📖 Pānui | Read Carefully

He wāhi tapu, he wāhi rangatira te marae — he tohu nui o te ahurea Māori. Ko te marae te pūtake o te hapū, o te iwi hoki. I reira ka huihui ngā tāngata mō ngā kaupapa nui o te ao — pērā i ngā tangi, ngā hui, ngā pōwhiri, me ngā wānanga. He wāhi e honoa ai ngā tāngata ki ō rātou tīpuna, ki ō rātou whenua, ki ō rātou reo me ō rātou tikanga.

Ko te marae ātea te wāhi tuatahi e tūtaki ai ngā manuhiri me ngā tangata whenua. He wāhi noa, ā, he wāhi tapu hoki — ko ngā karanga me ngā whaikōrero ka rere i konei. Ka mutu te pōwhiri, ka tūtaki ngā tāngata katoa mā te hongi — ko tērā te tohu o te manaaki me te aroha.

Ko te wharenui te whare matua o te marae. He whare e tū ana hei tohu o te tīpuna — ko ngā kāwai o te wharenui ko ngā ringaringa, ko te tāhuhu ko te tuarā, ko ngā maihi ko ngā māhanga. Nō reira, ka noho ngā tāngata i roto i te tinana o tō rātou tīpuna. Ka kitea hoki ngā whakairo me ngā tukutuku i roto i te wharenui — ko ēnei he kōrero nā ngā mātua tūpuna mō ngā whakapapa me ngā pakiwaitara o te hapū.

Ko te whare kai ōku whare anō o te marae — he wāhi e kai ai ngā tāngata, e kōrero ai, e whanaungatanga ai. Ko te kai he tohu o te manaakitanga — ko tērā tino tikanga nui ki te ao Māori.

I ēnei rā, ka whakamahia tonu te marae hei wāhi ako, hei wāhi wānanga, hei wāhi hoki mō ngā kaupapa ā-hapū. Ka āta tiakina e ngā kaumātua me ngā rangatahi ngā tikanga o te marae kia ora tonu ai te ahurea Māori mō ngā uri whakatipu. Ko te marae te manawa o te hapū — ka ora te marae, ka ora te iwi.

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