Talk:Marae

message: I'm no expert in te reo, but I'm pretty sure 'marae' and 'whare' don't mean the same thing (and the article suggests this too). So why does 'whare' get re-directed here? Surely whare should get their own page. --Helenalex 07:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You were right, I have belatedly redirected Whare to Wharenui. Kahuroa (talk) 21:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Marae/Whare

message: Just as an uninformed reader, I would find it helpful if sizes could be discussed. How big/small do Marae get? Are they generally smallish places -- say 100 m on a side? (Just guessing from the first picture.) Do they get larger? Or smaller? (The one at the University seems to be really just a patch of grass.) A little discussion of this in the intro would be very helpful for someone like me who doesn't know if they're whole areas or more like a church or Zen garden. Thanks. Otherwise, great article. 69.17.73.214 (talk) 03:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They vary - people do whatever suits the local situation, it's not there's a blueprint followed all over Polynesia - you are also talking about a huge area of the Pacific so of course they are all different sizes, and the functions are different in different countries. And the Uni photo doesn't show the whole of the marae ātea, just the portion in front of the meeting house. It's not unusually small in real life. Kahuroa (talk) 21:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: size?

message: If more references can be included, this article may move to C-Class. Adabow (talk)  20:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I haven't got access to a decent Hawaiian dictionary. Because Pollex doesn't give a Hawaiian entry for "malae", I am wondering if the word occurs there or if it has been entirely supplanted by heiau. Online searches found malae = Malay, Malayan, Malaya (which is a different word), and the placename Malae (Māla‘e) which would not be a reflex of PPN *malaqe since the ' represents an original k. Kahuroa (talk) 21:45, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fact tag on Hawaiian word malae

message: This following sentence is entirely false and offensive - please remove it.
"In all these languages, the word also means "cleared, free of weeds, trees, etc."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.113.6.233 (talk) 00:03, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In what way is it offensive? See  for a list of languages with a closely-related word.-gadfium 21:50, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tapu-Tapu-A-Tea = Sacred - Sacred - Place of - Light 

message: I uploaded (right) an image of the interior of a marae building at the Auckland Memorial War Museum. I'm not sure how authentic it is, but consider using if useful. There are some other images of the same structure at :commons:Category:Hotunui meeting house. Dcoetzee 20:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  What a rant. Nice photo. The photo is of the interior of a meeting house or wharenui, rather than a marae, by the way.  It was carved in the 19th century by expert carvers of Ngati Awa  from Whakatane, as a gift for the marriage of a chief of Hauraki to a woman from Whakatane.  Power tools were definitely not available to its builders as they hadn't been invented yet. Piwaiwaka (talk) 09:18, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marae at Auckland War Memorial Museum 

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