[108], [111], [112]
Mooas, middle-class in Tonga, [66], [85]
Moomooe (Moomooi), king of Tonga, [83], [91], [108], [133], [141], [145]
Moon, family god in, [192];
tradition of sacrifice to the, [394];
festival of the new, [414]
Moon-goddess, [267], [287 n.]
Mo'ooi (Maui), Tongan god, [72]
Morai (marai, marae), burial-place, temple, [103], [116], [117], [118], [119];
dead buried in, [117 sqq.], [282 sqq.];
in the Society Islands, [278 sq.].
Morais, bones of dead chiefs buried in, [311];
burial-places, [357 sq.], [361 sq.];
mummies deposited in, [357];
in Hawaii, [391], [406 sqq.];
dead chiefs buried in, [407 sq.]
Morality reinforced by superstitious terrors, [83];
not influenced by religion, [318]
Mortality of souls of commoners, [66], [85]
Motoro, a great god in the Hervey Islands, [241]
Mourning for death of divine owl, [186 sq.]
Mourning customs of Maoris, [19 sq.];
in Tonga, [132 sqq.];
in Samoa, [208 sq.];
in the Hervey Islands, [231];
among the Society Islands, [301 sqq.];
of the Marquesans, [353 sqq.];
in Hawaii, [420 sqq.]
Mouth and nostrils of dying stopped to prevent the escape of the soul, [352]
Mueu, a female demon of death, [235]
Mukasa, great god of the Baganda, [270]
Mullets sacred, [95], [184]
Mummies kept in the house or deposited in a morai, [357]
Muru, a god, spreads a net to catch ghosts, [244]
Mythology of the Society Islanders, [257 sq.], [277];
of the Marquesans, [348 sqq.]
Nails, parings of, used in evil magic, [325], [405]
Names of relatives changed after a death, [233];
of kings sacred, [254];
new, given at admission to the Society of the Areois, [261];
exchange of, [339]
Namuka, one of the Tonga Islands, [52]
Nature, personifications of, [32], [34];
worship of, [93]
Necromancy among the Maoris, [30 sq.]
Negritoes, [3]
Net to catch ghosts, [242], [244]
New Zealand, the Maoris of, [5 sqq.];
Melanesian population of, [6 sq.]
Neyra, Alvaro Mendana de, [328]
Ngati-apa, a Maori tribe, [23]
Nicholas, J. L., [16 n.3]
Night, or the primaeval darkness (Po), [258], [276], [277], [298 n.1], [305], [315], [323], [393], [397], [427];
burials by, [419]
Nightmare caused by a ghost, [419]
Noa, common, [38], [39], [40];
general, as opposed to taboo, sacred, [388]
Noah, the Hawaiian, [393], [394]
Nobility traced in female line in Tonga, [75]
Nobles, souls of dead, as gods, [64], [66], [84], [91]
North Cape of New Zealand, place of departure for souls of the dead, [27], [28], [30]
Nukahiva, one of the Marquesas Islands, [328], [337], [350], [352], [360], [361], [364], [368], [371], [372]
Nuu, the Hawaiian Noah, [393], [394]
O-Heena, a goddess, [287 n.]
See [Hina]
O-rongo, in Mangaia, [225]
Oahu, one of the Sandwich Islands, [375], [376 n.2], [385], [395], [411], [429]
Obsequies of kings and chiefs in Tonga, [133 sqq.];
of the Tooitongas, [140 sqq.];
of Samoan chiefs, [211 sq.];
of chiefs, in the Society Islands, [303]
Octopus, god in, [95], [96], [183]
Offerings to gods, [79];
to Samoan deities, [187], [188], [189];
to priests, [195];
to the dead, [311];
of food at tombs, [362];
to volcanic goddess, [401].
