Saganis and the War in New Zealand

Saganis quotes from a book on cannibalism and human sacrifice that ihave not been able to get my hands on. In mary, the war party was met outside the village by the priestesses who danced a waka tama,. The warriors were not allowed to mingle with the joyful people of the village until they had gone through the rite of wakahoa. Wakahoa allows them to re enter the common life of their people. But it also means to make them common, to bring them back down from the realm of the sacred.