FOOTNOTES
[2] R. Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, Second Edition (London, 1870), p. 168. Compare J. Dumont d'Urville, Voyage autour du Monde et à la recherche de la Pérouse, Histoire du Voyage (Paris, 1832-1833), ii. 530.
[3] R. Taylor, op. cit. p. 169.
INDEX
Abortions, spirits of, dreaded, [49 n.1]
Adam, the Hawaiian, [393]
Adoption among the Marquesans, [339]
Aesculapius, the Hawaiian, [398]
Afiatouca, burial-place, [102], [103]
Agriculture of Maoris, [8 sq.];
of the Tongans, [59 sq.];
Samoan, [164 sqq.];
of the Hervey Islanders, [221 sq.];
of the Society Islanders, [249];
of the Hawaiians, [378 sq.]
Air, gods of the, [277]
Aitu, Samoan gods embodied in visible objects, animals, birds, etc., [182], [201], [207]
Akaanga, a god, spreads a net to catch ghosts, [242], [244]
Akea (Wakea), king of the nether world, [427], [428], [430]
Akua, god, in the Hawaiian dialect, equivalent to atua, [392], [398]
Akuas, spirits, [429]
Alai Valoo, a Tongan god, [74]
Alo Alo, a Tongan god, [71 sq.]
Altars in the Society Islands, [291]
Amable, Father, Catholic missionary, [367]
Ambler, English sailor, [84]
Amusements of the Marquesans, [339 sqq.]
Ancestors worshipped by Maoris, [32 sqq.];
skulls of, brought out at marriages, [288], [311]
Ancestral spirits watch over the living, [33];
do not follow their kinsfolk among strangers, [34];
cause disease, [49];
worshipped by Society Islanders, [300], [315];
guardians of newly wedded pairs, [311]
Angas, G. F., [48 n.1]
Animals, gods in form of, [66], [92 sqq.], [182 sqq.];
deified spirits of men resident in, [227 sq.];
worshipped in Hawaii, [401 sqq.]
Anointing a king of Samoa, [177]
Anuanu, vale of, [376 n.2]
Ao, titles of chiefs in Samoa, [172 sq.]
Apolima, Samoan island, [149], [151]
Apparitions dreaded, [205], [217]
Araia, [241], [242]
Aremauku, starting-place for spirit-land, [239]
Areois, Society of the, [259 sqq.]
Arii taboo, sacred chiefs, [387]
Ariki, sacred chief, [41];
king, [224]
Astronomy of priests, [293]
Atua, the Polynesian word for god or spirit, [35], [36], [37], [41], [42], [44], [46], [64 n.3], [89], [277], [322], [323], [348], [349].
Compare [akua], [eatooa], [etua]
Atuas, consecrated feathers called, [291];
inspired priests called, [294];
great national gods, distinguished from oramatuas tiis, the spirits of dead relatives, [324]
Auraka, a burial cavern, [233], [237], [238], [241]
Avaiki, subterranean region, home of the dead, [238], [239], [241], [243], [244]
Axes or adzes of stone, [61], [180], [233], [251], [335], [382]
Ba-ila, their licence at funerals, [425]
Baessler, A., [221 n.1], [279 n.1], [285], [286], [374]
Baganda, superstition as to twins among the, [270 sq.]
Baldness as penalty of impiety, [95];
the penalty of breach of taboo, [209 sq.]
Baluba, of the Congo, customs as to twins among the, [273]
Banishment of chiefs in Samoa, [176]
Banqueting-halls of the Marquesans, [343 sq.]
Baptism among the Maoris, [16]
Bark-cloth, manufacture of, [61], [168], [222], [251 sq.], [334], [381];
not made in time of mourning, [234 sq.]
Baronga, of S.E. Africa, their superstitions concerning twins, [268 sq.]
Barundi, of E. Africa, customs as to twins among the, [272 sq.]
Bastian, Adolf, on sun-worship, [131 n.]
