Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

[799] Martin, II, Vocabulary, s. v. mahina, ‘moon, month’.

[800] Ellis, Polyn. Res.³, I, 86.

[801] Forster, pp. 438 ff.

[802] Fornander, I, 125.

[803] von Bülow, Globus, 72, p. 239; G. Turner, A hundred years ago and long before, London, 1884, makes the same statement, Krämer (I, 356) differs very little from it; cp. also Hale, pp. 169 ff. A quite different list is to be found in a work inaccessible to me—Pratt and Frazer, Some Folk-songs and Myths from Samoa, R. Soc. of New S. Wales, XXIII, 1891, p. 121. It is worth noting that here two names of months are said to mean a demon, another a forest spirit.

[804] Lister, p. 53.

[805] Dibble, pp. 24 ff.; Fornander, I, 119.

[806] Haddon, p. 303; so also R. T. Str., p. 225.

[807] Spencer and Gillen, Centr. Austr., p. 25.

[808] Spencer, p. 444.