Wairua is from the Maori Wairua — spirit, soul. A modern American baby name in the broader Maori-Polynesian heritage aesthetic. Wairua is one of the foundational Maori feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Maori Indigenous Polynesian heritage of foundational Aotearoa New Zealand. The foundational Maori wairua concept is central to foundational pan-Maori cosmological-philosophical heritage — foundational Te Ao Māori worldview + foundational wairua as eternal spiritual essence + foundational whakapapa genealogical-spiritual lineage + foundational Te Wheke (Octopus model of Māori health by foundational Rangimarie Rose Pere) where wairua is one of 8 dimensions of wellbeing. Foundational subject of foundational Māori cultural revival heritage post-1970s Te Reo Māori revitalization + foundational Waitangi Tribunal 1975 + foundational Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi 1840). Foundational Maori feminine name.
Featured throughout Maori heritage.
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Wairua reduces to nine.