Bathing after burial, [21];
of king at installation, [255 n.1];
after contact with a corpse, [313]
Bats, goddess incarnate in, [185];
local deity, [196]
Bay of Plenty, [23]
Bennett, F. D., [332 sq.], [359], [360], [372]
Best, Elsdon, [6 n.], [33], [35]
Birds, gods incarnate in, [187 sq.];
sacred, [228];
small land birds formerly oracular, [228];
gods in the form of, [277], [294];
worshipped in Hawaii, [402]
Birth, a man's god determined at, [200 sq.], [223];
ceremonies after a, [288]
Blackened faces in mourning, [231], [235]
Blood of chief sacred, [45 sq.];
human, acceptable offering to deity, [188];
offered to the dead, [209];
of relatives offered to bride at marriage, [289];
of bride's mother offered to bridegroom, [289];
of mourners offered to the dead, [303], [304], [311]
Bolotoo (Boolotoo, Bulotu), fabulous island, residence of Tongan gods and of noble dead, [65], [66], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89 sq.], [92], [93], [98], [135]
Bones of Captain Cook worshipped, [396]
Bones of dead dug up, [21];
painted red, [21];
concealed, [21];
profaned, [21];
festival at removal of, [22];
burned, [23];
of sacrificial victims not broken, [291];
of famous men carried off by enemies, [311];
thrown into volcano, [400];
carried about by relatives, [419 sq.];
hidden to prevent profanation, [420]
Bones of dead chiefs buried in temples (morais), [311];
hidden in caves, [312], [420]
Boolotoo Katoa, a Tongan god, [94]
Borabora, one of the Society Islands, [246], [281], [317]
Bows and arrows, unknown to Maoris, [10];
used by the Society Islanders as an amusement, [252 sq.];
unknown to the Marquesans, [335];
found among the Hawaiians, [383]
Boxing-matches in mourning, [211]
Branch plucked from sacred trees, [255 n.1]
Bread-fruit the staple food of the Society Islanders, [249];
of the Rarotongans, [222];
and of the Marquesans, [333], [334]
Breath of chief sacred, [45]
Brenchley, J. L., [124], [125 n.1]
Brown, Dr. George, [56], [161], [173 n.1], [201], [204], [206 n.1], [212], [213], [214], [216 n.2], [218]
Buffoonery in mourning for the dead, [211]
Burial, Maori modes of, [20 sq.];
in house, [20], [27];
on a stage, [20], [21];
on a tree, [20 sq.];
secret, [21];
and mourning, rites of, in Tonga, [132 sqq.];
by night, [419]
Burial customs in Samoa, [209 sqq.];
in the Hervey Islands, [231 sqq.];
in the Society Islands, [308 sqq.];
in the Marquesas, [356 sqq.];
in the Hawaiian Islands, [418 sqq.]
Burial ground dreaded, [27]
Burial places (morais) of the Marquesans, [357 sq.]
Burying the sins of the dead, [305]
Busoga, superstition as to twins in, [270]
Cabri, J. Baptiste, [371]
Cain, the Hawaiian, [393]
Campbell, A., [385], [412 n.1], [415], [419], [423]
Cannibalism, [26], [62], [158 sq.];
in the Hervey Islands, [221]
Canoe-shaped coffins, [20], [353], [356], [363]
Canoes, Maori, [9];
Tongan, [59];
Marquesan, [337];
provided for the dead to enable them to reach the spirit land, [364 sqq.]
Caterpillars, servants of owl-god, [188]
Caves, bones or bodies of dead deposited in, [22], [232], [233], [237], [312], [320 sq.], [357], [418]
Centipedes, family god in, [188 sq.];
worshipped in Mangaia, [228]
Ceremonies, magical, of Maoris, [13 sq.];
observed at death, [19 sqq.];
to facilitate passage of soul to other world, [24 sqq.], [29];
magical, of Tongans, [67 sq.];
observed for unburied dead, [205 sq.];
of mourning in the Hervey Islands, [234 sqq.];
at the inauguration of a king, [254 sq.], [255 n.1];
over dead Areoi, [261];
after childbirth, [288];
at marriage, [288 sq.];
for the protection of the living against ghosts, [305 sqq.]
See [Rites]
Ceremony of anointing a king of Samoa, [177];
performed by parents of twins to fertilise plantains, [271]
Chiefs descended from the gods, [29];
their souls immortal, [29];
tabooed, [41 sqq.];
physical superiority of, [58 sq.], [377 sq.];
Samoan, [171 sqq.];
deified, [204];
embalmed, [205];
in the Marquesas, [344];
in Hawaii, [384 sq.]
Chiefs' language in Samoa, [173 sqq.]
Chieftainship hereditary in Samoa, [176]
Children sacrificed, [75 sq.], [81 sq.]
Christianity in Tonga Islands, [60]
Circumcision, in the Tonga Islands, [81];
in the Hervey Islands, [223 sq.];
invented by god Rongo, [224]
Civil lords and sacred kings in Mangaia, [224 sq.]
Clans, gods of, in animals or other natural objects, [94], [95 sq.]
Clavel, Dr., [338], [374]
Cockles, god in, [183]; prayers to cockle-god, [188]
Coco-nuts, god in, [183]; offered to the dead, [233]
Coffins shaped like canoes, [20], [353], [356], [363]
Collocot, E. E. V., [65 n.2], [93], [94], [96], [97], [98 n.1], [267 n.2]
Comedies acted in mourning, [236]
Commoners, the question of their souls, [66], [85]
Communistic system in Samoa, [170 sq.]
