The Maori - Volume I
Index
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Index
- Aborigines. (See Mouriuri)
- Abortion, How procured 257
- Absolutory rites 266, 267, 285
- Abstraction, Faculty of 129, 305
- Address, Terms of 370
- Adultery 474
- Agility result of training 7
- Agnatic filiation 361
- Agriculture 390
- Agriculture and moon 131, 132, 133
- Agriculture myths 131, 133
- Agriculture permits of dense population 46
- Ahi amoamohanga—A first fruits rite 268
- Ahi horokaka—A war rite 268
- Ahi komau—Subterranean fire 108
- Ahi manawa—A tapu ceremonial fire 268
- Ahi marae—A war rite 268
- Ahi matiti rite—A magic rite 336
- Ahi purakau—Tree-felling ceremonial 268
- Ahi tahoka—A magic rite 268
- Ahi taitai—A sacred ritual fire 268, 309
- Ahi tapu (See Fire—Tapu fires) 268
- Ahi tipua—Subterranean fire 108
- Ahi torongu—A magic rite 268
- Ahi tumuwhenua—Tree-felling ceremony 268
- Ahi tupua a Hine-te-uira—Lightning 161
- Ahoaho o Tukapua—The Cloud House 162
- Aho ariki—Primogeniture 351
- Ahua—Semblance of a being, quality, etc. 310, 311, 392
- Ahua of vessel 321
- Ahurangi—A tuahu, or sacred place 293
- Ahurei—A tuahu, or sacred place 290
- Ahurewa, Te—A sacred place (See Tuahu) 70, 89, 292
- 'Aifa'arua'i of Taha'a Island 191
- Aitu 93
- Aitua—Omens, misfortune, etc. 93
- Aitua personifies misfortune 177, 231
- Aitupawa—A personification 100, 101, 103, 238
- Aka-roroa, Te—To Chatham Isles 60
- Akonga—Scholars (See Pia. Taura) 71
- Albinism 7
- Alphabet, Maori 17page 486
- Altars (See Ahurewa. Tuahu. Wahi tapu)
- Ameto 325
- Amoamohanga—First fruits 402
- Amorangi—Emblem of atua 72, 283
- Ancestors, Eponymic 344
- Angaanga—Spirit, etc. 300
- Animals known to Maori in far land 434
- Animatism 198, 199, etc.
- Ant and Cicada—A fable 217
- Anthropogenic myths 85
- Anthropometrical data 3
- Anu-matao—A primal condition 163
- Aokehu the Dragon Slayer 193
- Ao marama, Te—The world of life 95
- Aotea canoe 56, 64
- Aotea—Origin of name 41
- Ao-tu, Te—Te Ao-hore, etc. 162
- Ao-turoa, Te—This world 109, 118
- Aphorisms (See Proverbs)
- Apologetic expressions 437
- Apunga, Te—And vegetation 114
- Arai-te-uru canoe 56
- Ara matua—An astronomical term 321, 322
- Ara moana or sea roads 20, 31
- Ara tamatane—Male line of descent 361
- Aratauwhaiti canoe 356
- Aratawhao sails for Polynesia 56
- Ara tiatia, Te—Path to heavens 101, 321
- Arawa canoe 56–64
- Arawaru, Te—Origin of Shellfish 155
- Ara whanui a Tane—Spirit path 320, 321, 322
- Are vananga of Rarotonga—School of Learning 67
- Ariā—Form of incarnation, etc. 226, 274, 311
- Ariā of gods 242
- Ariki—First-born males of high rank 345
- Ariki—Selection of an unusual occurrence 349
- Ariki—Tapu of 349
- Ariki tauaroa 346
- Ariki deferred to 351, 352
- Aristocratic leanings of Maori 348, 352
- Aro—Mind, etc. (See Hinengaro. Ngakau) 313
- Arorangi in New Zealand and Rarotonga 211
- Artistic sense of Maori (See Decorative art) 17
- Asiatic—Polynesian parallels 127, 280, 296, 297
- Aspersion and immersion in rites 267
- Ata, Ata-a-rangi—Soul, etc. (See Wairua) 299
- Atahu rite—White magic 464
- Atea—Personifies space (See Watea) 92
- Atiawa raid Chatham Isles 63page 487
- Attitudes 436
- Atua, A watch viewed as an 229
- Atua kahu 241, 242
- Atua—Meaning of term 234
- Atua whiro 106
- Auahi-turoa—Comet 151
- Aura-like quality of man 307, 308, 335
- Aurora australis, Mythical cause of 40
- Awanui, Te—The caco-dæmon 241
- Awe or refined aspect of human soul 303
- Balance pole 402
- Banshee of Te Whaiti 202
- Basket of Evil 82, 328
- Baskets, Conical (See Food, 419) 430
- Baskets of Knowledge, Three 69, 73, 103
- Bat, Origin of 171
- Battle between Dogs and Lizards 185
- Battle between Fish and Man 181
- Battle of the Birds 178
- Beattie, H.—South Island notes 80
- Beauty appreciated by Maori 120
- Berries eaten by natives 429, 431
- Betrothal ceremonies 257, 258, 454
- Beverages 434
- Bird snaring 400
- Bird-snaring restrictions 254
- Bird tipua, or demons 202
- Birds and Rehua 114
- Birds as messengers in white magic 467
- Birds, Battle of the 178
- Birds, Myths concerning 215, 216, 224, 229
- Birds, Origin of (See Bat. Owl) 104, 114, 171
- Birds personified 97, 99, 176
- Birds released in rites 280, 286, 287
- Birds (See Seabirds, Bat, Cuckoo, Owl)
- Birds shall be oviparous 114
- Birth assisted by flute playing 298
- Birth ceremonies 116, 284, 297
- Birth (See conception)
- Birth of primal offspring 94–95
- Black folk of homeland 22
- Bligh's long boat voyage 36
- Blood as a medium in sympathetic magic 147
- Blue paint 348
- Bones of dead employed in rites 283
- Boundaries, Knowledge of carefully taught 394
- Boundaries of tribal and clan lands 394
- Boundary marks 395page 488
- Bowels as seat of feelings and mind 312
- Bowls 423, 424
- Brothers rocks are tapu 386
- Burdens—How carried 10, 402
- Cæsarian operation 126, 207
- Camp fires 436
- Cannibalism 10, 212
- Canoe awning 28
- Canoe destroyed on account of tapu 255
- Canoe making a tapu task 255
- Canoe paddling 31
- Canoe race at Tahiti 48
- Canoe, Cant lashings of 28
- Canoes, Carvel built 28
- Canoes, Double 26, 28, 30, 34, 54
- Canoes, Large 30
- Canoes of Polynesia 30
- Canoes of voyagers under tapu 33
- Canoes, Outrigger 26, 28
- Canoes prepared for storm 33
- Canoes, Rate of sailing 31
- Canoes, Structure of 28
- Canoes, War 28
- Canoes with two masts 30
- Canoes with three masts 34
- Canoes (See Sails. Vessels)
- Canoes (See Aotea. Arai-te-uru. Ara-tauwhaiti. Ara-tawhao. Arawa. Hawai. Horouta. Houama. Kahutara Kurahaupo. Mahuhu. Mamari. Matahorua. Matatua. Nukutere. Okoki. Oturereao. Paepae-ki-Rarotonga. Rangimatoru. Ririno. Tangi-apakura. Tawirirangi. Uruao. Waimate.)
- Captives, Curious requests of 397
- Carrying burdens 10, 402
- Carving (See Wood carving)
- Celtic myth of Flower Face 123
- Challenging visitors 375
- Character of Maori 348
- Charm repeated by travellers 201
- Charms (See Karakia. Magic)
- Chatham Isles discovered by Toi 49
- Chatham Isles, Kahu settles at 225
- Chatham Isles, Myths of 131, 132, 148
- Chatham Isles, Notes from 155, 161, 302, 314
- Chatham Isles raided by Maori 63
- Chatham Isles settled 60, 225
- Chiefs, Titles of (See Ariki. Toi Ariki. Upoko ariki. Whatukura) 345page 489
- Chieftainship 345, 451, 453
- Chieftainesses, Titles of 346, 348
- Children 409
- Children, Training of 411
- Cicada and Ant. Fable 217
- Civil law, Substitutes for 356, 358
- Civil law unknown 356
- Class, Lower social 346
- Classes, Social 345, 351
- Clay eating 432
- Cloud Children 109, 142, 162
- Cloud Children and their Cloud House 112, 162
- Cloud Maid, Birth of 116
- Clouds appointed to screen the Earth Mother 162
- Clouds, Origin of 109, 162
- Clouds personified 99, 105, 142, 162, 175
- Coconut, Mythical origin of 141
- Cold, Personified forms of 95, 175
- Comet brings fire to earth 151
- Comets, Personified forms of 175
- Communal life of Maori 342
- Compass unknown to Polynesians 26
- Conception caused by magic tree 297
- Confession and absolution 266, 285
- Conscience awakened by white magic 336
- Conscription not necessary in Maoriland 355
- Cook Straits, Crossing of under restrictions 386
- Cooking 416
- Cooking Sheds 419
- Cooking—Steam ovens 416
- Cooking Stones 419
- Cooking, Superstitions connected with 423
- Cooking (See Kohupara. Kope. Tapora. Tukohu)
- Copulation, Ceremonial 294
- Cordyline as a food product 427
- Cosmogonic genealogies 91, 92
- Cosmogonic myths 85, 91, 123, 153
- Cosmogonic tree 91
- Counting (See Numeration) 439
- Courtship 461, 464
- Covering head, Custom of 437
- Covering mouth, Custom of 436
- Craniometry, Maori 3
- Creation chaunt 86
- Crescent symbol in New Zealand and Polynesia 139
- Crescent symbol of moon god of agriculture carved on spade 139
- Crop failure, Cause of 231
- Cuckoo 180
- Cult of Io (See Io) 233page 490
- Cult of Io a restricted one 235
- Cultivated products introduced from Polynesia 60
- Cultivation grounds tapu 256
- Currents, Ocean, Studied by voyagers 34
- Dancing, Ceremonial 284
- Dancing, Peculiar mode of 168
- Dancing, Posture 284
- Darkness a primal condition 93, 94
- Dawn Maid 118, 119, 123
- Dawn Maid, Description of 120
- Dawn Maid descends to underworld 118
- Dawn Maid deserts Tane 118
- Dawn Maid protects souls of dead 314
- Day and Night separated 112
- Death and setting Sun 319
- Death becomes permanent 118
- Death enters the World 147
- Death, Sun connected with 132
- Death, Tapu of 252
- Decorative art 7, 17, 46
- Deluge myths 148
