Wairua

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The domain wairua.nz was registered in early 2016 for personal private use and is currently without a public facing website.

Wairua is a Te Reo Maori Word for spirit or soul. From the description on Te Ara’s website (on this page)…

Wairua is the spirit of a person. Wairua can leave the body and go wandering. When a person dies it is their wairua which lives on. Traditionally Māori believed that when they died they would go to rarohenga (the underworld). In northern traditions, this involved travelling te ara wairua (the pathway of spirits) to te rerenga wairua (the leaping place of spirits). Wairua would then descend to the sea.

Other resources and links on the Internet covering the concepts of Wairua…


Fergus Young
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