Confession of sins, [189]
Cook, Captain James, [1], [9], [53], [55], [57], [59], [60], [61 n.2], [63], [81], [86], [100], [102], [103], [104], [105], [111 n.], [117], [123], [128], [129], [132], [246], [248], [249], [251], [257], [258 n.5], [262], [275], [277 n.2] and [4], [279], [280], [282], [283], [293], [297], [304], [310], [314 n.3], [315], [321], [328], [331], [371], [375], [379], [382], [383], [391], [395 sq.], [406], [407], [408]
Cook or Hervey Islands, [219 sq.]
Cooking in ovens of hot stones, [222], [379]
Coral reefs, their formation, [55 sq.]
Corpses, sent adrift on the sea or exposed on stages, [210];
broken in pieces, [362];
flayed, [367 sq.]
Courage seated in liver, [85]
Cousin marriage, [223]
Creation, Hawaiian tradition of the, [393]
Cremation among the Maoris, [23]
Crickets, omens from, [231]
Crimes, Tongan ideas about, [67]
Crook, William P., first missionary to the Marquesas, [328], [349], [361], [372]
Cruise, R. A., [31 n.2]
Curse of Manaia, [12]
Curses, Maori, [15];
Tongan, [67];
of sisters specially dreaded, [207]
Customs observed at the birth of twins, [268 sqq.]
See [Burial customs], [Ceremonies], [Rites]
Cuttings in mourning for the dead, [19], [208 sq.], [231], [302], [309], [311], [353];
in Tonga, [133 sqq.];
intention of the, [145 sq.]
Cuttle-fish, household god in, [184];
omens from, [190];
temple of, [195];
myth of the, [202 sq.];
a god in Mangaia,228;
myth of Maui and the, [275]
Dances at the birth of twins, [270 sqq.];
funeral, [139], [353 sq.];
of widow, [353], [354]
Dancing among the Marquesans, [340 sq.]
Dancing-places of the Marquesans, [340 sq.]
Danger Island, [230]
Darwin, Charles, on coral reefs, [55]
De Sainson, [112]
D'Urville, J. Dumont, [11], [58], [110], [123], [357 n.3], [359 n.3], [373]
Dead, disposal of the bodies of the (Maori), [20 sqq.];
buried in sitting posture, [20];
spirits of, appear in dreams, [31], [91 sq.];
spirits of the dead become gods, [31];
taboo entailed by contact with the, [39],137 sq.;
buried in morais, [117 sqq.], [282 sqq.], [311];
worship of the, in Samoa, [204 sq.];
blood offered to the, [209];
buried with head to the east, [210];
buried with the head to the rising sun, [232];
songs sung in honour of the, [236];
buried in sitting posture, [262];
images of spirits of the, [287 sq.], [313 sq.], [324 sq.];
blood of mourners offered to the, [303], [304], [311];
fear of the spirits of the, [304 sq.];
disposal of the, in the Society Islands, [308 sqq.];
souls of the, in images, [313 sq.];
worship of the, in the Society Islands, [322 sqq.];
assimilated to deities, [327];
disposal of the, among the Marquesans, [356 sqq.];
in the Hawaiian Islands, [418 sqq.];
evocation of the, [370 sq.];
buried in crouching posture, [418].
See [Ghosts]
Dead men deified, [276]
Death, Maori notion as to the cause of, [16];
stories as to the origin of, [16 sqq.], [392];
Maori goddess of, [18];
fate of the soul after, [24 sqq.], [85 sqq.], [213 sqq.], [238 sqq.], [313 sqq.], [363 sqq.], [427 sqq.];
the second, [29];
theories of the Society Islanders concerning, [299 sqq.];
Marquesan contempt for, [352 sq.];
Hawaiian beliefs and customs concerning,417 sqq.
Deaths caused by the anger of the gods or by sorcery, [229];
traced to the agency of gods or sorcerers, [405]
Decadence of magic, [68]
Deification of ancestors, [33], [35];
of kings in their lifetime, [255];
of dead men, [276];
of men after death, [351 sq.], [397];
of animals, [402]
Deified kings, priests, and warriors, [227]
Deified men, [276], [349];
the spirits of,resident in animals, [228]
Deified spirits of chiefs, [204]
Deities, primaeval, personifications of nature, [32], [34]
Deity, Maori conception of, [35 sq.]
Democratic spirit of Samoans, [171], [175]
Desgraz, C., [118], [358], [373]
Despotism in Hawaii, [63]
Dieffenbach, E., [6 n.2], [8 n.], [48 n.1]
Diet of the Samoans, [164 sq.];
of the Hervey Islanders, [222];
of the Society Islanders, [249];
of the Marquesans, [333 sq.];
of the Hawaiians, [378 sq.]
Dirges in the Hervey Islands, [235 sq.]
Disease, caused by souls of ancestors, [49];
and death ascribed to agency of gods, spirits, or ghosts, [206 sq.], [217];
theories of the Society Islanders concerning, [299 sqq.];
of the Marquesans concerning, [325].