See [Sacrifices]
Omens sent by gods, [67];
from sacred birds, animals, or fish, [189 sq.];
from sacrificial victims, clouds, and rainbow, [397], [414]
Opoa, metropolis of idolatry in the Society Islands, [255], [258], [259], [289]
Oracles delivered by priests, [295];
given by priests in the name of gods, [404]
Oramatuas or oromatuas, worshipful spirits of departed relatives, [277], [299], [323 sq.];
sacred feathers called, [291]
Origin of Samoan gods of families, villages, and districts, [200 sqq.]
Oro, war-god in the Society Islands, [255], [255 n.1], [258], [259], [261], [263], [265], [266], [289], [295], [315], [326]
Orono, head of a priestly order in Hawaii, [391]
Orotetefa, patron deity of the Areoi Society, [263], [265], [267]
Ovens, souls of dead in, [26 sq.];
of hot stones, [222], [379]
Owl god, festival of, [188];
kept tame, [191]
Owls sacred, [95], [182];
mourning for dead, [186 sq.];
omens from, [190]
Pantheon recruited by dead men, [98]
Papa, goddess of earth, [34 n.2];
wife of Vatea, [226]
Papatea, mythical island, [158]
Papo, Samoan war-god, [186]
Paradise of the Society Islanders, [319], [327]
Parliamentary form of government in Samoa, [179 sq.]
Pas, Maori forts, [8 n.3]
Pele, goddess of the volcano Kilauea in Hawaii, [399 sqq.]
Personifications of nature, [32], [34];
of ghost by an actor, [306]
Pied fantail in Maori story of origin of death, [18 sq.]
Pigeons, divine, [184];
kept tame, [191]
Pigs' liver a god, [96]
Pigs offered to the dead, [231];
sacrificed, [264], [265], [291];
for recovery of sick, [351];
to the dead, [368].
See [Hogs]
Planets, the shrine of a god, [228]
Pleiades, emblems of deified chiefs, [204]
Po, region of departed souls (Maori), [27]
Po, Night or the primaeval darkness, the abode of the gods and of the dead, [258], [277], [298 n.1], [305], [308], [315], [316], [317], [323], [393], [397], [427]
Pollution caused by death, [312 sq.], [427]
Polack, J. S., [7 n.1]
Polyandry among the Marquesans, [337 sq.]
Polygamy in the Hervey Islands, [223]
Polynesians, [1 sqq.];
their origin and language, [2 sqq.];
mode of life, [4];
dispersal from Savaii (Hawaiki), [6], [154 sq.];
or from Tonga, [56];
their knowledge of fire, [56 sq.];
ignorant of metals, [61], [250]
Polytheism developed out of totemism, [94]
Porpoises, gods in, [66], [92]
Porter, Captain David, [330], [332], [344 n.1], [350], [353], [357 n.3], [362], [364 sq.], [372]
Pottery unknown to the Samoans, [181]
Prayers to the gods, [79];
to the dead, [121];
to animal gods, [182];
for temporal benefits, [189];
before going to war, [189];
for the dying, [208];
offered to souls of dead relatives at their graves, [217];
rhythmical and ancient, [225];
offered to kings, [255];
of the Society Islanders, [257];
for the recovery of the sick, [257], [398];
to Oro, [261];
liturgical, [295 sq.];
over the dead, [310];
for the dead, [318];
at temples, [327];
before battle, [397]
"Praying people," sorcerers, [229]
Presents brought to dying people, [207 sq.]
Priestess claiming to personify goddess, [401]
Priests practise enchantments, [13 sq.];
descended from the gods, [29];
their souls immortal, [29];
summon up spirits of dead, [31];
Tongan, their inspiration, [77 sqq.];
Samoan, [192 sq.];
inspired, [194];
consulted as to cause of sickness, [207];
inspired, called "god-boxes," 228 sq.;
speaking in name of gods, [258], [293 sqq.];
of shark gods, [276];
in the Society Islands, [292 sqq.];
inspired by sharks, [403];
Hawaiian, [404]
Property buried with the dead, [20], [140 sq.], [211], [232 sq.];
private, in relation to taboo, [47 sq.];
rights of, in Samoa, [169 sqq.]
