Crossword-Solution: KARAKIA
We have 2 clues for the answer “KARAKIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Maori incantation | 1 answer |
| Maori prayer | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KARAKIA (5)
Taylor, the New Zealanders formerly used the word _karakia_ (now employed for "prayer") to signify a "spell, charm, or incantation," and the utterance of these karakias constituted the chief part of their cult.
The priest then either held it in the hand and vibrated it in the air whilst the powerful karakia was repeated, or he tied a piece of string (formed of the centre of a flax leaf) round the neck of the image and stuck it in the ground.
One can readily believe that the New Zealand bull-roarer may be whirled by any man who is repeating a Karakia, or 'charm to raise the wind':-- Loud wind, Lasting wind, Violent whistling wind, Dig up the calm reposing sky, Come, come.
Again and again came the voice, and now it rose and fell in the cadences of a magical song (or _Karakia_, if we _must_ have local colour), and the words were not of this world.
With much solemn karakia and propitiatory sacrifice, they tremblingly crept into the precincts of the bay.