- Deluge myths as a product of Christian teachings 149
- Departmental deities (See Gods) 130
- Diet of Maori 425
- Discovery of New Zealand 41
- Disease 10, 336
- Disease, Controllers of 105
- Disease personified by Maiki brethren 106, 177
- Disposition of Maori 10
- Divinatory rites 329, 400, 402
- Division of labour 400, 402
- Divorce 475
- Dog, Native 434
- Dogs and lizards, Battle of 185
- Domestic implements 420
- Domestic usages 374
- Domestic vessels 423
- Dreams, Maori faith in 225, 228, 240
- Drift voyage from Asia 20
- Drift voyage causes Polynesians to settle in New Zealand 48
- Drift voyage of Mouriuri folk 5, 42
- Drift voyage of 1,300 miles 24
- Drift voyages in Pacific 34
- Drift voyagers reach New Zealand 42
- Ear piercing 407
- Earth is feminine and passive 113
- Earth, Names for the 174page 491
- Earth Mother, The (See Rangi and Papa) 94
- Earth Mother and maternal love 408
- Earth Mother clothed with vegetation 109
- Earth Mother, Overturning of 108
- Earthquakes, Cause of 100
- Earthquakes personified 99, 100, 175
- Earthworms eaten 432
- Easter Island, Crescent symbol at 139
- Easter Island, Long Ears of 21
- Echoe Children 134
- Education of native youths 394
- Eel and first woman (See Tuna) 479
- Eel and serpent. Phallic 140
- Eel as generator 479
- Eel personified 177
- Eels, Mythical origin of 108
- Eels (See Puhi. Tuna)
- Eggs, First produced 114
- Elements, Guardians of 105
- Elixir of life 242
- Emotions, Seat of 312, 313
- Epidemic caused by a watch 229
- Esoteric aspect of cult of Io 235
- Esoteric knowledge brought to earth 104
- Esoteric knowledge highly tapu 65
- Eternal life sought by Maui 147, 148
- Ethics impinge upon religion 266, 287
- Europeans invent a Maori hell 324
- Evening Maid, The 111
- Evil exists in this world only 171
- Evil, Origin of 89, 106, 107
- Fables 214, 216, 217
- Face painting 348
- Facial distortion, Maori powers of 439
- Faculties of Maori, Mental (See Mentality) 129
- Fair-haired natives (See Fairies. Urukehu) 7, 161, 220, 361
- Fairies (See Forest) 165, 168, 173, 219
- Fairies, Fair-skinned, etc. 219
- “Familiars” 238
- Family life unknown 361
- Family, True. No term to denote 364
- Family, True. Not a social unit 341
- Family group develops into tribe 340
- Fasting 266
- Fatalistic spirit of Maori 10
- Feasts 379
- Feathers concealed in forest 254
- Features of Maori 10page 492
- Female organ, Protective powers of 296
- Female element in tapu lifting 261
- Female element, Search for 113
- Female titles 346, 348, 350
- Fern roots, How prepared for food 427
- Festivals (See Feasts) 385
- Fiji a Melanesian outpost 38
- Filiation 361, 477
- Fines paid in goods 359
- Fire attacks Maui 145
- Fire, Certain peoples ignorant of 167, 206
- Fire Children 144, 151
- Fire Childen avenged by Hine-nui-te-Po 147
- Fire generated in rites 79
- Fire myths (See Auahi-turoa. Fire Children. Hine-kaiko-mako. Ira. Mahuika.)
- Fire of the underworld 108
- Fire, Origin of 151
- Fire procured by Maui 144, 146
- Fire procured from Rakahore 108
- Fire procured from sun (See Auahi-turoa)
- Fire, Sacred (See Ahi. Tapu fires)
- Fire seeks refuge in trees 145
- Fire walking 270
- Fireplaces (See Takuahi) 291
- First fruits rite 279
- First inhabitants of New Zealand 5, 42
- Fish and Tangaroa 155
- Fish—How they acquired their present forms 184
- Fish, Origin of 155
- Fish, Personified forms of 97, 177
- Fish tribes attack Man 181, 183
- Fish (See Inanga)
- Fishing nets, How art of making was acquired 219
- Flute played in cases of difficult parturition 298
- Flying men 211
- Folk lore 125, 126, 129, 164, 165, 177, 211, 223
- Folk lore (See Fables. Fairies. Taniwha. Tupua)
- Food abolishes tapu 81
- Food baskets 419
- Food bearing processions 377
- Food, Formula recited over 424
- Food—How served 419
- Food products—How protected 390, 393
- Food supplies 425
- Food supplies allotted to guests 384
- Forest lore 176, 254, 307, 308, 390, 391, 400
- Forest, Mythical denizens of (See Fairies) 212, 219, 221, 222, 224
- Formula recited in marriage ceremony (See Karakia) 469page 493
- Formula recited over food 424
- Fountain of youth (See Waiora a Tane) 138
- Four Way Path 321
- Frost Children 152
- Frost—How averted 270
- Fuel,—How procured 401
- Fungi as a food supply 432
- Gait of natives 436
- Gait of native women 408
- Genealogies enter into ritual 284, 469
- Genealogies recited in birth charms 469
- Genealogists, Maori as 344
- Genealogy of 1,400 names recited by Tamarau 344
- Gestures 19, 51, 438
- Ghosts—How laid 270
- Ghosts (See Kehua. Whakahaehae)
- Giants 224
- Gifts (See Presents) 385
- Girl confined in a “dovecote” 453
- Gods carried by voyagers 33
- Gods, Classification of 234
- Gods, Departmental 236
- Gods, Fourth class 238
- Gods, how developed 241, 242
- Gods, Mediums of (See Aria) 240, 241
- Gods, Offerings to (See Offerings) 236, 240
- Gods protect food products 305, 307
- Gods spoke in whistling tone 248
- Gods that die 243
- Gods, Third class 238
- Gods warn human mediums 240
- Godwit—Annual flight to Siberia 317
- Golden Way of Tane-te-waiora 320
- Gourd bowls 424
- Greenstone, Discovery of 41
- Greenstone, Myths connected with (See Poutini) 164
- Greenstone, Origin of 163
- Greenstone, Personified forms of 176
- Greenstone seeks a refuge in New Zealand 164
- Greetings 371
- Grinding stones 165
- Grubs eaten 432
- Guests, Reception of (See Visitors) 375, 384
- Ha and Io 90
- Haere-awaawa—Origin of the wood hen 114
- Haere, Uenuku, etc., represent rainbow 156, 238
- Hair as ariā or semblance of person, etc. 274page 494
- Hair as offering to gods 272, 273
- Hair cutting 272
- Hair cutting as a religious function 272, 273
- Hair cutting a tapu task 257
- Hair cutting by mourners 273
- Hair imparts mana to charms 273, 391
- Hair of Maori (See Fairhaired. Urukehu) 7
- Hair of women 408
- Hair used in rites 272, etc.
- Hakari (See Feasts. Festivals) 379
- Hakari, Origin of 385
- Hakari stages 381
- Hakari taonga 385
- Hallucination 250
- Hangi or steam oven 416
- Haowhenua—House of Rongo 101
- Hapu or clan, subtribe 340
- Harmony preserved in universe 105
- Harore (See Fungi)
- Harvest feast 385
- Hau and ohonga—Aura and medium 332
- Hau of footprint 335
- Hau of man and lands 307
- Haumia 99, 114, 237
- Hau o Pohokura—A wind 208
- Hauora—A condition 308
- Haupapa-nui-a-tau, Land of 42
- Hau-te-horo reaches New Zealand from Chatham Isles 60
- Hawai, Te—The vessel of Whatonga 50
- Hawaiian Isles, Settlement of 22
- Hawaiians reach Tahiti 36, 39
- Hawaiki 21
- Hawaiki-nui 104, 320, 321
- Hawaiki-nui o maruaroa 322
- Hawaiki, Place names of 323
- Hawaiki-rangi 104, 320
- Hawaiki-whakaeroero 320
- Hawaiki (See Isles)
- Hawk and fire 145, 146
- Hawk and hokioi 215
- Head covered on certain occasions 437
- Heavens, Twelve 88
- Heavens, Twelve, Denizens of 88
- Heavens, Twelve, Names of 88
- Heavenly bodies, Origin of 92, 97, 109
- Heavenly bodies placed on high 111
- Heavenly bodies (See Moon. Stars. Sun. Whanau marama)
- Heketoro, or fairies 219, 222
- Hell and defective ethics 325page 495
- Hema at Hawaii 153
- Herbal medicines 390
- Heriheri kai—Food-bearing procession 377
- Hikurangi, Mt. 149, 203
- Hikurangi, Mt., Ogre of 208
- Hiku-watea, Te 155
- Hina (personified form of moon) 131, 132, 323
- Hina and death 134
- Hina and Maui 134, 135
- Hina and moon 134
- Hina and Tane 131
- Hina and Tiki 135
- Hina and Tinirau 136
- Hina and Tuna 140
- Hina as a daughter of Rongo 135
- Hina as a daughter of Tane 136
- Hina as mother of Tiki 138
- Hina as wife of Tane 135
- Hina becomes Lono or Rongo 131, 135
- Hina connected with childbirth and weaving 136
- Hina has two faces 135
- Hina in Polynesia 135
- Hina i te po 134
- Hina-kai-tangata 134
- Hina-keha. Pale Hina 131, 138, 161
- Hina te iwaiwa 131, 132, 136
- Hina-uri. Dark Hina 131, 136, 138
- Hinau meal, How prepared 429
- Hine-ahiahi, the Evening Maid 111, 131
- Hine-ahua and tangiwai 165
- Hine-ahu-one, the Earth Formed Maid 107, 115
- Hine-aotea, the Day Maid 111, 131
- Hine-ata, the Morning Maid 111, 131
- Hine-i-tapeka, the Fire Maid 152
- Hine-i-te-huhi, the Swamp Maid 177
- Hine-kaikomako, the Fire Conserver 145
- Hine-kapua, the Cloud Maid 112, 116, 162
- Hine-karoro, personified form of a sea bird 176
- Hine-korako, the Moon Maiden 139, 238
- Hine-korako of Te Reinga 194
- Hine-makohu, the Mist Maid 162
- Hine-matioro, a famed chieftainess 353
- Hine-maunga, the Mountain Maid 154, 163
- Hine-maunga produced water 114