Prostitution, general, of women at the death of a great chief, [423]
Pukapuka, Danger Island, [230]
Pulotu, Samoan name for abode of the dead and of the gods, [204], [205], [214], [216], [217].
Compare [Bolotoo]
Punishments in Samoa, [159 sq.]
Purification of king at installation, [255 n.1];
of land after defilement, [287 sq.];
after contact with the dead, [210], [313];
of the souls of the dead, [316]
Pyramidal tombs, [115]
Pyramidical temples of Tahiti and the Marquesas, [119]
Pyramids, stepped or terraced, [116], [117], [278 sqq.];
of stone, stepped or terraced, in Hawaii, [408 sqq.]
Quiros, Fernandez de, [246]
Ra, the sun-god, caught by Maui in nooses, [226]
Radiguet, M., [338], [341], [357 n.1], [358], [373]
Raiatea, one of the Society Islands, [246], [255], [258], [259], [266], [289], [315], [317], [318], [319]
Rail-bird sacred, [95];
omens from, [190]
Rainbow worshipped, [93], [182];
omens from, [191], [397];
emblem of deified chiefs, [204 sq.];
superstitions about, [267], [269]
Rangatira, gentleman, [43], [44];
landowners, [224]
Rangi, god of sky, [34 n.2]
Rarotonga, one of the Hervey Islands, [219], [221], [222], [224], [226], [228], [232], [243], [244]
Raupa, a burial cave, [237]
Recorders, sacred, [295 sq.], [298]
Red, bones of dead painted, [21];
tabooed, [227];
feathers regarded as divine, [290 sq.]
Red Cave, [239], [240]
Reincarnation of the dead, [368 sq.]
Reinga, leaping-off place of souls (Maori), [27]
Religion of Maoris concentrated on worship of dead kinsfolk, [34];
homogeneity of Polynesian, [35 n.];
the Tongan, [64 sqq.];
ethical influence of the Tongan, [146 sq.];
of the Samoans, [181 sqq.];
of the Hervey Islanders, [225 sqq.];
early stage of, [226];
of the Society Islanders, [256 sqq.];
without influence on morality, [318];
of the Marquesans, [348 sqq.];
of the Hawaiians, [390 sqq.]
Remy, J., [412 n.1], [415 n.1]
Renan, Ernest, on the Hebrew prophets, [147]
Respect for chiefs in Samoa, [171 sqq.]
Resurrection of the dead, Hawaiian notions about the, [430 sq.]
Rewards, posthumous, no belief in, [67], [146]
Rhodesia, Northern, belief as to mother of twins in, [269]
Rib of the first man, the first woman created out of the, [393 sq.]
Rites, of burial and mourning in Tonga, [132 sqq.];
funeral, in the Hervey Islands, [231 sqq.];
religious, of the Society Islanders, [257];
of purification, [288].
See [Ceremonies]
River of the Water of Life (Maori), [28];
in the nether world, [216]
Rivers, W. H. R., [4 n.1], [119], [124 n.1], [128], [202], [218], [266 n.4]
Roberts, E., [371]
Rohutu, the abode of the dead, [319 sq.], [327]
Rongo, god of peace and agriculture, [35 n.];
a great Polynesian god, [224], [225], [226], [392], [395];
his sacred stream and grove, [240], [241];
god, inventor of circumcision, [224]
Rono, a great Hawaiian god, [404], [416].
See [Lono]
Roscoe, J., [271]
Routledge, S. and K., [279 n.1]
Ruahatu, a sea-god, [276]
Sā-le-Fe'e, the Samoan Tartarus, [216]
Sacredness of chiefs, [172 sqq.]
Sacrifice of children, [75 sq.], [81 sq.];
of hogs, [79];
of fingers, [80];
of first-born sons, [89];
as magical, [83];
of pigs to the dead, [368];
of hogs to volcano, [399]
Sacrifices in the Society Islands, [291 sq.];
of pigs for the recovery of the sick, [351].
