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ahu: ceremonial platform
- ana: cave
- ariki: king
- aku aku:
spirit of the ancestor
- hanga: bay
- hare paenga: boat shaped house
- heke: octopus
- hetu'u: star
- hiva: miyhical ancestral homeland
- honu: turtle
- hopu manu: young man who represented
a chief during a bird man competition
- hotu matu'a:
first paramount chief of the island
- ika: fish, victim
- iti: small, little
- kai: to eat
- kava kava: ribs
- koro: old man
- mahina: moon
- mahute: paper mulberry tree,
whose inner bark was prepared for clothing
- make make: creator god
- mana:
supernatural power or efficacy
- manavai: snote-walled garden
enclosure
- mangai: fishhook
- manu: bird
- manutara:
sooty tern
- mata: eye
- mata'a: obsidian
- matato'a: military chiefs
- matu'a: father
- maunga: mountain
- miro: tree, wood |
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moai: image, carving representing ancestors
- moai aringa ora: statue with
inlaid eyes: the "living face" of a particular ancestor
- moai kava kava: moai with ribs,
woodcarving representing an "emaciated man", a male spirit or aku
aku
- moai pa'a pa'a: femmale woodcarving
- moai pakeopa: local name for
modern woodcarving, replicas of moai Hoa Haka Nana Ia
- moai piro piro: local name for
a large moai at the Rano Raraku quarry, a model for modern woodcarving
with the same name
- moai tangata: male woodcarving
- motu: island
- nua: mother
- nui: big, large
- paenga: pollished basalt stone
for buildings; household social unit
- paoa: guardians (local lastname)
- pukao: topknot scoria cylinders
placed on top of some moai in ahu
- ra'a: sun
- rangi: sky
- rano: lagoon
- reimiro: carved wooden pectoral
in crescent form, symbol of the ariki
- rongo rongo: sacred recitation
- takona: tatoo
- tangata: man
- tangata manu: bird man
- tapa: bark cloth made of mahute
- tapu: sacred and prohibited
- toromiro: sacred tree
- tumu ivi atua: shaman
- tupuna: ancestor
- vai: water
- vi'e: woman |