- Hine-moana, the Ocean Maid 97, 142, 154, 155, 156, 162
- Hine-moana attacks the Earth Mother 154
- Hinengaro—Mind and conscience 312
- Hine-nui-te-Po, Queen of underworld 119, 323
- Hine-nui-te-Po and death 324page 496
- Hine-nui-te-Po and Maui 146
- Hine-one, the Sand Maid 155, 163
- Hine-poupou swims across Cook Straits 126, 206
- Hine-pukohu-rangi, the Celestial Mist Maid 156
- Hine-raumati, the Summer Maid 110
- Hine-rau-wharangi 116, 155, 176
- Hine-ruarangi the banshee 202
- Hine-ruhi 408
- Hine-takurua, the Winter Maid 110
- Hine-te-ahuru, mother of stars 110
- Hine-te-aparangi discovers New Zealand 41
- Hine-te-iwaiwa—Tutelary being of women 294
- Hine-te-uira, the Lightning Maid 116, 161
- Hine-te-wai, Mother of rainbow 160
- Hine-titama, the Dawn Maid, Birth of 116
- Hine-titama descends to Rarohenga 118
- Hine-titama protects souls of dead 118, 119
- Hine-tu-a-hoanga, the Sandstone Maid 163, 164, 165
- Hine-tu-a-kirikiri, the Gravel Maid 163
- Hine-tuoi and volcanic phenomena 175
- Hine-turama, Mother of stars 97, 109, 110
- Hine-wai, the Rain Maid 156
- Hine-waoriki, Mother of the pine tree 176
- Hine-whaitiri, the Thunder Maid 175
- Hinutohu, Te, descends to underworld 409
- Hirihiri rite 267
- Historical traditions 57
- Hoa, magic spell 119
- Hokioi and hawk, Contest between 215
- Homeland of Maori 21
- Hongi salute 437, 438
- Hono charm 258
- Hono i wairua, Te—Spirits' meeting place 66, 320
- Honorific expressions 345, 348, 373
- Hopara makaurangi—Decorative painting 169
- Horanui-a-tau, Land of 42
- Hore and tuoro—Mythical monsters 194
- Horouta canoe 56, 64
- Hospitality 374
- Houama canoe reaches New Zealand 54
- House entered by window 379
- House of death 106
- House of Evil 66
- House of Mourning 476
- House of purification 321
- House of Tane 111
- House, Special, Built for certain purposes 471
- House with four windows 101
- “Houses” of Knowledge 69page 497
- Houses, Tapu of 256
- How Tamahape utilised his son-in-law 406
- How the Parrot gained his brilliant plumage 216
- Huaki-pouri—Home of Tane 101
- Hui-te-ananui, the “four-eyed” house 101, 116
- Hui-te-rangiora to Antarctic 38
- Human sacrifice 354
- Human sacrifice for new house 309
- Hurihanga a Mataaho 108, 149
- Hurumanu and sea birds 97, 114, 176, 320
- Hurunuku-atea, the north wind 153
- Huru-te-arangi, a wind parent 152
- Ice, Personified forms of 152
- Ihi and mārū qualities 107
- Ihomatua, the mind 313
- Iho-o-Kataka, the “phallic” tree 297
- Ihorangi, Te, personifies rain 97, 105, 145, 152, 162
- Ihorei, a title 345, 349
- Ihu-atamai, brother of Miru 323
- Ihu-parapara and Uenuku 159
- Ika purapura 309
- Ikaroa, Te, Milky Way 97, 105, 109
- Images employed as temporary shrines 281
- Immersion, ceremonial (See Aspersion) 116, 286
- Immigrants occupy certain districts 64
- Immigrants expand into tribes 63
- Imu horokaka rite 271
- Imu kirihau, etc. (See umu) 271
- Inanga, Migrations of 129
- Incest 447
- Indra and Ira 140
- Infanticide 413
- Insects, Origin of 163
- Insults 334
- Intercourse between tribes 354
- Internal competition unknown 339
- Intertribal wars 64
- Invitations to feast 380
- Invocations to Io (See under Io and Karakia)
- Io, the Supreme Being 233, 234, 320, 326
- Io, Abode of 88, 89
- Io and Ha 90
- Io and Jehovah 90
- Io and Tane 103
- Io as a demiurge 86, 89, 92
- Io, Attendants of 88
- Io, Cult of 90
- Io intensely tapu 87page 498
- Io, Invocations to 72, 76, 77, 82, 87, 235, 286
- Io-mataaho 108
- Io, Messengers of 99
- Io, Names of 87, 90, 235
- Io, No images of, or offerings to 90
- Io origin of human soul 115
- Io, Rarotongan knowledge of 90
- Io, Tahitian knowledge of 90
- Io the Eternal 86
- Io the origin of all things 89, 90
- Io the Parent 90
- Io the Parentless 89
- Io, Whare wananga of 66
- Io-wahine 121
- Ioio-whenua 175
- Ira the eel god 140
- Ira atua and ira tangata 113, 121
- Ira-panga's voyage to Ahu 22
- Ira tangata (See Ira atua)
- Ira tangata enters this world 116
- Irawaru 135
- Ira-whaki and Hine-kaikomako 145
- Irihia, the Polynesian homeland 21, 22, 320
- Irihia, Mt., in homeland 385
- Irirangi, Mt. 320
- Isis and Hina 135
- Isles of Hawaiki 172
- Istar and Hina 138
- Japanese drift vessels cross Pacific 21
- Jehovah and Io 90
- Kahu sails from Cook Straits to Chatham Isles 60, 225
- Kahukura (atua) 238, 281
- Kahukura and agriculture 133
- Kahukura and rainbow 156, 160
- Kahukura (human) and the net-making fairies 220
- Kahuponia, a whare takiura 67
- Kahurangi, a female title 348, 350
- Kahutara, Taikoria and Okoki canoes 42
- Kaihau women 271
- Kainga huna a Tane 325
- Kai pirau—Cannibalism 10
- Kairamua, a form of trespass 392
- Kai-tamahine custom 462
- Kai ure rite 296
- Kai-whakaruaki (Taniwha) 189, 191
- Ka mahunu, a rite of white magic 336
- Kani-a-Takirau, Te 352page 499
- Kanioro, the greenstone guardian 207
- Kapua-nui, Kapua-roa, etc. 376
- Kapu of pou rahui 392, 393
- Ka-pu-te-rangi pa at Whakatane 49
- Karakia (Charms, invocations, etc.) 262, 263
- Karakia atahu, or love charms 465
- Karakia, Detached aspect of 263
- Karakia—How rendered 75, 265
- Karakia hono tangata. Marriage ritual 457
- Karakia of Whare wananga 73, 75, 76, 77
- Karakia recited over a seer 286
- Karakia to Supreme Being (See under Io)
- Karakia, Wide application of term 263
- Karokaro-pounamu river in spirit world 323
- Kauwae-raro—Exoteric lore 69, 74
- Kauwae-runga—Esoteric lore 69, 74
- Kehua—Ghosts 229
- Kehua and wairua 301, 303
- Kekerewai, the poutiriao 105
- Kete aronui—Basket of Good 69, 73
- Kete o te wananga obtained by Tane 103
- Kete o te wananga (See “Baskets” of Knowledge)
- Kete tuatea—Knowledge of evil 73
- Kete tuauri—Basket of ritual 73
- Kikokiko—Malevolent ghosts 303
- Kiwa, guardian of the ocean 97, 105, 154, 155, 237
- Kohiwi, a visible form of an atua 312
- Kohupara mode of cooking 421
- Koparepare, a form of present 424
- Kope mode of cooking 421
- Korero purakau—Legendary tales 71, 126
- Korero tara—Stories 126, 178, 214
- Koro-tuatini “temple” at Hawaiki 323
- Kuku, Te, and volcanic phenomena 175
- Kumara acquired by Maori 210
- Kumara, Expedition to Hawaiki for 208
- Kumara myths 133
- Kupe and Ngahue reach New Zealand 41
- Kupe at Wellington Harbour 41
- Kupe returns to Polynesia 42
- Kura hau awatea—Solar halo 50, 246
- Kura hau po—Lunar halo 50
- Kurahaupo vessel. Duties of crew 51
- Kurahaupo reaches Rarotonga 51
- Kurahaupo reaches Taranaki 52
- Kurahaupo reaches Whakatane 52
- Kurahaupo sails for New Zealand 50, 52
- Kuranui, a name for the moa 207
- Kurawaka—Mons Veneris of Earth Mother 115page 500
- Kuri maori—Native dog 434
- Kuri nui a Meko, a taniwha 193
- Kuri ruarangi—Native dog 434
- Kuwatawata, Te—Guardian of entrance to spirit world 97, 104, 118, 168, 172, 320
- Labour, Division of (See Tasks) 264
- Lamps, Stone 424
- Land claims 344
- Land, Feeling of natives for 397
- Land, Singular mode of claiming 400
- Land tenure 394, 449
- Landslips ominous of evil 229
- Language, Maori 17, 129
- Language, Moriori 46
- Latrine, Rites performed at (See Ngau paepae) 296, 331
- Left hand used in ceremonial performances 153, 467
- Left foot possesses mana 258
- Left thigh, Ceremonial acts connected with 153, 270, 467, 468
- Leprosy 336
- Levirate 476
- Life principle (See Mauri)
- Life principle, All things possess a 128
- Life principle is tapu 299
- Light and Darkness 93
- Light born of Darkness 110
- Light, Children of (See Whanau Marama)
- Light enters the world 111
- Light, Phases of 95
- Light versus Darkness contest 99, 105, 107, 108, 140, 146
- Lightning Children 161
- Lightning Maid, Birth of 116
- Lightning personified 99, 161, 175
- Linga as symbol of fertility and reproduction 140
- Linga (See Phallus)
- Lizard 275, 328
- Lizard and death 107, 226
- Lizard as guardian of tapu 254
- Lizard personified 177
- Lizard represents Whiro 107
- Lizard, Origin of 187, 190
- Lizard, Superstitions connected with 225
- Lizards versus Dogs contest 185
- Long-haired women 168
- Love charms (See Atahu)
- Lustral rite (See Aspersion. Immersion 267
- Maero, or wild forest folk 204
- Magic 119, 147, 274, 281, 293, 296, 302, 309, 326, 383, 392
- Magic arts destroy life 82page 501
- Magic, How taught 69, 70, 82
- Magic ordeals experienced by learners 82
- Magic, Protective 268, 269, 331
- Magic, Rite to ward off 74
- Magic, Saliva employed in 274
- Magic sand dunes of Pae-kakariki 55
- Magic spell to cause sleep 210
- Magic stone mirror of Io 89
- Magic, White 464, 467, 468, 475, etc.
