[25] W. W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, pp. 10 sq. 19. Another god called Turanga, who was worshipped at Aumoana, was also supposed to be incarnate in white and black spotted lizards. See id., Life in the Southern Isles, p. 96.
[26] W. W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, pp. 29 sq.
[27] W. W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, pp. 79 sq.
[28] W. W. Gill, "Mangaia (Hervey Islands)," op. cit. p. 349.
[29] W. W. Gill, "Mangaia (Hervey Islands)," op. cit. p. 347. Yet in the same passage the writer affirms that "there is no trace in the Eastern Pacific of the doctrine of transmigration of human souls, although the spirits of the dead are fabled to have assumed, temporarily, and for a specific purpose, the form of an insect, bird, fish, or cloud."
[30] Id., Life in the Southern Isles, p. 289.
[31] Id., Life in the Southern Isles, pp. 96, 308, 309.
[32] Id., Life in the Southern Isles, p. 96.
[33] Id., Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, pp. 34 sq.
[34] Id., Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, p. 32.