See [Sickness]
Disorders, internal, supposed to be caused by entrance of a god into the patient, [351]
District gods, [182], [185]
Divination, in Samoa, [190 sq.];
to detect thieves, [298], [406];
to ascertain the cause of death, [301]
Diviners consulted before battle, [397], [414];
Hawaiian, [404 sq.], [414], [417]
Division of labour among the Samoans, [166 sqq.]
Dogs, sacred, [94];
omens from, [190];
eaten, [379];
sacrificed, [405], [426]
Doobludha, land of dead, [86]
Dramatic performances of the Areois, [259 sq.], [263], [266 n.4]
Dreamers held in repute, [320]
Dreams, Maori theories of, [12];
souls of the dead appear in, [31], [91 sq.];
Samoan theory of, [205];
ideas of the Hervey Islanders concerning, [229];
ideas of the Society Islanders concerning, [297 sq.];
souls of the dead communicate with the living in, [320], [429];
Marquesan ideas about, [352];
revelations to priests in, [405], [429];
Hawaiian ideas about, [417]
Drums, special, beaten after the birth of twins, [271];
accompanying dances, [342], [354]
Du Petit-Thouars, [373]
Duke of York Island, [212]
Earth cleft with axes, as a mourning rite, [235 sq.];
fished up from the sea by Maui, [275]
Earthquakes, Tongan theory of, [72];
caused by Maui, [275]
Eatooas, gods, spirits of the dead, [277 n.4], [300], [322], [391], [392], [402].
See [Atua]
Eclipses, superstitions as to, [287]
Eel-god, [227]
Eels sacred, [95], [182], [184], [185]
Eimeo or Moörea, one of the Society Islands, [246], [266]
Ella, S., [206 n.1], [212]
Ellis, William, [117], [118 n.1], [247], [249], [256 sq.], [262], [265 n.], [267 n.2], [276], [277], [284], [286 n.5], [290 n.3], [292], [295], [298 n.2], [308 n.1], [311], [314 n.1], [315], [319], [323], [327], [401], [409], [410], [411], [419], [424], [426], [430], [431]
Embalmment of the dead, [117], [205];
in Samoa, [210], [213];
in the Society Islands, [309], [310 sqq.];
in the Marquesas, [356 sq.];
in Hawaii, [418]
Erskine, J. E., [114]
Ethical influence of the Tongan religion, [146 sq.]
Etua, a god, [348].
Compare [Atua]
Eua, one of Tonga Islands, [52], [123]
Euhemerism, [69]
Eve, the Hawaiian, [393]
Evocation of the dead, [370 sq.]
Exogamy, Samoan religious system independent of, [201];
in the Hervey Islands, [223]
Exorcisers, [351]
Exorcism practised for the healing of the sick, [206 sq.], [417 sq.]
Expiation for sacrilege, [74 sqq.];
for eating sacred animal, [184], [185]
Eye, spirit or soul thought to reside in, [42], [417];
of human victim presented to king, [292]
Fafa, subterranean abode of the dead, [215]
Fakaofo or Bowditch Island, [394]
Family gods embodied in visible objects, [182 sqq.];
analogous to totems, [200]
Fan or Fang, of West Africa, their superstition about a twin, [269]
Farmer, Sarah S., [57 n.1], [61 n.], [92], [97], [111 n.]
Fasting after a death, [210], [355]
Fate of the soul after death, [213 sqq.], [238 sqq.], [313 sqq.], [363 sqq.], [427 sq.].
Fear of the dead, its humanising influence, [300];
of ghosts, [369 sq.], [419].
See [Ghosts]
Feast of Calabashes, [354]
Feasts, funeral, [144], [355], [362 sq.], [366];
annual, in honour of the gods, [187 sq.]
See [Festivals]
Feathers, sacred red, [254];
gods conjured into, [265];
placed in images of the gods, [290 sq.];
called gods, [291]
Female line, nobility traced in, [75]
Ferry-boat for souls of dead, [26]
Fertilising virtue attributed to twins, [269 sqq.]
Festival, great annual, [289];
called "the ripening of the year," 326 sq.
Festivals, of the Samoans, [188];
of the Marquesans, [341 sq.];
Hawaiian, [414 sqq.]
See [Feasts]
Fiatooka, place of burial and of worship, [103], [104], [105], [109], [116], [120], [132], [133]
Fijian influence in Tonga, [59]
Fingers mutilated in mourning, [19];
sacrificed, [80 sq.]
Finow, king of Tonga, [79], [80], [81], [82], [91], [92], [103], [105], [120], [121], [135], [136], [137], [139], [140];
obsequies of, [135 sqq.]