See [Human sacrifices]
Sacrilege, [67];
its expiation, [74 sqq.], [183 sqq.]
Samoa, general name for the group of islands, [148];
original seat of Polynesian race, [154]
Samoan Islands, [148 sqq.];
volcanic activity in, [151 sq.];
climate, [152 sqq.]
Samoan Islanders, their appearance and character, [156 sqq.];
houses, agriculture, and industries, [163 sqq.];
rights of property, [169 sqq.];
government, [171 sqq.];
religion, [181 sqq.]
Samoan worship of natural objects, [93], [96 sq.];
of animals and other natural objects developed out of totemism, [200 sqq.], [218]
Sanctity of kings in the Society Islands, [253 sq.];
of priest of Tani (Tane), [293]
Sanctuaries for criminals, [282]
Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, [375 sqq.]
Sandwich Islanders, [377 sqq.];
their four chief gods, [35 n.]
Saturnalia at the death of a king or high chief in Hawaii, [421 sqq.]
Savage thought inconsistent, [84], [90 sq.]
Savages not addicted to sun-worship, [131]
Savaii, one of the Samoan islands, centre of Polynesian dispersion, [6], [148 sq.], [150 sq.], [154 sq.], [192],
[195], [202], [215]
Saveasiuleo, the king of the lower regions, [216 sq.]
Scalps of slain foes taken, [162]
Sea, gods of the, [276 sq.]
Sea eels sacred, [93], [94], [185]
Sea gull sacred, [93]
Sea-snake as god, [185]
Sea-urchin, family god in, [183]
Second death, [29]
Secret burial, [21]
Semites sacrifice first-born sons, [89]
Serfdom, alleged, in Hawaii, [385]
Shadow, soul associated with, [205 sq.]
Sham fights at obsequies of Samoan chiefs, [211], [212];
at Melanesian funerals, [212];
after a death, [234], [235], [236], [303]
Shark-gods, [227], [276]
Shark's teeth, omens from, [191]
Sharks as ministers of justice, [77];
gods in, [96], [182];
sacred, [93];
still-born children turned into, [398], [403];
worshipped in Hawaii, [402 sqq.]
Shells (Murex namoces) in which the souls of the dead were supposed to lodge, [325]
Shortland, E., [6 n.2]
Sick people carried to temple, [195]
Sickness supposed to be caused by evil spirits, [417].
See [Disease]
Sinnet tenanted by a god, [228]
Sins of the dead buried in a hole, [305]
Sisters, curses of, specially dreaded, [207]
Skins of the dead preserved as relics, [367]
Skulls of dead kept in houses, [118];
of ancestors kept in temple or house, [288], [311];
of dead rulers worshipped, [324];
of dead hidden in caves, [357]
Sky raised by Maui, [226], [275]
Slaves killed to accompany their dead lords, [24];
in the Society Islands, [253]
"Slaying the ghosts," 234
Smith, E. W. and Dale, A. M., [425]
Smith, S. Percy, [155]
Snakes, water, gods in, [66], [92]
Sneezing, Hervey Islanders' theory of, [229]
Social ranks in Samoa, [171 sqq.];
in Rarotonga, [224];
in the Society Islands, [253];
among the Marquesans, [344];
in Hawaii, [383 sqq.]
Society Islanders, [248 sqq.]
Society Islands, [246 sqq.]
Songs in honour of the dead, [236].
See [Dirges]
Sorcerers (Maori), [13 sqq.];
disease and death ascribed to arts of, [300], [325 sq.];
Hawaiian, [405].