- Mahara—Thought 313
- Mahoihoi, Te, The Magician 205
- Mahora-nui-atea (the ocean) 153
- Mahuhu canoe 56, 64
- Mahuika, personified form of fire 146, 147, 151, 152
- Mahuika and Auahi-turoa 151
- Mahuika and Maui 144, 146, 152
- Mahuika seeks refuge with Hine-kaikomako 145
- Mahuru—Spring 175
- Mahutonga of Takitumu 245
- Maiki brethren represent disease, etc. 66, 106, 105, 177
- Maioha ceremony 116
- Mairiiri-kapua—The Wind House 103
- Makaka, Te, a tuahu 290
- Makamaka rimu rite 279
- Makatata—Parent of stones 163
- Makatiti—Parent of gravel 163
- Makutu (See Magic).
- Mamari canoe 56, 64
- Mamaru, Te, a guardian of heavens 162
- Man endowed with three qualities 107
- Man fashioned from earth 121
- Man fined for breaking his leg 360
- Man punished for his sins in this world 357
- Man, Origin of (See Anthropogenic myths) 113
- Man slain by magic spells 82
- Mana 200, 265, 270, 272, 283, 326, 327, 330, 333, 386
- Mana and tapu 258
- Mana atua 80, 386
- Mana, How transmitted 245
- Mana, Loss of 389
- Mana marae 374
- Mana of Polynesians in New Zealand 63
- Mana tangata 80, 388, 393
- Mana transferable 245, 389
- Manahune folk of Polynesia 21
- Manaia the voyager at D'Urville Island 54
- Manaia at Tongaporutu 52
- Manaia sails for New Zealand 54, 55
- Manaia v. Nuku, sea fight off Pukerua 55page 502
- Manawa and Manawa ora 115, 310
- Manawaru at Turanga 210
- Manea 308
- Manea of footsteps 335
- Mango trick in Polynesia 250
- Mangoroa-i-ata—Milky Way 148
- Manners and mannerisms, Maori 436, 437, etc.
- Mantis, Origin of 104
- Manu nui a Ruakapanga 61, 207, 208
- Manu nui a Ruakapanga known at Rarotonga 210
- Manu-whakatau (moa) 207
- Maori a mixed people 64
- Maori arts, etc., unknown in Polynesia 5
- Maori as a Polynesian 1
- Maori as a deep sea voyager (See Polynesian voyagers) 20
- Maori fellowship with nature 128
- Maori theogony 234
- Marae. Application of term 373
- Marae of Polynesia and New Zealand 291
- Maraea the prophetess 241
- Marae-nui—The ocean 103
- Marae-nui-atea—The ocean 132, 155
- Marae-roa—The ocean 132, 291
- Marakihau—Weird sea monsters 196
- Marama i whanake (moon) 109, 131
- Mareikura of twelfth heaven 66, 88, 90, 321
- Mareikura, a title of women 346
- Marion du Fresne died to uphold tapu 253
- Marquesans reach Hawaii 39
- Marriage 374, 442
- Marriage by capture 472
- Marriage ceremonial when not a ritual performance 445
- Marriage, Consanguineous 447
- Marriage custom of Mangaia 453
- Marriage discussed publicly 460
- Marriage feast 469, 470
- Marriage—Forbidden unions 446
- Marriage—Hono ritual 457
- Marriage, Intertribal 445, 447
- Marriage of woman with monster 188, 108
- Marriage—Rejected man resorts to magic arts 462
- Marriage, Three forms of 443, 471
- Marriage—Where line of prohibition was drawn 445
- Marrying age 450
- Maru, the atua 238
- Maruiwi (See Mouriuri) 44
- Maruaroa season 322
- Massage of infants 413
- Massage, Three forms of 413page 503
- Masticatories 432
- Mataaho, or Io-mataaho 108
- Mataaho, a personified form of lightning 161, 175
- Matahorua canoe reaches New Zealand 41
- Mātākai—A magic spell 332
- Matakite (See Second-sight. Seers) 240, 246
- Matakite, Initiatory rite over 284
- Matangireia in uppermost heaven 103
- Mataora and Niwareka 167
- Mataora descends to Rarohenga 168
- Mata o te tau—First fruits 279
- Matatua canoe reaches Aotearoa (N.Z.) 56, 64
- Matau a Maui—Hawke's Bay 144
- Mate a marama—Temporary death 134
- Matorohanga, Te 78, 84, 247, 315
- Maui, the demigod 141, 142
- Maui and death 147
- Maui and hawk 145
- Maui and Hina 134, 139, 144
- Maui and Hine-nui-te-Po 146, 148
- Maui and Irawaru 447
- Maui and Mahuika 144, 146, 152
- Maui and Tuna 140
- Maui assumes various forms 147
- Maui brings light to dark Hina (the moon) 146
- Maui brothers 142
- Maui connected with games 146
- Maui descends to underworld 143
- Maui elevates the heavens 144
- Maui hauls up the North Island 144
- Maui known as Tikitiki 146
- Maui-matawaru 142
- Maui nurtured at sea 142
- Maui of New Zealand and Moui of Egypt 140
- Maui slain by Hine 148
- Maui snares the sun 143
- Maui-mua and Hina 136
- Maungaharo, Mt., in homeland 320
- Maunganui, abode of the Children of Light 111
- Maungapohatu 194, 195, 205, 206
- Maungapohatu moves from Taupo 205
- Mauri, Life principle 303, 306, 391
- Mauri in all things 128
- Mauri—Its three aspects 304
- Mauri, Material. A talismanic shrine 77, 304, 305
- Mauri of a crop 390
- Mauri of a fish weir 306
- Mauri of a house 70
- Mauri of travellers 321page 504
- Mauri ora 306
- Mauri ora, Effect of pollution of 229
- Mawake-nui—One of the guardians of universe 162
- Māwe—Semblance of a fight, etc. 307, 310
- Meals 377, 401, 408, 413
- Meals taken outside house 258
- Medical science unknown 12
- Medicine 390
- Mediums employed in magic, etc. 281, 328, 333, 335
- Meko and his taniwha 193, 194
- Melanesian characteristics in Maori 1, 3, 5, 17
- Melanesians reach New Zealand 5, 56
- Memorising powers of Maori 12, 344
- Men, Tasks of 400
- Menials 347
- Mental activities, Seat of 312
- Mental phenomena appear in cosmogonic genealogies 92
- Mentality of Maori 12, 125, 129
- Meteors personified 175
- Meto—Comet 175
- Micturition 436
- Milky Way 148
- Milky Way betokens dawn 112
- Milky Way protects Star Children 112
- Mind emanated from Io 115
- Mind, Seat of 312, 313
- Miri aroha rite 475
- Mirror, Magic 89
- Miru of the underworld 323
- Misfortune treated as misdemeanour, and punished 359
- Mist Maid (See Hine-pukohu. Hine-makohu) 162
- Mist Maid and Uenuku 156
- Moa—The extinct Dinornis 195
- Moa killed by Ngahue at Arahura 165
- Moa seen by Maori 41, 61, 207
- Moana-kura 164
- Moana-nui of cosmogonic myth 153
- Moana nui a Kiwa—The ocean 154
- Moe-ahuru—Mother of heavenly bodies 97, 109
- Moe-tahuna—Parent of the duck 176
- Mohi Ruatapu 84, 315
- Moko, crocodile, taniwha and lizard 186
- Moko-huruhuru 95, 148
- Moko-nui; taniwha 193
- Mokoroa-i-ata—Milky Way 148
- Moon and fair-skinned persons 161
- Moon and agriculture 132, 135
- Moon and women 278
- Moon as husband of all women 134page 505
- Moon bathes in waters of life 138
- Moon connected with water 135, 141
- Moon deities are mild natured 139
- Moon deity. Symbol of in New Zealand 139
- Moon Maid 139
- Moon myths (See Hina. Rongo. Rona) 130, 131, 132, 134
- Moon, Origin of 109, 110
- Moon personified 131, 174
- Moon, Sex of changes 134
- Moon, Wives of 134
- Moon worship 132, 276, 278
- Morgan's misleading dictum 1
- Morianuku that gives on the spirit world 317
- Moriori folk of Chatham Isles 46, 63
- Moriori folk discontinue fighting 63
- Moriori myths 111
- Moriori (See Chatham Isles)
- Morning Maid 111, 131
- Mortal race sought to occupy the earth 113
- Mortuary memorials 252
- Mosquitoe, etc., Origin of 104
- Mottoes (See Proverbs)
- Moui of Egypt 108
- Moui and Maui 140
- Mounds employed in rites 121
- Mountain lore 203, 207
- Mountain Maid (See Hine-maunga)
- Mountain marriage 203, 204
- Mountains of homeland 203
- Mouriuri folk 5, 42, 56, 128
- Mouriuri folk, Area occupied by 46, 52
- Mouriuri folk, Description of 5, 42
- Mouriuri folk occupy Taranaki 44
- Mouriuri folk, Possible origin of 46
- Mouriuri folk reach New Zealand 42
- Mouriuri refugees settle Chatham Isles 60
- Mouriuri women marry Polynesians 58
- Mourning ceremonial 273
- Mourning of Rangi and Papa 96
- Mou-te-rangi sails for Polynesia 55