Finow the Second, king of Fiji, [135]
Fire, Polynesian knowledge of, [56 sq.];
kindled by friction of wood, [181];
robbed by Ti'iti'i from Mafuie, [203];
kept up in house after a death, [209], [212];
first brought to men by Maui, [226], [239];
hidden in wood by Mauike, [238];
stick and groove method of kindling, invented by Maui, [275], [335];
stolen by Maui, [350];
first given to men by Maui, [396]
Fires not kindled near house of death, [355];
extinguished during periods of strict taboo, [389]
First-born sons, sacrifice of, [89]
First-fruits, offerings of, in Tonga, [122];
in the Society Islands, [257];
of taro presented to eel-god, [188]
Fish, sacrifices of, [257], [291];
human victims called fish, [292];
worshipped, [402];
offered to shark god, [402]
Fish hooks made out of bones of dead, [21], [23], [311 sq.]
Fishing, modes of, [252], [337], [379]
Flax cultivated by Maoris, [9]
Flaying the dead, custom of, [367 sq.]
Flood, tradition of a great, [393], [394]
Flying-foxes, gods in, [96];
incarnations of war-god, omens from, [190]
Fono, representative assembly, parliament, [159], [179]
Food buried with the dead, [24], [232];
not to be touched by tabooed person with his hands, [38], [44], [45], [137], [138], [209], [312];
not eaten in a house so long as a corpse is in it, [209];
offered at tomb, [362]
Footprints in magic, [15]
Forbes, Dr. Charles, [12]
Forster, George, [262], [283], [287 n.], [397], [314], [331]
Forster, J. R., [117 n.1], [278 n.1], [287 n.], [314], [323 n.1]
Foundation sacrifices, [292]
Fowls bred and eaten, [379]
Freycinet, L. de, [423], [427]
Friendly Islands. See [Tonga]
Funeral dances, [139], [353 sq.];
feasts, [144], [355], [362 sq.], [366]
Funeral games in Tonga, [140], [144];
in the Hervey Islands, [235 sq.]
Funeral rites in the Hervey Islands, [231 sqq.]
Futtafaihe or Fatafehi, family name of the Tuitongas, [108], [109]
Fytoca, grave, burial-place, [67], [82], [102], [103], [137], [139], [141]
G——, Father Mathias, [373]
Games, funeral, in honour of the dead, [140], [144], [235];
athletic, at religious festivals, [188]
Garment, evil magic wrought through, [67]
Gerland, G., [266 n.4]
Ghost personated by priest or kinsman, [306 sqq.]
Ghosts, fear of, [27], [31], [304 sq.], [320 sq.], [369 sq.], [419 sq.];
their passage to nether world, [27 sq.];
live on sweet potatoes, [30];
slaying the, [234];
journeying with the sun, [239 sqq.];
caught in nets, [242], [244];
eaten by Miru, [242];
driven away by force of arms, [355];
food offered to, [355], [356]
Gill, W. W., [221 n.1], [225 n.1], [227], [228 n.1], [237], [238]
Girdle, sacred, of kings, [254]
God, patron, determined at birth, [200 sq.], [223]
"God-boxes," inspired priests, [228 sq.]
Godless, the Samoans called, [181 sq.]
Gods, chiefs and priests descended from the, [29];
confused with spirits of the dead, [31];
the great Polynesian, [35 n.];
of the Maoris, [36 sq.];
of the Tongans, [64 sqq.];
souls of dead men as, [64 sq.], [66], [69], [70], [84], [91];
men descended from, [66];
omens sent by, [67];
in form of animals, [66], [92 sqq.], [182 sqq.];
the primary or non-human, of Tonga, [68 sqq.];
national and tribal, of Tonga, [93 sq.];
temples of, in Tonga, [73 sqq.], [99 sqq.];
worship of, [79 sqq.];
annual feasts in honour of, [187 sq.];
tame, [191];
vegetable, [192];
totemic, [202];
high gods, [202 sqq.];
the life of the, [238];
punished, [257];
born of Night (Po), [258], [277];
of the sea, [276 sq.];
of the air, [277];
worship of the gods in the Society Islands, [277 sqq.];
the causes of disease and death, [299], [351];
Hawaiian, two classes of, [397]
Government, monarchical and aristocratic, of the Tongans, [62 sq.];
democratic, of Samoans, [171 sqq.];
of the Society Islands, [253];
in the Marquesas, [344 sq.];
in the Hawaiian Islands, [383 sq.]
Grandfather, soul of, reborn in grandchild, [368 sq.]
Grange, Jérôme, [60 n.5], [113 sq.]
Grasshoppers, souls of dead children in, [318]
Graves, sacred, [99];
in relation to temples, [99 sqq.];
of Tongan kings, [103], [105];
prayers at, [121], [217];
of great chiefs religiously revered, [120];
enclosed with stones, [211];
in Society Islands, [309];
in Hawaii, [418].
