vavaasipoana practice or celebrate the child-blessing rites

• • practice or celebrate the child-blessing rites
  • • culture

  • • Example 9184:
      

      a otei sa nata haana tea vaakao bona maa matapaku bona ve ae amaa matapaku vai tea maa vavaasipoana,

      the man does not know how to conduct these traditional practices and (also) the practices of the child-blessing rites,

      Source: Vos 01R(Vos) 206

    • Example 9185:
      

      Be kavara o taatate bona, eori repaa mee bona beiko kou tea vaaree tahii en tea maa hum vavaasipoana tea vuuaba teve komana.

      When this part of the ceremony is finished, they take the child to the Showing-the-Sea ceremony to the place where his clan celebrates the blessing ceremonies.

      Source: Kor 01E(Eno) 031-032

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• See also:
  • vaasipoana¹ bless a child; do the child-blessing ceremony with somebody