See [Magic]
Soul, Maori ideas concerning the, [10 sqq.];
as shadow, [11];
as breath, [11];
departure of soul from body, [12 sqq.];
its fate after death, [24 sqq.], [66], [86 sqq.], [213 sqq.], [238 sqq.], [313 sq.], [427 sqq.];
survival of, [24];
ascent to heaven, [24 sqq.], [29];
Tongan theory of, [66], [84 sqq.];
Samoan belief concerning the, [205 sq.];
associated with shadow, [205 sq.];
of the same shape as body, [205];
belief of the Society Islanders concerning the, [297 sqq.];
beliefs of the Hervey Islanders concerning the, [229 sqq.];
beliefs of the Marquesans concerning the, [352];
Hawaiian beliefs concerning the, [417]
Souls of commoners mortal, [29];
souls of chiefs and priests immortal, [29];
of the dead appear in dreams, [31], [91 sq.];
of ancestors cause disease, [49];
of dead infants cause disease, [49], [299];
of dead nobles as gods, [64 sq.], [66], [84], [91];
of dead men as gods, [64], [66], [69], [85], [91], [351 sq.], [397];
of Tongan commoners mortal, [66], [85];
caught in traps, [230 sq.];
leaping-place of, [27], [241];
ascribed to animals, trees, and stones, [297];
of the dead eaten by the gods, [315], [427];
of children supposed to transmigrate into sharks, [403]
Spells (Maori), [13 sqq.]
Spencer, Herbert, his theory that temples are derived from tombs, [100]
Spirit world, Maori ideas of, [29 sq.]
Spirits of the dead become gods, [31 sq.];
threatened, [208].
See [Gods], [Souls]
Spittle used in magic, [15], [300], [325], [405];
collected to prevent its use in magic, [405 sq.]
Stair, J. B., [152], [173 n.1], [203 n.2], [206 n.1]
Star, shooting, worshipped, [93]
Stars observed by the Samoans, [161]
Sterndale, H. B., [197], [198], [199]
Stewart, C. S., [157 n.7], [337 sq.], [340 sq.], [344 n.1], [348 sq.], [349 sq.], [358], [372], [377], [424]
Stick-and-groove mode of kindling fire, [181]
Stilts, racing or combating on, [339 sq.]
Stinging ray fish, divine, [184], [185];
taboo to some Marquesans, [347]
Stone-cutting in Tonga, craft of, [127]
Stone monuments in Samoa, [197 sqq.]
Stone temple, ruins of, in Samoa, [196 sq.]
Stone tools and weapons, [10], [61], [180], [250 sq.], [335], [382];
in Tonga, [61];
in Samoa, [180]
Stonehenge, trilithons at, [123], [129], [130]
Stones worshipped, [182], [187];
piled on graves to prevent the dead from rising, [232]
Succession of eldest sons at their birth, [255 sq.]
Sugar-cane cultivated, [379]
Suicides, their fate after death, [363]
Sun, supposed secret worship of the, in the Pacific, [119];
Stonehenge supposed by some to be a temple of the, [130];
Tongans not worshippers of the, [131];
tradition of human sacrifices to, [158];
not worshipped in Samoa, [192];
ghosts journeying with the, [239 sqq.];
caught and stopped by Maui, [275], [287 n.], [396];
not worshipped by the Society Islanders, [286];
souls of the dead gather in the, [320]
Sun god caught by Maui, [226];
supposed worship of, [266], [286 n.5]
Sun worship, savages not addicted to, [131]
"Sun-dried gods," title applied to embalmed bodies of chiefs, [205]
Superstitious terrors reinforce morality, [83]
Taaroa (Taroa), a great god, [255 n.1], [258], [266], [267], [276], [287 n.];
supreme god of Polynesia, [290].
Compare [Tanaroa], [Tangaloa], [Tangaroa]
Taboo (tapu) among the Maoris, [32], [34], [37 sqq.], [432];
contracted by contact with the dead, [39], [209];
of sacred chiefs, [41 sqq.];
its effect in confirming the rights of private property, [47 sq.];
ultimate sanction of, [49];
supposed effects of breaking a, [76 sq.];
consequent on touching a dead body, [137 sq.];
comprises ideas of holiness and uncleanness, [173];
signified by white cloth, [344];
in the Marquesas, [345 sqq.];
a definition of, [348];
in Hawaii, [387 sqq.];
breaches of, punished with death, [389];
abolished in Hawaii, [389 sq.];
rigour of, [416];
an aristocratic institution, [432]
Tabooed priest, [404]
Taboos imposed by chiefs, [175], [432]
Tahaa, one of the Society Islands, [246], [258]
Tahiti, [246], [247], [255], [266], [279], [282], [283], [314], [321];
morais in, [116 sqq.], [279 sqq.]