See [Tombs]
Guardian deity, how obtained, [398]
Gudgeon, W. E., [41], [42 n.1], [48 n.1]
Guillemard, F. H. H., [132]
Haamonga, megalithic monument in Tonga, [125], [126]
Haapai (Haabai), one of the Tonga Islands, [52], [95], [126]
Haddon, A. C., [6 n.2]
Hahunga, Maori festival, [22]
Hair cut in mourning, [19], [303 sq.], [420]sq.;
ceremonies at cutting the, [44 sq.];
used in evil magic, [300], [325], [405];
offered by mourners to the dead, [303], [304];
sacrificed to volcano, [400]
Hale, Horatio, [6 n.2], [63], [214]
Hands tabooed, [38], [45], [137], [138], [209], [312], [404]
Happahs (Happas), a tribe of Marquesans, [364], [365]
Harepo, sacred recorder, [296], [298]
Harris, J. Rendel, [267 n.1]
Havaiki, subterranean region of the dead, [363]. Compare [Avaiki]
Hawaii, [375], [376], [378], [394], [400], [406], [409], [410], [411], [413], [426], [429]
Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, [375 sqq.]
Hawaiians or Sandwich Islanders, [377 sqq.]
Hawaiki, original home of Maoris, [5 sq.], [29], [155]
Head, sanctity of the, [44], [212], [388]
Heads of dead dried and preserved, [23 sq.];
of chiefs cut off and buried separately, [212];
of children moulded, [224];
of pigs attached to biers, [355];
of slain enemies kept as trophies, [362]
Heart the special seat of the soul, [85]
Heaven, ascent of souls to, [24 sqq.], [29]
"Heavenly family," gods incarnate in animals, [228]
Hebrew prophets, Renan on the, [147]
Heiau, temple, [409], [410], [411], [412 n.1], [418]
Herero, of S.W. Africa, customs as to twins among the, [273 sq.]
Herons sacred, [95];
omens from, [190];
superstition about, [277 n.2]
Hervey, Philip, [123], [125 n.1], [127]
Hervey or Cook Islands, [219 sq.]
Hervey Islanders, [220 sqq.]
Heva, ceremony observed after a death, [306]
Higgolayo, god of the dead, [86]
Hikuleo, god of the dead, [88 sq.], [90]
Hina (O-Heena), a goddess, perhaps of the moon, [266], [267], [287]
Hine-nui-te-po, the Maori goddess of death, [17 sq.]
Hiro, god of thieves, [326]
Hivaoa (Dominica), one of the Marquesas Islands, [328], [337], [364]
Hogs, sacrificed, [79];
to volcano, [399].
See [Pigs]
Holiness and uncleanness blent in taboo, [173]
Honolulu, [376 n.2]
Hos of Togo, customs as to twins among the, [271 sq.]
Hotooas (atuas), gods, [64]
Houmis, a tribe of Marquesans, [347]
House, dead buried in, [20], [27], [418];
dying people removed from the, [39];
abandoned after a death, [356]
Houses, Maori, [8];
Samoan, [163 sq.];
in the Society Islands, [250];
of the Marquesans, [335 sqq.];
of the Hawaiians, [380 sq.]
Huahine, one of the Society Islands, [117], [246], [280], [283], [284], [289], [293], [326]
Human sacrifices at burials, [24];
to the sun, tradition of, [158];
not offered by Samoans, [158];
at making king's girdle, [254];
offered to Oro, [258 sq.];
in the Society Islands, [291 sq.];
offered to living men, [349 sq.];
at deification of men, [351 sq.];
at the death of chiefs and priests, [365 sqq.], [421 sq.];
to sharks, [402 sq.];
in Hawaii, [413 sq.], [421 sq.], [425 sq.]
Hunchbacks thought to be favourites of spirits, [153]
Hurricanes in Samoa, [153 sq.]
Idols, Hawaiian, [412 sq.] See [Images]
Ifi tree, [74], [121], [133], [137]
Image of basket-work, [275 sq.];
wooden, of deified man, [398]
Images of the gods, [290], [391 sq.];
in which the souls of the dead were supposed to lodge, [287 sq.], [313 sq.], [324 sq.];
carried to battle, [397];
spirits conjured into, [398];
of the gods, Hawaiian, [411 sqq.]
Immortality, belief in, its effect on the Maoris, [51];
restricted to chiefs and their ministers, [85];
of the human soul, [313]. See [Soul]
Incantations, Maori, [13 sqq.];
of sorcerers, [325];
Hawaiian, [405], [417]
Incarnation of gods in animals, [182 sqq.]
Inconsistency of savage thought, [84], [90 sq.]