- Mouth, Curious habit of covering 436
- Mumuhanga, the mother of the totara 114
- Muriwai-hou and Tahekeroa 118, 317
- Muriwai-o-Whata 207
- Muru, Custom of 358, 472, 474
- Muru wahine 472
- Myth and religion 125
- Myths 124
- Myths, Astronomical 276page 506
- Myths, Evolution of 126
- Myths, Explanatory 129
- Myths far carried 126
- Myths impinge upon history 126
- Myths introduced from Polynesia 191
- Myths, Mountain 203, 204
- Myths of observation 128
- Myths, of Superior 125, 126
- Myths, Two versions of 85
- Mythopoetic culture stage 130
- Mythopoetic faculty and its results 12
- Name of person not asked 438
- Name of object sought must not be mentioned 226, 227
- Name, tapu 369
- Name becomes temporarily tapu 254
- Nanakia or Turehu 224
- Nasal sounds in Maori speech 18
- Natural phenomena personified 174
- Natural phenomena, Priestly powers over 246
- Nature myths 129
- Nelson's sun cult data 278
- Net making a tapu task 256
- Net making—How the art was acquired 219
- New Guinea—New Zealand parallels 298
- New Year festival 385
- New Zealand, Discovery and settlement of 21, 40, 42
- Ngahue alias Ngake 41, 164
- Ngahue kills a moa 165
- Ngahue returns to Polynesia 165
- Ngai-Tara of Wellington district 54
- Ngakau (bowels) as seat of feelings, etc. 312
- Nga Potiki or Tuhoe tribe 59
- Ngarara-huarau (taniwha) 191
- Ngau paepae rite 116, 296, 331
- Ngau taringa rite 245, 389
- Nga Whatu, the tipua rocks 386
- Niwareka and Mataora 167
- Nomenclature, Consanguineous 361, 362
- Nomenclature, Floral 370
- Nomenclature, Personal 367
- Nomenclature, Topographical 369
- Nomenclature, Tribal 367
- Non-Polynesian arts in New Zealand 128
- Nose of infant flattened 5
- Nose-pressing salute 437
- Nudity essential in ritual performances (See Rites) 285
- Nuku, Canoes of 54
- Nuku sails to New Zealand 28, 54page 507
- Nuku returns to Polynesia 55
- Nukumaitore, a strange folk 206
- Nuku-te-aio—Parent of knowledge 101
- Nukutere canoe reaches New Zealand 56
- Numeration (See Counting)
- Obesity among natives 7, 408
- Ocean, Guardians of 105, 155
- Ocean, Names of 155, 175
- Ocean personified 97, 175
- Ochre repulsive to fairy folk 222
- Odd numbers unlucky 229
- Offerings to fairies 220
- Offerings to gods 106, 275, 279, 310, 320
- Offerings to gods of hair 272, 273
- Offerings to gods placed on platform 290
- Offerings to local genii 199
- Ohaoha ritual of marriage 469
- Ohomairangi, a denizen of the heavens 102
- Ohonga—Medium in magic 147, 307, 332
- Oho rangi rite 80
- Okoki canoe lands at Taranaki 42
- Omens 161, 162, 171, 225
- One ahuahu a Manaia at Pae-kakariki 55
- One i Oroku, Te 111
- Oneiromancy (See Dreams) 225
- One soul of all things 91
- One tahua, home of cockles 155
- Ope tuarangi, or Ope paerangi 378
- Ope whakareka—Invitation party 380, 382
- Opoa, at Ra'iatea 248
- Orakau fight in 1864 242
- Order preserved in universe 110
- Origin of birds 114
- Origin of man 120, 121
- Origin of trees 114
- Origin of universe 86
- Origin of vegetation 114
- Origin of woman 113, 115, 477
- Orongonui night of moon 133
- Orongonui season 116
- Oturereao canoe reaches New Zealand 56
- Outrigger canoe swifter than double canoe 55
- Outrigger, Double 22
- Ovens, Steam 416
- Ovens, Tapu 271
- Owl and bat, Origin of 171
- Owl, Cry of is ominous 229page 508
- Pacific area, Peopling of 21
- Pacific area, Polynesians enter 20, 22
- Pack straps 404
- Pae and paepae 291
- Paepae-ki-Rarotonga canoe 48, 56
- Paerau of the spirit world 317
- Pahi—Deep sea vessels 31, 34
- Pahiko sails for Polynesia 55
- Paikea, the whale 196
- Paitini recites 406 songs 15
- Pakiwaitara—Stories 214
- Pakiwhara folk 44
- Pakuwha—Marriage usages 471
- Pa maori, fortified villages (See Villages) 7, 44, 46
- Pani and kumara 133
- Papa turned face down to Rarohenga 108
- Papa the Earth Mother (See Rangi and Papa) 97, etc,
- Papa-tu-a-nuku—The Earth Mother 97
- Papa-tiraharaha—The Earth Mother 97
- Papuni Lake—How formed 207
- Paraweranui—The south wind 152, 153
- Parauri 152, 153, 176
- Parauri begets the koko bird 114
- Parawhenuamea—Mother of waters 114, 154, 155, 163
- Parearohi—A personification 111, 120, 175
- Parehe, or fairies 223
- Parekawa and the taniwha 192
- Paretai—An implement 420
- Paremata—A form of present 456
- Parrot and parrakeet—A fable 216
- Paths under rahui 392
- Patua—A domestic vessel 423
- Patupaiarehe, or fairies 219, 223
- Peace-making function 385
- Peace personified 97
- Peketua forms the first egg 114
- Penetiti and his elixir of life 242
- Peopling of New Zealand 21, 42
- Perei as a food product 427
- Personal adornment (See Ornaments) 348
- Personal property 394
- Personifications 95, 96, 97, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 120, 121, 129, 131, 132, 133, 142 on, 151 on, 161 on, 174, 236, 238 on
- Personification, Maori genius for 174
- Perversion of Maori beliefs 315
- Phallic eel and phallic serpent 140, 141, 479
- Phallic stone 298
- Phallic symbolism 293page 509
- Phallic survivals (See Tawhito. Tiki)
- Phallic trees 297
- Phallus, Protective powers of 294, 296
- Phenicians in the Pacific 21
- Physical characteristics of natives 7
- Physical endurance of natives 10
- Pia, or scholar 71, 80
- Pirongia, Fairy folk of 221
- Pito o Watea,—The equator 36
- Place name containing 45 letters 369
- Place names brought from Hawaiki 369
- Pleiades greeted 284, 385
- Pleiades Year 385
- Plundering as a mode of fining 359
- Po, Te 94, 323
- Poautinitini 107
- Poha, a domestic vessel 423
- Pohatu-roa at Atiamuri 205
- Poho o Hinepae, a whare wananga 67
- Pokanga taringa, or ear piercing 407
- Polygamous marriages 447
- Polynesian communities in Melanesia 24
- Polynesian homeland (See Hawaiki. Irihia)
- Polynesian sojourn at Tawhiti-nui 22
- Polynesian sojourn at Tawhiti-roa 22
- Polynesian voyagers 15, 20, 24, 31, 36, 38, 48, 51, 55
- Polynesian voyagers at Pae-kakariki 55
- Polynesian voyagers return to Polynesia 55
- Polynesians and Mouriuri intermarry 58
- Polynesians attack Mouriuri 59, 60
- Polynesians into Pacific, Advent of 20, 22
- Polynesians leave Irihia, the homeland 22
- Polynesians, Virile character of 63
- Pomum Adami, Origin of 119
- Porotai—A strange folk 224
- Portents (See Omens)
- Post-mortem punishment not a Maori belief 326
- Pottery unknown to Maori 424
- Pouakai—A fabulous bird, or the moa 195, 207
- Pou aronui—Boundary marks 395
- Poumatua—Title of chieftainship 348
- Pounamu offspring of Tangaroa (See Greenstone) 164
- Pou rahui—Warning to trespassers 391, 392
- Pourangahua, Legend of 207
- Pourangahua sails to Polynesia 208
- Poutere-rangi—The meeting place of spirits 118, 320
- Poutini and greenstone 164
- Poutiriao—Guardians of the universe 104
- Poutiriao of tuahu 291page 510
- Poutiriao report to whatukura 105
- Presents 385, 424, 456, 458, 472
- Priests (See Tohunga)
- Priests faced sun when performing rites 247
- Priests, First grade 244
- Priests from Polynesia 245
- Priests paid for services 246
- Priests, Powers of 266
- Priests, Second grade 244
- Priests, Third grade 244
- Primal offspring (of Rangi and Papa) 93, 97, 130
- Primal offspring—What they represent 97
- Primal sin 479
- Primogeniture 347, 348, 351, 477
- Proverbs, aphorisms, mottoes, etc. 72, 114, 120, 151, 163, 176, 198, 203, 220, 283, 324, 378, 379, 383, 388, 394, 397, 400, 408, 413, 425, 427, 446, 450, 451, etc.
