He is told that the wise man has, by virtue of his very strong charms, seen the rival tohunga makutu, and that it will not be long before that evil man dies.
Leaving the horses and the stricken man behind them, away they fled, only too anxious to put as great a distance as they could between themselves and the awful tohunga (magician), who refused to be killed.
On the morning of the second day he reported himself, and informed me that the tohunga awaited me, but that, as nothing would induce the limb of Satan to land, I must go down to the lake, and he would discourse with me from his canoe.
Dieffenbach was present when an aged tohunga was giving a lesson to a neophyte.
But, first, the tohungacut off a portion of the flesh, and with certain incantations and mystic gestures, suspended it upon a tree or pole, as an offering to the gods.
The tohunga and his assistants passed within them to bury the dead, but only with much karakia and ceremony.
In the course of a couple of years or so after, when the tohungadeemed that decomposition was complete, a second series of ceremonies took place.
After a day or two of these ceremonies, the body was taken by the tohunga and his assistants within the sacred grove, or wahi tapu.
When defeated or threatened with its loss, the ariki or tohunga would hide the merè; and often the hiding-place would be unknown, since the chief might be killed before he could reveal it to his successor.
And the scalp had been taken from the head of Philpots to be used by the tohunga in divination to discover the event of the war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tohunga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