Indonesians, [3]
Infanticide, in Polynesia, [157];
among the Areois, [263]
Infants, souls of dead, cause disease, [49], [299]
Inspiration by drinking kava, [75], [77 sqq.];
by souls of dead, [91];
of Samoan priests, [194];
of priests, in the Society Islands, [293 sqq.];
of men by deities, [351]
Inspired men, [350 sqq.]
Iron in Tonga, [61 n.2]
Iron tools among the Hawaiians, [382]
Irrigation practised by Maoris, [9];
artificial, in Hawaii, [378 sq.]
Jarves, J. J., [383 n.2], [425]
Jaw-bones of human victims hung in temple, [258]
Jumping-off stone of souls of the dead, [214], [215].
See [Leaping-off place]
Jupiter, the planet, emblem of deified chiefs, [204];
the shrine of a god, [228]
Justice, administration of, in Samoa, [159 sq.]
Kahuna, priest, [417]
Kaili. See [Tairi]
Kamehameha (Tamehameha), king of Hawaii, [384], [388], [389], [400], [409], [415], [420], [422], [425], [427], [430], [431]
Kanaloa, a great Hawaiian deity, [392], [393], [394], [395]
Kane, a great Hawaiian deity, [392], [393], [394], [395], [398]
Kaonohiokala, "eye-ball of the sun," a Hawaiian god, [431]
Kapihe, a priest, [430], [431]
Kapu, taboo, in Hawaiian dialect, [387]
Karakakooa Bay in Hawaii, [391]
Karakias, prayers or spells (Maori), [32], [39]
Kauai, one of the Sandwich Islands, [375]
Kava as source of inspiration, [75], [78], [229];
offered to the gods, [79], [187];
offered to whales, [93];
offered at graves, [121], [205];
drunk by the Marquesans, [334];
by the Hawaiians, [380]
Keolakuhonua, the first woman, [393]
Kilauea, volcano in Hawaii, [375], [399], [401]
King, Captain, [378], [379], [385 sq.], [391], [402], [408], [410]
King, of Samoa, [176 sq.];
customs observed on the death of a king in Hawaii, [420 sqq.]
"King of Fiji," a Samoan family god, [192]
Kingfisher sacred, [93];
superstition about, [277 n.2]
Kingfishers, incarnations of war-god, omens from, [190];
gods of families, villages, or districts, embodied in, [193];
consulted oracularly, [196]
Kings, two, in Tonga, one civil, the other religious, [62 sq.];
the priests or mouthpieces of a god, [224];
sacred, in the Hervey Islands, [224 sq.];
primary and secondary, in Mangaia, [225];
as gods or descended from gods in the Society Islands, [253 sq.];
as high-priests, [253], [255];
in Hawaii, [383 sq.]
Kingship, double, [63]
Kitchen, dying chief carried into the, [82]
Koreamoku, a deified man, [398]
Kotzebue, O. von, [385 n.4], [388 sq.], [416]
Kpelle, of Liberia, their superstitions about twins, [269], [274]
Krusenstern, A. J. von, [346], [348], [362], [371], [372]
Ku, a great Hawaiian deity, [392], [393]
Kuahairo, a Hawaiian god, [431]
Kumuhonua, the first man, [393]
La Pérouse, [149]
Labillardière, [81]
Langsdorff, G. H. von, [118], [341], [351 n.2], [371], [372]
Language, Polynesian, [2];
special form of, used in speaking of chiefs, [173 sqq.]
Leaping-off place for souls of dead, [27], [241].
See [Jumping-off stone]
Leeward Islands, [246], [319]
Lifuka (Lefooga), one of the Tonga Islands, [52], [73], [109]
Lightning, omens from, [191]
Lipolipo, king of Hawaii, [389 sq.], [427]
Lisiansky, U., [338], [366 sq.], [368 sq.], [371], [372], [411], [412], [414], [421], [422], [423]
Litany chanted after a death, [355]
Liturgies, in the Society Islands, [296]
Liturgy, ancient Hawaiian, [394]
Liver, the seat of courage, [85];
a disease of, attributed to breach of taboo, [76 sq.];
of pig a god, [98]
Lizard, the tempter in the form of a, [393]
Lizards feared as causes of disease, [50];
gods in, [66], [92], [94], [96], [182], [227], [228];
omens from, [190]
Lono (Rono), a great Hawaiian deity, the equivalent of Rongo, [392], [393], [395];
Captain Cook identified with, [396]
Lord of Mangaia, [224]
Lucifer, the Hawaiian, [393]
Macahity, a Hawaiian festival, [414 sqq.]
Mafanga, burial-place of chiefs in Tongataboo, [120], [121]
Mafuie, god of earthquakes, [203]
Magic, among the Maoris, [13 sqq.];
among the Tongans, [68];
black, not practised in Samoa, [161];
in the Society Islands, [300], [325 sq.];
in Hawaii, [405] sq.
