Pōwhiri - Welcome ceremony at marae, Te Puia, Rotorua, New Zealand

A pōwhiri is a Māori welcoming ceremony involving speeches, dancing, singing and finally the hongi. It is used to both welcome guests onto a marae.The wero, an aggressive challenge of the visitor at the beginning of the ceremony, is the most spectacular part of the pōwhiri. During this part of the ceremony, Māori warrior will advance cautiously towards the guests with ceremonial weapons, and perform threatening gestures and grimaces, calling out battle screams, and generally giving an impression of being ready to explode into violence against the visitors at any moment.

[@smileychick3656]

Someone help me out here… idk if I remember correctly: does accepting/taking the offering mean that you mean no harm?

[@zealantis]

Yes, otherwise if you don’t it means you come to fight

[@mariusbaltazarrozenberg-ho9367]

My heart has melted.

[@erikajosa21]

Beautiful!

[@sevayestonirose]

Am I aloud to use this video in a video essay I am making or is this copyright?

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[@trueCrimeGuruYes]

Pōwhiri is pronounced Poefurri? Looking for someone pronouncing it on the videos but not finding that.

[@CallemJayNZ]

Pō is pronounced like Paw, Whi is pronounced like fi in the word fit, Ri is pronounced like Reef, with no F. So Paw-Fi-Ree. The R is pronounced as it would be in Spanish or Japanese

[@CallemJayNZ]

To the ear it would sound like Paw-Fitty

[@admiralgoodboy]

@@CallemJayNZ sort of the r is rolled

[@ryanrussell3382]

Hi

[@zealantis]

@@admiralgoodboythat’s why he says the “r” is pronounced how it would be in Spanish or Japanese 🤦‍♂️

[@iseetheWAYVision]

❤️

[@silentstorm7507]

This is soo perfect

[@nathle7725]

le cleu vous êtes la ???

[@JEmontagut]

oui !!!

[@sundrops4917]

Rotorua cuzzies

[@x1achilles99]

When I went to that town it stank so bad from the volcanic methane gas. It was awful.

[@Meow09]

@@x1achilles99 Only certain areas of our city stink. Its not even that bad when u get used to it bro

[@x1achilles99]

@@Meow09 you are correct. My comment was too negative. I was only a visitor for 53 hours so I've jumped to conclusions. Apologies.

[@x1achilles99]

And... I just remembered that there is an absolutely gorgeous and serene California Redwood forest there. It is completely planted but simply beautiful as most redwood groves are.

[@hasanolcay8786]

hastası oldum abi ya :D

[@richarddechatfield2297]

Yeah rooster

[@margaretmcdonald8024]

Doesn’t make me feel very welcome / a smile or two would help and not so much yelling.

[@christinapierrus7340]

😂😂 ok Margaret McDonald 😭💀