All Polynesian Religion Roles

The religious specialist roles of Polynesian traditional religion, practiced across the many island societies of the Pacific before and alongside Christianization. The tohunga, the Maori term for an expert practitioner of a skill or art whether religious or otherwise, covers priest, healer, navigator and carver among the roles it names, and the same institution recurs under related names throughout the wider Polynesian cultural sphere from Hawaii to New Zealand.