See [Sorcerers]
Magicians (Maori), [13 sqq.]
Mahoike, god of the infernal regions, original possessor of fire, [350]
Mahoui, a god, apparently identical with Maui, [266 n.4], [286 n.5]
Maitea, one of the Society Islands, [246]
Malays, how related to the Polynesians, [2 sqq.]
Man, the creation of, [393]
Mana, [42]
Manaia, [13], [23]
Mangaia, one of the Hervey Islands, [219], [220], [221], [222], [224], [225], [228], [232], [233], [237], [238], [239], [240], [244]
Manona, Samoan island, [149]
Manua, group of Samoan islands, [149], [155], [158], [162], [215]
Maoris, [5 sqq.];
their culture, [8 sqq.];
beliefs concerning the souls of the living, [10 sqq.];
beliefs concerning the souls of the dead, [19 sqq.];
their notion as to the cause of death, [16];
their story of the origin of death, [16 sqq.];
mourning, [19 sq.];
disposal of the dead, [20 sqq.];
their conception of deity, [35 sq.];
taboo among the, [37 sqq.], [432]
Mapuhanui, a Marquesan god, [368]
Marae. See [Morai]
Marae, a sacred grove, [225 n.3], [240], [241]
Marai. See [Morai]
Marchand, Captain E., [358 n.6], [371]
Marcuse, A., [393]
Mariner, William, [62], [64], [67], [70], [71], [73], [74], [75], [76], [78 sq.], [80], [82], [83], [86], [90], [91], [92], [93], [97], [98 n.], [99], [102], [103], [110 n.1], [127], [135], [136], [138], [141], [142], [143]
Marquesan islanders, [331 sqq.]
Marquesas Islands, [328 sqq.];
morais (marais) in the, [116 sqq.]
Marriage rites, [288 sq.], [311]
Martin, John, [64]
Maruiwi, primitive inhabitants of New Zealand, [8]
Mask worn by an actor personifying a ghost, [306]
Masons in Tonga, [127]
Matabooles, minister of Tongan nobles, [65], [66], [74], [85], [76], [77], [79], [85], [87], [121], [136], [139]
Mateialona, Governor of Haapai, [126]
Mats, fine Samoan, [168 sq.];
Hawaiian, [381 sq.]
Maui, mythical Polynesian hero, [266 n.4];
his contest with the goddess of death, [16 sqq.];
said to have drawn up the Tongan Islands on a fish-hook, [72];
puts god Hikuleo in durance, [88];
said to have brought great stones from Uea, [125];
a kind of Polynesian Hercules, [126];
brought fire to men, [226], [239];
his exploits, [275], [287 n.], [396];
his image, [275 sq.];
steals fire from Mahoike, [350]
Maui one of the Sandwich Islands, [375], [429]
Maui Atalanga, mythical first owner of fire, [57]
Maui Kijikiji, the Polynesian Prometheus, [57]
Mauike, the fire-god, [226], [238], [239]
Mauna Kea, mountain in Hawaii, [376]
Mauna Loa, volcano in Hawaii, [375], [376]
Mausoleum of the kings of Hawaii, [426]
Medicine, the Hawaiian god of, [398]
Megalithic monuments of the Tooitongas, [119];
in the Pacific, Dr. Rivers's theory as to, [119];
of the Tongans, [123];
in Lefooga (Lifuka), [128 sq.];
their supposed relation to sun-worship, [266 n.4];
in the Marquesas, [360 sq.]
Megalithic tombs, [119], [123], [132]
Meinicke, C. E., [118 n.2]
Melanesian blood, admixture of, in the Hervey Islands, [221]
Melanesian type, [6];
population of New Zealand, [6 sq.]
Melanesian totemism, [218]
Melanesians, now related to Polynesians, [2 sq.];
magic among the, [161];
sham-fights at funerals among the, [212]
Melville, Hermann, [330], [332], [333], [338], [354], [357 n.3], [360 sq.], [361 sq.], [373]
Men deified in their lifetime, [349];
deified after death, [351 sq.], [397]
Metals unknown to the Polynesians, [61], [222], [250], [335]
Metempsychosis, theory that Melanesian totemism has been developed out of, [218]
Milu (Miru), king of the nether world, [427], [428], [429], [430].
See [Miru]
Milu (Miru), a rebel spirit, [392]
Minstrels, wandering, in the Marquesas, [342]
Miru, king of the nether world, [427];
goddess of hell or of the dead, [428 n.1];
the Hades of the Sandwich Islanders, [431].
See [Milu]
Miru, an infernal hag, devours ghosts, [242]
Moerenhout, J. A., [118], [263 n.2], [264 n.3], [266 n.4], [284], [286 n.5], [297], [308 n.1]
Monarchy, absolute, in Hawaii, [383]
Mooa, old capital of Tongataboo, [106],