Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/King_Nga'ara> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 74 of
74
with 100 items per page.
- King_Nga'ara abstract "Nga‘ara (reigned from the death of his father, Kai Mako‘i ca. 1835 to his own death just before 1860) was the last great ‘ariki, or paramount chief, of Easter Island, and the last master of rongorongo, the Easter Island script.Before becoming king, Nga‘ara ran a hare rongorongo (rongorongo school) at ‘Anakena Bay. Generally fathers would teach their sons and any other boys who were interested, and Nga‘ara was the most famous teacher on the island. Boys would study three to five months to learn rongorongo. At the time he became ‘ariki, the real power on the island lay in the Birdman priests of ‘Orongo. One of the sacred responsibilities of the tuhunga tā (scribes and reciters of rongorongo) seems to have been the recitation or chanting of rongorongo tablets at ‘Orongo during the annual Birdman ceremonies. That quarter of the village was off limits to everyone else during the ceremonies. Nga‘ara sent students, but did not himself attend.Rongorongo was considered to contain mana (sacred power). For example, chanting a timo (vengeance) tablet could release supernatural powers to kill a murderer. A woman would carry a pure (fertility) tablet while the scribes chanted it to increase her fertility. Tablets were used to increase crops or a catch of fish. Katherine Routledge was told that one of Nga‘ara's tablets, called Kouhau ‘o te Ranga and thought to be Rongorongo text C, was one of a kind and had the power to "give conquest in war" and enslave the conquered. In order to take control of the island from the Birdman priests of ‘Orongo, Nga‘ara established an annual rongorongo festival at ‘Anakena. Rather than using the tablets for specific ends, it was a festival for the tablets themselves, and it became the most important assembly in pre-missionary times:The people were assembled at Anakena Bay once each year to hear all of the tablets read. The feast of the tablets was regarded as their most important fête day, and not even war was allowed to interfere with it.Hundreds attended these festivals. Heuheu staves were brought by all and stuck in the ground where the attendee stood. The tablets were recited from dawn to dusk, with a break for dinner. Nga‘ara presented the reciters with veri tapa cloths. Since the mana of the tablets went through him at this festival, Nga‘ara was able to assert spiritual primacy over the island. When Nga‘ara died, his son Kai Mako‘i ‘Iti (Kai Mako‘i Jr) took over the festival at ‘Anakena for three years, until he was captured in the great Peruvian slaving raid of 1862. Although the slaves were freed the next year, Kai Mako‘i did not survive to return.".
- King_Nga'ara activeYearsEndYear "1859".
- King_Nga'ara activeYearsStartYear "1835".
- King_Nga'ara deathDate "1859".
- King_Nga'ara deathYear "1859".
- King_Nga'ara thumbnail Pano_Anakena_beach.jpg?width=300.
- King_Nga'ara title "‘Ariki".
- King_Nga'ara wikiPageExternalLink p1?action=null.
- King_Nga'ara wikiPageExternalLink ?view=usa&ci=9780198237105.
- King_Nga'ara wikiPageID "19005809".
- King_Nga'ara wikiPageRevisionID "591242320".
- King_Nga'ara dateOfDeath "1859".
- King_Nga'ara deathDate "1859".
- King_Nga'ara father "Kai Mako‘i".
- King_Nga'ara hasPhotoCollection King_Nga'ara.
- King_Nga'ara name "Ngaara, King".
- King_Nga'ara name "Nga‘ara".
- King_Nga'ara nativeLang Rapa_Nui_language.
- King_Nga'ara offspring "Kai Mako‘i ‘Iti".
- King_Nga'ara predecessor "Kai Mako‘i".
- King_Nga'ara reign "ca 1835–1859".
- King_Nga'ara successor "Kai Mako‘i ‘Iti".
- King_Nga'ara title "‘Ariki".
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:1859_deaths.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:19th-century_monarchs.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:Easter_Island_people.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:History_of_Easter_Island.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:Oceanian_monarchs.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:Rapanui_people.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:Rongorongo.
- King_Nga'ara subject Category:Year_of_birth_unknown.
- King_Nga'ara type CausalAgent100007347.
- King_Nga'ara type Communicator109610660.
- King_Nga'ara type EasterIslandPeople.
- King_Nga'ara type HeadOfState110164747.
- King_Nga'ara type LivingThing100004258.
- King_Nga'ara type Negotiator110351874.
- King_Nga'ara type Object100002684.
- King_Nga'ara type OceanianMonarchs.
- King_Nga'ara type Organism100004475.
- King_Nga'ara type Person100007846.
- King_Nga'ara type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- King_Nga'ara type RapanuiPeople.
- King_Nga'ara type Representative110522035.
- King_Nga'ara type Ruler110541229.
- King_Nga'ara type Sovereign110628644.
- King_Nga'ara type Whole100003553.
- King_Nga'ara type YagoLegalActor.
- King_Nga'ara type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- King_Nga'ara type Agent.
- King_Nga'ara type Monarch.
- King_Nga'ara type Person.
- King_Nga'ara type Person.
- King_Nga'ara type Monarch_HeadOfState.
- King_Nga'ara type Q215627.
- King_Nga'ara type Q5.
- King_Nga'ara type Agent.
- King_Nga'ara type NaturalPerson.
- King_Nga'ara type Thing.
- King_Nga'ara type Person.
- King_Nga'ara comment "Nga‘ara (reigned from the death of his father, Kai Mako‘i ca. 1835 to his own death just before 1860) was the last great ‘ariki, or paramount chief, of Easter Island, and the last master of rongorongo, the Easter Island script.Before becoming king, Nga‘ara ran a hare rongorongo (rongorongo school) at ‘Anakena Bay. Generally fathers would teach their sons and any other boys who were interested, and Nga‘ara was the most famous teacher on the island.".
- King_Nga'ara label "King Nga'ara".
- King_Nga'ara sameAs m.04jg2yf.
- King_Nga'ara sameAs Q6411909.
- King_Nga'ara sameAs Q6411909.
- King_Nga'ara sameAs King_Nga'ara.
- King_Nga'ara wasDerivedFrom King_Nga'ara?oldid=591242320.
- King_Nga'ara depiction Pano_Anakena_beach.jpg.
- King_Nga'ara givenName "King".
- King_Nga'ara isPrimaryTopicOf King_Nga'ara.
- King_Nga'ara name "King Ngaara".
- King_Nga'ara name "Ngaara, King".
- King_Nga'ara name "Nga‘ara".
- King_Nga'ara surname "Ngaara".