Tahitian Legend of Tahiai. Cannibals who came there were eventually killed (p. 169). Cannibalism was repudiated by Tahitians from ancient times.
Principal gods of Society Islands:
| Huaheine | Tane |
| Tahaa | Tane |
| Raiatea | Oro |
| Bolabola | Oro |
| Eimeo | Oro |
| Tahiti | Oro |
| Mauroa | Tu |
| Tubuai | Tamai |
| Mataia Ohuab | Tupu |
| Tupu ai | |
| Rymaraiwa | |
| Chain Island | Tamarii |
| Sander’s Island | Taaroa |
| Tah. Taiarapu | Opunua |
| Taiarapu | Halutiri |
Uru-tae-tae was the Tahitian god who conducted departed spirits, for whom the priests of Roma-tane were employed, to the place of happiness.
Tali-ai-tubu. The principal god of the Tongas. God of war. Is that a namesake or transfer of the blood-thirsty Indian goddess Kali or Patra-Kali, the wife of Siwa?
“The Tahitian god Oro was called Koro in Raiatea. The Atituakians say they came from Awaiki, Tetarewa being the first. Awaiki was below. Tetarewa climbed up from it.
“The chief Makea at Rarotonga in 1840 was the twenty-ninth descendant from Karika, or Makea Karika, who came from Manuka or Manua, one of the Samoan group. He fell in at sea with Tangiia, a chief from Faaa in Tahiti. Tangiia made submission and the two went to Rarotonga and settled there.” (Missionary Enterprises, Rev. J. Williams, Ch. XIII.)
Ruanuu—Luanuu, a chief at Raiatea, left that island and settled at Aitutaki. Conductor of fleets; his genealogy kept up at Aitutaki. (Id., Ch. VII.)
In Tahiti the vaa were: vaa-mataaina, double canoes belonging to principal chiefs and public districts, fifty, sixty or seventy feet long; three or four feet deep. Stern ornamented with tii; then the pahi or war canoe, double, from sixty to one hundred feet long, three to four feet deep. The vaa-tii, sacred canoes, similar.
Common double canoe, tipairua.—Haw. kaulua.