[42] Supposed to be "the finer or more aeriform part of the body," standing in "the same relation to the body as the perfume and the more essential qualities of a flower do to the more solid substances" (Mariner, vol. ii. p. 127).
[43] A kind of "clients" in the Roman sense.
[44] It is worthy of remark that δαίμων among the Greeks, and Deus among the Romans, had the same wide signification. The dii manes were ghosts of ancestors = Atuas of the family.
[45] Voyages aux îles du Grand Ocean, t. i. p. 482.
[46] Te Ika a Maui: New Zealand and its Inhabitants, p. 72.
[47] Compare: "And Samuel said unto Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me?" (1 Sam. xxviii. 15).
[48] Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia, p. 238.
[49] See Lippert's excellent remarks on this subject, Der Seelencult, p. 89.
[50] Sciography has the authority of Cudworth, Intellectual System, vol. ii. p. 836. Sciomancy (σκιομαντεία), which, in the sense of divination by ghosts, may be found in Bailey's Dictionary (1751), also furnishes a precedent for my coinage.
[51] "Kami" is used in the sense of Elohim; and is also, like our word "Lord," employed as a title of respect among men, as indeed Elohim was.