What does Tupapaku meaning?

Tangihanga, or more commonly, tangi, is a traditional Māori funeral rite held on a marae. The tūpāpaku is transported (usually from a hospital and via a funeral home) to the marae. There they are welcomed with a pōwhiri and will lie in state for at least two nights, usually in an open coffin, in the wharenui.

What is the purpose of a tangihanga?

The tangihanga is the enduring Māori ceremony for mourning someone who has died. It is commonly called a tangi, which also means to weep, and to sing a dirge (a lament for the dead). The dead play an important role in Māori traditions.

What do you say when someone dies in Māori?

They know not decay or death, they live for ever; they are unlike the people of this world; man is born but to be caught in the snare of Hine.” So it is that, when a person dies, an old saying of the Maori folk is quoted: “Me tangi, kāpā ko te mate i te marama” (Let us mourn and weep for him, for truly he dieth not as …

What does Tupapaku stand for in Maori Dictionary?

1. (noun) corpse, deceased, cadaver, deceased person’s body. Ko Te Tapuwae tonu te urupā rongonui o roto o Rūātoki. Tae rawa mai ki te tau 1955, kua kōpāpā rawa hai tanu tūpāpaku (TTR 1990:238). / Te Tapuwae remains the important burial place in Rūātoki. By 1955 it had become too crowded for further burials.

Where was Tupapaku found in the morgue?

Pau katoa taua pō e kimihia ana, nō te ata rawa kātahi ka kitea i roto i te whare tūpāpaku e takoto ana (TP 5/1912:9). / They searched for him all that night and finally, in the morning, he was found lying in the morgue.

What is the meaning of the word Tupe?

Kātahi ka tahuri ki te tupe i te tūpāpaku; nā, kua ngoikore te tūpāpaku, heoti anō ka mau (NM 1928:101). / Then he set about doing the tupe ritual spell on the intended victim; and the target victim became weak and so was caught. 1. (noun) autopsy, postmortem. Kei te whānau tata te tikanga ki te whakahē ki tētahi tirotiro tūpāpaku (RT 2013:83).

What does Te Tapuwae mean in Maori Dictionary?

/ Te Tapuwae remains the important burial place in Rūātoki. By 1955 it had become too crowded for further burials. 2. (noun) sick person, seriously ill person, terminally ill person, invalid, sufferer – not a common usage in modern Māori.