The interpretive lens commonly employed in the study of the Hiaki that sees their religious expression as Roman Catholic, or as a native version of Roman Catholicism, is too ethnocentric to be useful. It assumes that before the coming of Europeans, the Hiaki had no intrinsic symbolic and ritual life of lasting value, and they found one only through the introduction of Christianity. Looking anew at the Hiaki celebration of Waehma, which is the conclusion of the Hiaki ritual calendar that coincides with the Roman Catholic celebration of Easter, I argue that Hiaki religious expression remains thoroughly Hiaki. I look at the use of sacred space during Waehma, and ground my reinterpretation of Hiaki practice in the examination of the unique and prominent place that many sacred Hiaki symbols and figures have throughout the ritual of Waehma that are clearly not part of the narratives of the Passion of Christ that the Jesuits introduced.

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在Hiaki仪式知识中发现韧性：Waehma的解读

在Hiaki的研究中通常使用的解释镜头将其宗教表达视为罗马天主教或罗马天主教的本土版本，它的种族中心性实在太有用了。它假设在欧洲人到来之前，希亚基族人没有持久的内在象征和仪式生活，而他们只有通过引入基督教才能找到其中一种。重新看一下Waehma的Hiaki庆祝活动，这是Hiaki仪式日历与罗马天主教庆祝复活节相吻合的结论，我认为Hiaki的宗教表达方式仍然完全是Hiaki。我看一下Waehma期间神圣空间的使用，