afterwards came Rangi (=Heaven), Papa (=Earth), the Winds, and other Sky-powers, as are recorded in the genealogical traditions preserved to the present time.We have reason to consider the mythological traditions of the Maori as dating from a very antient period. They are held to be very sacred, and not to be repeated except in places set apart as sacred.