Tahowa, priest, [293]
Tahuata (Santa Christina), one of the Marquesas, [349], [359], [360], [364], [367]
Taipii (Typee), valley of, in Nukahiva, [360], [365]
Taipiis or Typees, a tribe of Nukahiva, [330], [332], [365], [373]
Tairi (Kaili), the national war-god of Hawaii, [396], [397], [404], [411]
Takalaua, a Tooitonga, [108]
Tali-y-Toobo, Tongan god of royal family, [70], [73], [77], [79], [121]
Tame gods, [191]
Tamehameha, king of Hawaii, [384], [423].
See [Kamehameha]
Tanaroa, Tangaroa, Tagaloa, Taaroa, dialectically different names of a great Polynesian god, [258], [392]
Tane (Tani), a great Polynesian god, [35 n.], [241], [258], [280], [284], [293], [392], [394], [397]
Tane-kio, a god, enshrined in the planets Venus and Jupiter, [228]
Tangaloa, god, drew up Tonga Islands on a fishing-hook, [65], [72 sq.];
god of artificers, [72];
puts god Hikuleo in durance, [88];
ancestor of Tui-ta-tui, [127];
temple of, [196];
principal god of Samoans, the creator, [202 sq.];
said to have fished up the islands, [202], [203]
Tangaroa, god of ocean, [35 n.];
a great god, brother of Rongo, [226]
Tapu. See [Taboo]
Taro the staple food of the Samoans, [165];
of the Mangaians, [222];
and of the Hawaiians, [378]
Tattooing, not applied to the Tooitonga, [81];
nor to the sacred kings of Mangaia, [224];
as a punishment in Samoa, [160];
of the Marquesan islanders, [331 sq.];
marks of, removed from corpse, [368];
of the Hawaiians, [378];
of the tongue in mourning, [421]
Tauas, inspired men, [350 sq.]
Tauata (Santa Christina), one of the Marquesas Islands, [337]
Taylor, R., [7 n.1], [32 n.1], [n.2], [36], [42]
Tee, teehee, tii, spirit of the dead, guardian spirit, [313], [322], [323 n.1]
Teeth, loss of, penalty for breach of taboo, [209 sq.];
knocked out in mourning, [231], [420], [423], [424]
Tekuraaki, a god, incarnate in the woodpecker, [228]
Temple, dead Areois buried in, [261];
bones of human victims buried in, [292];
bones of dead chiefs buried in, [311]
Temples of the gods in Tonga, [73 sqq.], [99 sqq.];
and graves, question of, [99 sqq.];
and tombs, [99 sqq.];
Samoan, [194 sqq.];
in the Society Islands, [278 sqq.];
dedicated to sharks, [402], [403];
Hawaiian, [406 sqq.]
Theft, ordeal for detection of, [77]
Thieves, Hiro the god of, [326];
divination to detect, [406]
Thunder and lightning, no Tongan god of, [71];
Tongan idea concerning, [90]
Thunder-god kept in captivity, [191 sq.]
Thomas, Rev. John, [57 n.1], [111 n.]
Thomson, A. S., [6 n.2]
Thomson, Sir Basil, [87 n.1], [106], [107], [115], [116], [124], [125], [126], [127], [128], [129]
Tiaio, a god of the Hervey Islanders, [227]
Tiaraboo (Tiarroboo, Tairaboo), the southern peninsula of Tahiti, [257], [283]
Tiburones, a mythical paradise, [352], [364]
Ti'iti'i, hero, robs Mafuie of fire, [203]
Tii, a worshipful spirit of the dead, [324].