- Pu-whakahara, Te—Represents trees 176
- Puahou—Represents trees 176
- Puapua—A form of present 424
- Pua Reinga—Tree growing near entrance to underworld 317
- Puberty, Age of 450
- Public affairs—How arranged 353
- Public discussion an important usage 353
- Public opinion a disciplinary and strong force 356
- Puhaorangi—A denizen of the heavens 102
- Puhi females 350, 450
- Puhi, the eel 141
- Puhore—Unlucky acts, etc. 227
- Pukepoto—A blue paint 348
- Pu korero—Wise men 71
- Pumotomoto, Te—Entrance to supreme heaven 102
- Puna i Rangiriri, Te—Origin of fish 155
- Punarua—Having two wives 449
- Punawaru or puwawau—Spirit voices 213
- Punaweko—Origin of land birds 97, 114, 176
- Punaweko produces an egg 114
- Punctilios 372, 376, 424, 437, 440
- Punishment of soul not a Maori belief 357
- Pure rite 100, 102, 103, 107, 116, 288, 321
- Putoto—A forbear of natural objects 163
- Puwawau—A spirit voice 213
- Pu-whakahara, Te—Origin of hardwood trees 99, 114
- Quarrels 334
- Quipu mnemonics known to Maori 50
- Quipu device employed by lovers 462
- Quiros and his theory 40page 511
- Rahui—A prohibitory institution 390
- Rain as tears of Rangi 96
- Rain—How averted 161
- Rainbow as a path to heavens 161
- Rainbow gods and agriculture 133
- Rainbow mountain moves north 205
- Rainbow myths 139, 156, 159, 227
- Rainbow personified 99, 156, 175, 237
- Rakahore personifies rock 154, 155, 163
- Rakahore and fire 108
- Rakahore defends the Earth Mother 154, 163
- Rakaiora personifies lizard 177, 238
- Raka-maomao, a wind personification 97, 152
- Rake-pohutukawa 320
- Ra kura—The red sun 109, 131
- Rangahua personifies stones 154, 163
- Rangatira class 346
- Rangi (See Sky Parent)
- Rangi and Papa, All things sprang from 128
- Rangi and Papa, Children of (See Primal offspring) 130
- Rangi and Papa, Origin of 86, 93
- Rangi and Papa separated 96
- Rangiatea—Abode of Io, the Supreme Being 89
- Rangiatea church at Otaki 66
- Rangiatea isle 49
- Rangiatea School of Learning 66
- Rangi-haupapa, the magic cloak 171
- Rangimatoru canoe 56
- Rangitahua or Sunday Island 31
- Rangitaiki and Waikato rivers—A fable 210
- Rangitane tribe 54
- Rangitatau at Irihia 322
- Rangi-te-auria School of Learning 67
- Rangi tuhaha, The—The bespaced heavens 88
- Rangi-uia, expert of Whare wananga 84
- Rank, Social 345
- Raorao nui a Watea—The ocean 155
- Raparapa-te-uira—Abode of Thunder Maid 175
- Rara-taunga-rere—Represents fertility in vegetable world 176
- Ra ririki—The little suns 110
- Raro—The lower world 174
- Rarohenga—Underworld 317, 324
- Rarotonga—New Zealand voyage 31
- Rarotongan knowledge of Io 90
- Rata and rotu 334
- Rata and tree felling 165
- Rata—A son of Hine-tu-a-hoanga 165
- Rata, Voyage of to far land 126
- Rat trapping 254page 512
- Rauroha, Te—Home of Io in uppermost heaven 89
- Raw eaters 167, 173, 206
- Ra-wheoro, Te, School of Learning 67, 84
- Reception of visitors (See Visitors) 375, 384
- Rehia, Mt. 203
- Rehua 99, 102, 176, 330
- Rehua and forest 114
- Rehua and inanga 129
- Rehua and koko bird 136
- Rehu o Tainui—Evolution of a war god 242
- Reinga, Te—Leaping place of spirits 315, 316, 317
- Relationship, Terms denoting 362
- Religion and religious beliefs 233
- Religious activities of individual 233
- Religious beliefs of Maori 232
- Reptiles must be viviparous 114
- Rerenge wairua (See Reinga. Rarohenga. Tahekeroa.) 316
- Rerenoa produced plants 114
- Right and left sides (See Left) 227
- Rimu ki Motau (See Reinga.) 317
- Ririno, Te—Canoe from Polynesia 56
- Riri whenua—Quarrels over land 399
- Rites performed in open 235, 288
- Rites performed in state of nudity 266
- Rites performed fasting 266
- Rites performed in water (See Aspersion. Immersion. Water) 267
- Rite performed over a seer 284
- Ritual formulæ (See Invocations. Karakia)
- River myths 210
- Rohe of the underworld 148, 323
- Rohe and Maui 148
- Roiho and Roake, attendants of Io 97, 105
- Rona the Tide Controller 156
- Rona and the moon 97, 110, 112, 134
- Rongo 236
- Rongo and agriculture 131
- Rongo and fertility 105
- Rongo and the moon 131, 279
- Rongo in Polynesia 132
- Rongo of the waters 132
- Rongo the dark haired 135
- Rongo-a-tau and kumara 133
- Rongo-i-amo 160
- Rongokako returns to Polynesia 55
- Rongomai 133, 160, 175, 238
- Rongomai and agriculture 133
- Rongomai and Pani 133
- Rongomai-tu-waho 105
- Rongo-marae-roa 132, 374page 513
- Rongo-ma-Tane—A dual deity 130, 131, 132, 236, 281
- Rongo-ma-Uenga 132
- Rongo-nui 133
- Roroku-o-te-rangi 101
- Rotarota, or signalling 440
- Rotu and rata, Application of 334
- Rotu moana charm 334
- Rua represents knowledge 66, 177
- Rua i te horahora personifies knowledge 177
- Rua i te pukenga personifies knowledge 101, 301, 320
- Rua i te whaihanga personifies knowledge of artisan 177
- Rua te pupuke personifies knowledge 66
- Ruahine or priestess 261, 271
- Rua-iti and Rua-tupo—Magic rites 332
- Rua kanapu—Summer lightning 161
- Ruakapanga traps a moa 61, 207
- Rua Kenana, the “New Messiah” 127
- Rua koha—Ominous lightning 161
- Rua-kumea—Hales souls to underworld 325
- Ruamano—Sea god 195
- Rua o te moko 194
- Ruarangi and the fairy folk 221
- Ruatapu and Paikea 149
- Ruatau—Attendant of Io 99, 100, 104
- Ruatea remains at Rarotonga 52
- Rua-toia—Hales souls to underworld 325
- Rua torino and Rua haeroa—Magic rites 293, 322
- Ruaumoko—Personified form of volcanic action and earthquakes 99, 100, 167, 175, 237, 409
- Ruaumoko abides with the Earth Mother 100
- Ruaumoko assails mankind 106
- Ruaumoko dwells in underworld 108
- Ruawahia, Mt.—How it was cleft 205
- Ruawharo of Takitumu 245
- Rukutia and Tu Te Koropanga 174
- Rupe or Maui-mua 176
- Rupe and Rehua 136
- Ruruhi-kerepo—An ogress 212
- Sails, Canoe 30
- Sails, Lateen 26, 31
- Saliva employed in magic 274
- Saliva restores wounded person 275
- Saliva, Superstitions concerning 226
- Salute, The native (See Hongi)
- Sandfly and Mosquitoe attack Man—A fable 214
- Sand Maid defends the Earth Mother 154
- Sandstone personified 163, 165
- Saurian monsters in Maori myth 186, 189page 514
- Sea birds, Origin of 156
- Sea monsters (See Ruamano, Marakihau) 195, 196
- Sea of Marama in Eastern Polynesia 48
- Seasons, Guardians of 105
- Seasons personified 110, 175
- Seasons (See Maruaroa. Orongonui)
- Seaweed vessels 423
- Second sight (See Matakite) 240, 241
- Seers 240, 241
- Seer, Initiatory rite over a 284
- Semblance of an object or quality employed in rites 311
- Senses of natives 10
- Sex, Curious views concerning 294, 361
- Sex in natural phenomena 92
- Sex, Origin of male 113
- Scapegoat performance 267
- Scholars of School of Learning. Titles of 71
- School of Learning 64
- School of Learning—Address to scholars 79
- School of Learning, Concluding rite of 78, 79
- School of Learning, Conduct of 71
- School of Learning—Examination of scholars 74, 78
- School of Learning—Introduction of writing 81
- School of Learning—Its objects 71
- School of Learning of South Island 80
- School of Learning, Origin of 66
- School of Learning, Ritual of 72, 73, 75, 78, 79, 82
- School of Learning, Stone seats in 72, 78
- Scott, Dr. J. H., On Maori crania 3
- Shellfish, Origin of 155
- Shellfish—Strife between species—A fable 155
- Shrines, Temporary—How used 283
- Sick, Treatment of 12
- Sickness (See Epidemics) 303
- Signals and signs 439, 440
- Singing 409
- Singing at night unlucky 228
- Sitting, Modes of 7, 436
- Skulls of dead serve as guardians and fertilising agents 393, 394
- Sky and Earth, Origin of 86
- Sky Parent and Earth Mother separated 96
- Sky Parent clothed in clouds 109
- Sky Parent (See Rangi)
- Sleep 228
- Sleep caused by magic spell 210
- Sleeper must not be abruptly wakened 228
- Sleeping in open 436
- Smoke signalling 440
- Sneezing 115page 515
- Snow Children 152
- Social classes 345, 351
- Social life 17
- Social meetings 379, 384, etc.
- Social organisation 340
- Social progress, Stage of attained by Maori 342
- Social unit 341
- Social usages 339, etc.
- Solstice, Winter 110, 322
- Songs 409, etc.
- Songs of Mataora 170
- Songs of Sandfly Folk, etc. 215
- Soul (See Ata. Wairua)
- Soul from Supreme Being 115
- Soul chooses its future home 315
- Soul destroyed by magic 70
- Soul leaves body during dreams 228
- Soul of dead protected by ex-Dawn Maid 118, 119
- Soul of dying despatched to spirit world 303
- Soul, post mortem refinement of 303
- Soul traverses path of setting sun 320
- Souls of dead enter Hawaiki-nui 321
- Souls of dead leave this world 316
- South Island, Occupation of 61
- South Island Schools of Learning 80
- Speech-making 377
- Spiders convey woman to heavens. A fable 211
- Spirit voices 213
- Spirit world 104, 173
- Spirit world and homeland confused 319
- Spirit world, Celestial 314, 321, 326
- Spirit world in west 319
- Spirit world, Subterranean 317, 323, 324, 326
- Spirit world, Two distinct 313
- Spirits Bay, whence spirits of dead depart to homeland and spirit world 317
- Spirits of dead assemble at Hawaiki-nui 104
- Spirits of dead forget this world 321
- Spirits of dead protect descendants 302
- Spirits of dead seen by seers 301
- Spirits of dead troublesome 303
- Spirits of land placated 199
- Spirits of stillborn children (See Atua kahu)
- Spiritual concepts 298
- Star Children placed on breast of Rangi 111
- Star-gazing experts 33
- Star lore (See Heavenly bodies) 92, 111
- Star worship 276, 279
- Stars 129, 133, 248page 516
- Stars and sun as compass of voyagers 33
- Stars, Invocation to 279
- Stars, Maori knowledge of 248
- Stars, Origin of 109, 110
- Stars related to sun and moon 109, 110
- Stars (See Pleiades)
- Starting points of voyagers 36
- Stature, Maori 7
- Steer oars 31
- Stillborn child, Spirit of developes into an atua 241
- Stockade breached to admit visitor 378, 379
- Stomach as seat of emotions 312
- Stone boiling 420
- Stone “certificates” of proficiency 78
- Stone mauri or shrines 305
- Stone seats in School of Learning 72, 78
- Stone swallowed by scholar in School of Learning 71, 75, 76
- Stone tipua or enchanted stones 201, 202
- Stones, mana possessing (See Mauri. Sacred Stones. Whatu kura) 394
- Stones of School of Learning 67, 70, 74, 75, 77, 78
- Stones, Origin of 154, 162
- Stones, Personified forms of 163, 164
- Stones, Sacred (See Manea. Mauri. Whatu kura) 67, 89
- Stones, Unlucky to see certain kinds of 227
- Storms—How met at sea 33
- Summer Maid 110
- Sun cult concealed in personification 276
- Sun feast 278
- Sun, moon, stars, Origin of 109, 110
- Sun personified 131, 132, 174
- Sun sends fire to mankind 151
- Sun worship 72, 75, 275
- Sunset and death 319
- Sunday Island, or Rangitahua 31
- Superstition as cohesive and disciplinary force 357
- Superstition as a clog on advancement 226, etc.
