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Air Tahiti Magazine 52
la renommee du marae taputapuatea sur l ile de raiatea etait si etendue qu il paraitrait meme que la plupart des peuples de polynesie orientale (iles de la societe, tuamotu, iles cook, voire nouvelle-zelande et hawaii) le consideraient comme le siege du pouvoir spirituel et temporel. the reputation of taputapuatea s marae, on the island of raiatea, reached so far that most people in eastern polynesia (society islands, tuamotu, cook islands, even new zealand and hawaii) considered it the seat of spiritual and temporal power. the roots of polynesian society too many of today s visitors walk by the marae without even noticing, yet until quite recent times what some people take for simple rock piles actually played a fundamental role in pre-european polynesian society, before the arrival of the first foreign settlers at the end of the 18th century. much more than a temple, the marae was the seat of all decisions, the true pillar of social, political and religious interaction in polynesia. par/by isabelle bertaux
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