Compare [Tee]
Tiki, the god of the dead, [231], [232]
Tiki, a heroine, [239];
warder of the land of the dead, [244 sq.]
Tiki, a Marquesan god, [343], [350 n.4]
Timatekore, a god of the Hervey Islanders, [226]
Tofua, Tongan island, [96]
Togo, in West Africa, [271]
Tohunga, Maori priest, [16 n.3]
Tombs, megalithic, of the Tooitongas, [99 sqq.], [105 sqq.], [119], [123], [132];
and temples, [99 sqq.]
Tonga or Friendly Islands, [52 sqq.]
Tonga Islanders, [57 sqq.];
their religion, [64 sqq.];
their national and tribal gods, [93 sq.]
Tongataboo, [52], [86], [94], [106], [111], [112], [113], [114], [119], [120], [123]
Tonga-iti, a god in the Hervey Islands, [227]
Tooas (tuas), Tongan commoners, [66], [85], [86], [87]
Toobo Toty, a Tongan god, [71]
Toogoo Ahoo, king of Tonga, [81]
Tooi fooa Bolotoo, a Tongan god, [70 sq.]
Tooitonga, sacred chief or king of Tonga, [62], [66], [73], [81], [82], [94], [106], [107], [108], [110], [115], [116], [117], [120], [121], [122], [123], [126], [127], [144], [145];
tombs of the Tooitongas, [105 sqq.];
obsequies of the, [140 sqq.]
Tooi-tonga-fafine, sister of the Tooitonga, [110]
Totemic gods of Samoa, [202]
Totemism, Tongan polytheism developed out of, [94];
Samoan worship of animals developed out of, [200 sqq.], [218];
theory that it has been developed out of metempsychosis, [218];
relics of, in the Hervey Islands, [227 sq.];
traces of, among the Marquesans, [347];
relics of, in Hawaii, [402]
Trade guilds among the Samoans, [167 sq.]
Transmigration of souls not believed in by the Samoans, [218];
of souls of children into sharks, [403]
Traps set for souls, [230]
Tree, family god in, [192];
on which ghosts perch, [241]
Trees, dead deposited on, [20 sq.];
tenanted by gods, [228];
sacred, [281 sq.];
worshipped, [402]
Tregear, E., [6 n.2], [126 n.2], [392]
Tribes or clans among the Hervey Islanders, [223]
Trilithon in Tongataboo, [123 sqq.]
Trilithons at Stonehenge, [123], [129], [130]
Trinity, the Hawaiian, [392]
Triton-shell, god in, [228]
Tropic-bird sacred, [93]
Tu, Maori war-god, [35 n.];
a great Polynesian deity, [392]
Tuaraatai, a sea god in the Society Islands, [276]
Tufoa, volcanic island, [53]
Tui-ta-tui, a Tooitonga, [127], [128]
Tulafales, householders or gentry in Samoa, [176], [177], [178], [179], [180]
Tuoro, in Rarotonga, the meeting-place of ghosts,
[243], [244]
Turnbull, J., [262]
Turner, Dr. George, [183 n.1], [203 n.2], [206 n.1], [212], [213]
Turtles, family god in, [183 sq.]
Tutuila, Samoan island, [149], [175], [176], [180], [215]
Twins, divine, [226];
heavenly, [267];
customs and superstitions concerning, [267 sqq.];
thought able to influence the weather, [267 sq.];
fertilising power ascribed to, [269 sqq.];
divine Hawaiian, [394]
Tyerman and Bennet, [260], [281], [283], [295], [315], [386]
Tylor, E. B., [3 n.3]
Typee. See [Taipii]
Typees or Taipiis, a tribe of Nukahiva, [330], [332] 365, [375]
Uea (Wallis Island), [125]
Uganda, human sacrifice in, [84]
Uhane, soul, [417]
Ui, a heroine, beloved by the sun, [158]
Uli, a Hawaiian god, [405]
Umi, king of Hawaii, [411], [413]
Unburied dead, Samoan ceremonies for, [205 sq.]