- Superstition versus courage 15
- Supreme Being, Maori concept of (See under 10) 234
- Survival of the fittest 10
- Swimming 206
- Symbols of gods (See Aria) 72
- Tahā rakau—A wooden vessel 424
- Taharakau and his sayings 355
- Taharua. Consanguineous relationship 344
- Tahekeroa—Descent to underworld 317, 321
- Tahi o te rangi—The maroon of White Island 198
- Tahitian knowledge of 10 90page 517
- Tahora nui atea—Term for the ocean 109, 155
- Tahu personifies food 176, 383
- Tahuaroa; the earth; the ocean 97, 103, 155, 168, 322
- Taku-makaka-nui, the west wind 153
- Tahu-mawake-nui, the east wind 153
- Tahurangi, a forest folk 221
- Talisman buried in house 70
- Talismanic stones (See Manea, Mauri, Whatu) 305
- Taiao; the upper world; this world of life 171
- Tail of the Scorpion 111
- Tainui canoe 56, 64
- Tai o Ruatapu—a deluge myth 149
- Tai whetuki, the House of Death 66, 106, 107, 330
- Takaaho—Origin of sharks 177
- Takahi mana, or belittling prestige 389
- Takanga o te ra—Solstices 110, 322
- Takapau wharanui—Nuptial couch 474
- Takero—A star 129
- Takiri—Ominous twitchings 227
- Takitumu canoe 56, 64
- Takoto-wai—Forbear of stones, etc. 163
- Takuahi—Fireplace, etc. 291
- Tama, the ogre of Hikurangi (See Tama-i-waho) 210
- Tama-ahua and expedition to obtain greenstone 165
- Tama-ahua and the kura hau awatea 247
- Tama-ahua returns to Polynesia 55, 246
- Tama-i-waho of Hikurangi 208, 210
- Tama-kai-moana clan of Maunga-pohatu 195
- Tamanuhiri's blood renders canoe tapu 255
- Tama-nui-te-ra—Honorific name of sun 131, 276
- Tamaoa—Pollution of tapu 254, 257
- Tamarau Waiari recites his genealogy in three days 344
- Tamarau (atua) 238
- Tamarau flies through space from Arorangi 211
- Tamatea-ariki-nui 159, 388
- Tama-te-uira—Personified form of lightning 99, 105, 161
- Tama-uawhiti—A name for the sun 174
- Tane, Activities of 99
- Tane and sun 72, 130, 132, 236, 276
- Tane and the wananga 101, 103
- Tane ascends to twelfth heaven 101, 102
- Tane ascends Maunganui 100
- Tane as origin of knowledge 65, 71, 72
- Tane as forbear of man 93
- Tane begets birds and trees 114
- Tane forms earthern image of woman 115
- Tane, Hidden home of 133
- Tane introduces light into world 111
- Tane-i-te-hiringa 66page 518
- Tane-mataahi 176
- Tane meets 10 103
- Tane, Names of 99, 100, 102
- Tane, Progeny of 154, 155, 163
- Tane returns to earth 103
- Tane supervises poutiriao 105
- Tane takes Hina to wife 131
- Tane takes Hine-ahu-one to wife 115, 116
- Tane the Fertiliser 113, 132
- Tane versus Whiro contest (Light v. Darkness) 99, 105
- Tane-matau—Thunder personification 175
- Tane-te-waiora 111, 138, 320
- Tane-rore—Personifies a weather condition 111
- Tānga ngutu—Lip tattooing 407
- Tangaroa 183, 237
- Tangaroa and fish 155
- Tangaroa as a demiurge 135
- Tangaroa, Fair-haired progeny of 135
- Tangaroa-whakamau-tai 97, 156
- Tangi—Custom of wailing 376
- Tangi-apakura canoe 54
- Tangiwai var. of greenstone, Origin of 165
- Taniwha, or monsters 186
- Taniwha at Tahiti 191
- Taniwha of Kaipara 187
- Taniwha, Origin of 163
- Taniwha rescue seafarers 196
- Tapairu—Females of high rank 346, 349, 407, 451
- Tapiri-Te, Fight at in 1865 241
- Tapora mode of cooking 421
- Tapu 178, 193, 221, 268, 272
- Tapu birds 255
- Tapu demands nudity (See Nudity) 71
- Tapu fires (See Ahi. Fires) 257, 261, 267, 268, 270
- Tapu fish 255
- Tapu knowledge—Classification of 69
- Tapu, Loss of, causes deterioration or death 82, 229, 240, 247, 388
- Tapu names 254, 257, 369
- Tapu of burial places 254
- Tapu of canoes 33, 255
- Tapu of cultivations 256
- Tapu of death 252, 253
- Tapu of esoteric knowledge 65
- Tapu of houses 256
- Tapu of human head 257, 273
- Tapu of Io was intense 87
- Tapu of forest 253, 254
- Tapu of women 406
- Tapu, Origin of 251page 519
- Tapu pa deserted 253
- Tapu persons ate alone 256
- Tapu persons could not touch food with hands 256
- Tapu persons fed by attendants 78
- Tapu places 252
- Tapu, Removal of 79, 81, 115, 258, 272, 280
- Tapu, Restrictions of 273
- Tara settles at Wellington 54
- Taranaki—A place in subterranean world 170
- Taranaki, Mt., migrates 204
- Taranga—Parent of Maui 142
- Tasks of men and women 400, 401
- Tatau o te Po—Gates of Death 118, 119
- Tattooing 407
- Tattooing, Designs of 172
- Tattooing of women 172
- Tattooing, Origin of 169, 174
- Taua muru 359
- Taua muru wahine 472
- Tauira or scholars (See Pia. Taura. Tohunga) 71, 80
- Taukata captures Tama-i-waho 210
- Taumaha charm recited over food 424
- Taumata atua—Mediumistic shrines 247, 281
- Taumata i Haumu—Resting place of spirits 316
- Taunaha whenua—Land claiming 400
- Taupo mountains migrate 204
- Tāura, or scholars (See Pia. Tauira. Tohunga) 71, 80
- Tauru-rangi—One of the Poutiriao, or guardians 320
- Tauwhare-kiokio produces tree ferns 114, 176
- Tawa kernels as a food supply 430
- Tawa mutu—The chasm of death 317
- Tawaro-nui and volcanic action 175
- Tawhaitari—A huge mythical bird 208
- Tawhaki and lightning 161
- Tawhirimatea personifies wind 97, 152, 237
- Tawhiri-rangi vessel reaches New Zealand 41
- Tawhiti-nui, Land of 22
- Tawhiti-roa, Land of 22
- Tawhito—Generative organs 294
- Tawhito-o-te-rangi, Mt., in home land 203
- Temples unknown in Maoriland 288
- Teeth of Maori 3, 10
- Theft 311
- Theft—How detected 311
- Theft—How punished 336
- Theocratic nature of government 357
- Thought, Terms for 313
- Thunder caused to sound by priests 80
- Thunder, Names for 80page 520
- Thunder personified 175
- Tide controllers 97, 156
- Tiepa platform for offerings to gods 288
- Tihi o Manono 103, 112, 320
- Tiki 140, 141
- Tiki and Hina 135
- Tiki as offspring of Hina 135
- Tiki created by Tu 121
- Tiki, Death of 116
- Tiki fashioned by Tane 136
- Tiki makes man 115, 116
- Tiki slays phallic eel 479
- Tiki-te-po-mua 478
- Tiki-tol (Tiki-toro) at Mortlock Isles 141
- Tiki—Mediumistic images 281
- Tiki pendant and Tiki = phallus 294
- Tiki pendant—First made 136
- Tiki pendant a fructifying symbol 136
- Tini o Maruiwi—Aborigines 44
- Tini o Matangi-nui—Winds 153
- Tini o Te Hakuturi—Forest folk 224
- Tini o Te Petipeti—Weird folk of ocean spaces 196
- Tini o Toi, the mixed race of New Zealand 59
- Tinirau and fish 155
- Ti para and Ti tawhiti (Cordyline sp.) 427
- Tipi a Houmea—A magic rite 336
- Tipua—Uncanny objects 198
- Tipua logs 202
- Tipua-o-te-rangi, a mountain of homeland 203
- Tira and toko—Ritual staffs 293
- Tira māka—Spirits 224, 302
- Tira ora rite 121, 293
- Titikura charm 337
- Tiwaiwaka of underworld 169, 171
- Toa-rangitahi of Rarotonga meets Toi 49
- Tohi rite 100
- Tohi tamariki rite 413
- Tohi ururangi rite 116
- Tohunga (See Priests) 241, 242
- Tohunga ahurewa 78, 244
- Tohunga, Alleged powers of 51, 246, 330
- Tohunga and missionaries 247
- Tohunga, Duties of 245, 250
- Tohunga, Education of 71
- Tohunga kehua, or shaman 244
- Tohunga makutu, or wizard 82, 244, 336
- Tohunga—Meaning of term 243
- Tohunga necessarily tapu 247
- Tohunga, Office of 245page 521
- Tohunga puri 336
- Tohunga ruanuku 336
- Tohunga tarai waka 244
- Tohunga taua 247
- Tohunga, Titles of 244, 247
- Tohunga tohi ora 247
- Tohunga tuahu 244
- Tohunga tuakoi 247
- Tohunga waitohi 247
- Tohunga whaihanga 244
- Tohunga whakairo 244
- Toi ariki—A title of rank 348
- Toi huarewa—Whirlwind path to heavens 101, 321
- Toi-kai-rakau—An immigrant from Polynesia 49, 56
- Toi-kai-rakau and his offspring 48
- Toi-kai-rakau discovers Chatham Isles 49
- Toi-kai-rakau lands at Tamaki (Auckland) 49
- Toi-kai-rakau meets Toa rangitahi of Rarotonga 49
- Toi-kai-rakau reaches Rarotonga 48
- Toi-kai-rakau reaches Samoan Isles 48
- Toi-kai-rakau sails for Aoteoroa (N.Z.) 49
- Toi-kai-rakau seeks Whatonga 48
- Toi-kai-rakau settles at Whakatane 49
- Toi-kai-rakau tribes 59, 60, 63
- Toi o nga rangi—Uppermost of twelve heavens 314
- Toiora—Spiritual welfare, etc. 308
- Toka a Houmea—A famed rock at Whakatane 205
- Toka a Rauhotu—A rock at Cape Egmont 204
- Toki a Tapiri canoe in Auckland Museum 28
- Toki Puanga—An expert in Maori lore 84
- Toko and tira—Ritual impedimenta 293
- Toko—Its double meaning 96
- Toko—Supports of heavens 153
- Tongans reach New Caledonia 24, 30
- Tonga-nui-kaea—Forbear of Wind Children 152, 175
- Tongatonga—The Milky Way 110
- Toro i waho—Origin of climbing plants 176
- Travellers 353, 372
- Travellers, Offerings made by 200
- Travellers, Rite to protect 268, 269
- Travellers' tales 40
- Travelling 378, 436
- Tree causes conception 297
- Tree felling 128, 129, 275
- Tree felling rite 167
- Tree ferns, Origin of 114
- Trees, Origin of 114
- Trees personified 176
- Trees reserved in forest 391page 522
