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(New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

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noa

New-Zealand not-comparable

(New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

Japanese Meaning

（ニュージーランドのマオリ文化において）神聖ではなく、タブーとされるものとは区別して扱われる（俗的）な状態

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After the ritual, the noa food was shared with the whole community.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

儀式の後、その神聖ではない食べ物が地域の人々と分け合われた。

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(New Zealand, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is taboo.

The power of the spoken word has meant that some dangerous things are not mentioned by their "real" names, but by noa terms, like gullfot (literally "golden foot") for "wolf", or tallbjörn (literally "pine bear"), granoxe (literally: "fir ox"), trädräv (literally: "tree fox") or granälg (literally: "fir elk") for "squirrel".

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