Uncleanness, and holiness blent in taboo, [173];
caused by contact with a corpse, [312 sq.], [427]
Underworld, home of the souls of the dead, [27]
Upolu, Samoan island, [149], [152], [155], [162], [185], [196], [202], [214], [215]
Upu, a Marquesan goddess of the dead, [367], [368]
Uriwera, a Maori people, [15]
Urutetefa, patron deity of the Areoi Society, [263], [265], [267]
Utakea, a god incarnate in the woodpecker, [228]
Vatea, a primary god, [226]
Vavau, a Tongan island, [52], [53], [73]
Veachi, sacred personage in Tonga, [66]
Veeson, George, [86]
Vegetable gods in Samoa, [192]
Ventriloquism, [370]
Venus, the planet, the shrine of a god, [228]
Vergnes, P. E. Eyriaud des, [374]
Village gods, [182], [185]
Villages, Samoan, self-governing, [178 sq.]
Vincendon-Dumoulin, [118], [358], [373]
Virtue, Tongan ideas of, [66 sq.], [146 sq.]
Volcanic activity in Tonga Islands, [53 sqq.];
in Samoa, [151];
in Hawaii, [375]
Volcano, goddess of, in Hawaii, [399 sqq.];
offerings to, [399 sq.]
Wahi taboo, sacred place, temple, [387 sq.]
Wahine ariki, [40]
Waimate Plains in New Zealand, [23]
Wakea. See [Akea]
Wallis Island (Uea), [125]
Wallis rediscovers Society Islands, [246]
War gods, Samoan, [186], [188], [189 sq.]
War-gods, images of, carried to battle, [397]
Warriors tabooed, [40 sq.]
Warriors, fate of souls of dead, [242 sq.], [244 sq.]
Water of Life, River of the, [28];
in the nether world, [216]
Weaving practised by Maoris, [9]
West, Thomas, [114]
Whale, soul of dead priest in a, [369]
Whales worshipped, [93]
Whattas, altars, [391], [392]
White cloth as mark of taboo, [344];
flags as marks of property, [386]
Widowers tabooed, [39]
Widows killed to accompany their dead husbands, [24];
tabooed, [39];
strangled and buried with their husbands, [145];
dances of, [353], [354]
Wilkes, Charles (Commodore), [57], [61 n.], [87], [89 n.1], [90], [155 n.1], [384 sq.], [411]
Williams, John, [80], [157 n.7], [158], [181], [185], [221], [231]
Wilson, James, [264 n.5]
Winds imprisoned by two gods, [277]
Windward Islands, [246]
Wiro, evil spirit, [27]
Woman, the first, created out of a rib of the first man, [393 sq.]
Women well treated by Tongans, [61 sq.];
well treated by the Samoans, [157];
excluded from temples, [288 sq.];
forbidden to eat with men, [381];
forbidden to partake of sacrifices, [388]
Woodpecker, gods incarnate in the, [228]
Worms, souls of the dead in the shape of, [29]
Worship of ancestors among the Maoris, [32 sqq.];
of the Tongan gods, [79 sqq.];
of nature, [93];
of the dead tends to encroach on the worship of the high gods, [97 sq.];
of animals and other natural objects in Samoa, [182 sqq.], [200 sqq.];
of the dead in Samoa, [204 sq.];
of the dead, elements of the, [205];
of the sun, supposed, [266], [286 n.5];
of the dead in the Society Islands, [322 sqq.];
of animals in Hawaii, [401 sqq.]
See [Religion]
Wrestling matches as funeral rite, [140], [144], [211];
at obsequies of chiefs, [303]
Wrestling and boxing matches at obsequies of Samoan chiefs, [211];
in honour of Lono (Rono), [395], [416]
Yam festival in Tonga, [71 sq.]
Yams, new, offered at grave, [122]
Young, John, [422 sq.]
Zulu superstition as to twins, [270]