- Trees shelter fire 145
- Tribal communities 354
- Tribal history of no great interest 58
- Tribal lands 394
- Tribal members descended from common ancestor 340
- Tribal names (See Nomenclature) 344, 367
- Tribe an exclusive community 342
- Tribe, Composition of 340
- Tribe—Its welfare ever paramount 339, 342, 355
- Tribe, Membership of 340
- Tu of the war department 236
- Tu controls disease 105
- Tu creates Tiki 121
- Tuahiwi nui a Hine-moana 156
- Tuahu, or sacred places 280, 288, 333
- Tuahu, Names of 292
- Tuahu of South Island 290
- Tuahu tapatai 293
- Tuamatua—Origin of stone, etc. 154, 155, 163
- Tuapa rite 170
- Tuatara shall produce eggs 114
- Tuhi mareikura—Face painting 348
- Tuhoe tribe 344
- Tu-kapua—Represents clouds 99, 105, 162
- Tu-kapua produced the tawai tree 114
- Tukohu mode of cooking 421
- Tu-korako—Lunar rainbow? 139
- Tuku wairua rite to despatch soul to spirit world 303
- Tumahana usage—A gift of food 382
- Tu-mātāika—Personified form of parrot 176
- Tu-matapongia charm causes invisibility 337
- Tu-matauenga—Tutelary deity and war lord 121
- Tumoana returns to Polynesia 55
- Tumu whakarae—A high class title 345
- Tuna and Puhi 177
- Tuna and the Snake of Darkness 108
- Tuna, Hina, and Maui 139, 140
- Tuna slain by Maui 140
- Tunui-a-te-ika—Atua and personification 238
- Tunuku and Rehua 114
- Tuoro and Hore—Mythical monsters 194
- Tupai 104
- Tupai and Tane 115, 116
- Tupai as a guardian 105
- Tupai ascends Maunganui 100
- Tupai—A personified form of lightning 161
- Tupai of Takitumu 245
- Tupu and tuputupu (See Uruuru whenua) 309
- Tupua (See Tipua)page 523
- Turehu or forest folk 167, 173, 219
- Turehu appeased by root diggers 220
- Turuma, or latrine 290
- Tutae-poroporo, the man eating-monster of Whanganui 193
- Tu-tamure and his magic spring 274
- Tutara-kauika, the right whale 177, 196
- Tutaua, the enchanted log of Waikare-moana 202
- Tu-te-aniwaniwa, the abode of Whiro 100
- Tu-te-hurutea—Origin of taniwha or monsters 187
- Tu Te Koropanga and Rukutia of Polynesia 174
- Tutoro-whenua and Haumia 114
- Tutu fruit—How prepared 430
- Tutunui, a being connected with fish 164
- Tutumaiao, a weird folk of the sea shore 224
- Tuwhirirau returns to Polynesia 55
- Twelve—A persistent number in Maori lore 88, 104, 106
- Twelve companies of denizens of heavens 88
- Twelve guardians of Wharekura 104
- Twelve heavens 88, 104
- Uenga, the Polynesian voyager 38
- Uenuku—Personified form of rainbow 99
- Uenuku and Ihu-parapara 159
- Uenuku and the Mist Maid 156
- Uenuku-rangi 159, 237
- Uenuku-titi, the sea-nurtured maid 159, 160
- Uenuku-tuwhatu—Stone possessing fertilising powers 298
- Uetonga of Rarohenga 168, 173
- Uha, the female element, Search for 113
- Uhia, medium of Te Rehu-o-Tainui 242
- Umu-hiki—A ceremonial usage 271
- Umu kotore, or marriage feast 469
- Umu o Rongomai—Lunar craters? 133
- Umu pongipongi—A magic rite 271
- Umu potaka—Oven for ceremonial feast 271
- Umu pururangi—A rite to influence weather 271
- Umu ruahine—Oven for ceremonial feast 271
- Umu tamoe—A rite to weaken enemies 271, 334
- Umu tapu 271, 469
- Umu ti—Fire walking performance 270
- Umu tuakaha—A ceremonial oven 271
- Umu tukupara—A ceremonial oven 271
- Umu whakahoro—A tapu removing rite 81
- Umu whangai—A rite connected with offerings 272
- Underworld, The (See Rarohenga. Reinga. Taheke-roa) 118
- Underworld a realm of peace 170, 174
- Underworld, Denizens of 168, 173
- Universe created by Io 86
- Universal soul in nature 91page 524
- Unlucky acts 228, 229, etc.
- Upoko ariki—A superior title (See Ariki. Toi ariki. Tumu-whakarae) 348
- Upoko-roa—Personified form of comet 151
- Urinal—Ceremonial performance at 270
- Uru, Land of 21
- Uruao canoe—Tail of the Scorpion 111
- Uruhau pa at Island Bay, Wellington 228
- Urukehu—Fair-skinned, light-haired Maori type 7, 220, 362
- Uru-te-ngangana 97, 100, 105, 109, 110, 131
- Uruuru whenua—Placatory rite 199, 309
- Ushas, the dawn 123
- Vassals 354
- Vega (star) and agriculture 133
- Vegetation, Origin of 114
- Ventriloquism 248
- Vessels, Domestic (See Patua. Poha. Taha).
- Vessels of Polynesian voyagers 22, 26, 28, 30
- Vessels, Ceremony performed over 51
- Vessels placed in care of gods 51
- Villages, Fortified (See Pa) 7
- Villages, Fortified, of Mouriuri folk 44
- Visitors 456
- Visitors—How important persons were honoured 378
- Visitors, Reception of 375, 384
- Vivification of first woman 115
- Volcanic action, Cause of 100, 108
- Voyages from New Zealand to Polynesia 36
- Voyages, Hawaii to Tahiti 36
- Voyages of Polynesians (See Polynesian voyagers. Drift) 31
- Voyagers, Rite performed by 51, 321
- Voyagers, Sea stores of 34
- Voyagers steered by heavenly bodies and wave trend 33
- Vowel sounds in Maori speech 18
- Vrihia a name for India (See Irihia) 21
- Wahieroa—Personified form of comets 175
- Wahine ariki—High-caste women 348
- Wahi tapu (See Tuahu. Wai tapu) 293
- Wai haro—A preparation of hinau meal 430
- Waikare-moana 193, 201
- Waikato and Rangitaiki rivers race to sea—Fable 210
- Waimate canoe reaches New Zealand 54
- Wainui—Personified form of ocean 129, 154
- Wainui-atea—Personified form of ocean 153
- Waiora a Tane 136, 138, 316
- Waiora, The term 138
- Wai o Rongo 100, 102page 525
- Wai o Rongomai 102
- Wai-rarawa—A place name of Polynesia 323
- Wairua, or soul (See Ata. Soul. Spirit) 91, 199, 200, 299
- Wairua emanated from Io 115
- Wairua of man destroyed 333
- Wairua, Protection against 270
- Waitaha reaches New Zealand 56
- Wai tapu—Tapu waters at which rites were performed (Cf. Ahurewa. Tuahu. Wahi tapu) 75
- Waka marohi—Single canoes 54
- Waka o Tama-rereti 111
- Wananga—Its meaning 67
- Wananga acquired by Tane 101, 102
- War customs 310
- Ware or tutua class 346, 347
- War gods 236, 238, 241, 242, etc.
- Wars, Intertribal 64
- Waro rahui 392
- Watea—Personified form of space (See Atea) 92, 113, 132, 153, 155
- Watea separates sky and earth 99
- Watch viewed as an atua 229
- Water—How carried at sea 34
- Water, Origin of 163
- Water, Ritual use of (See Aspersion. Immersion) 267, 468
- Water the only beverage 434
- Waters of life (See Waiora a Tane).
- Waves of ocean, Personified forms of 142
- Wawau, Te, and volcanic phenomena 175
- Weaving, Origin of 171
- Wellington settled by a mixed people 54
- Weriweri declines to be tried for witchcraft 328
- “Werohia ki au”—A curious usage 463
- Wero i te ninihi 95
- Wero ngerengere—A magic spell 336
- Wero, or challenger 375
- Whai motu, a healing charm 337
- Whaitiri-papā—Personified form of thunder 175
- Whakaaro—Thought, etc. 313
- Whakahaehae—Ghosts 303
- Whakahoki pakuwha—Marriage customs 472
- Whakairo—Its meaning 169
- Whakaeo charm 274
- Whakaha rite 245, 389
- Whakamarama, or crescent symbol on native spade 139
- Whakamatiti magic spell 336
- Whakanoa—Removal of tapu (See under Tapu) 79, 258
- Whakaruaki, Te—A mythical monster 189
- Whakatane—First Polynesian settlement in Aotearoa 49
- Whakau rite 268page 526
- Whanau, or family group, the social unit 340, 343
- Whanau akaaka—The repulsive hordes of Whiro 102, 103
- Whanau a Te Arawaru—Shellfish 155
- Whanau kapua, the Cloud Children 112
- Whanau kehu a Tangaroa—Fair-haired folk 161
- Whanau mārama, the Children of Light 110
- Whanau mārama abide on Maunganui 111
- Whanau puhi, or Wind Children 101, 112, 153
- Whangai atua rite 279
- Whangai hau rite 310
- Whanga-nui-a-Tara—Wellington Harbour 54
- Whanui (The star Vega) and agriculture 133
- Whare kau po—A course of teaching 70
- Whare-kura—A school of learning (See below) 67, 80
- Whare-kura—Abode of Rongo 101
- Whare-kura of Hawaiki 290
- Whare-kura, Original 101, 104
- Whare maire—Black magic and its teaching 66, 67, 70, 330
- Whare motunau—A Mangaia custom 453
- Whare o Aitua—Female element inferior and dangerous 479
- Whare pakuwha—A marriage custom 471
- Whare porukuruku—Inferior teachings 330
- Whare potae—House of mourning 67, 476
- Whare purakau—A school of learning 80
- Whare takiura—A school of learning 67
- Whare wananga—A school of learning 65, 103
- Whare wananga, Famous 66, 67
- Whare wananga, Final sessions of 80, 84
- Whare wananga of Rarotonga 67
- Whare wananga, Sessions of 67
- Whare wananga (See School of Learning, etc.).
- Whata puaroa—A tapu place of rites 311
- Whata tapu—Platforms, etc., employed in rites 290
- Whatonga drifts to Rangiatea 48, 49
- Whatonga sails to seek Toi 50
- Whatonga reaches Rarotonga 51
- Whatonga sails for Aotearoa (New Zealand) 52
- Whatonga finds Toi at Whakatane 52
- Whatonga settles at Nukutaurua 54
- Whatu kai manawa—Tapu stones 77
- Whatu atua—Tapu stones 103
- Whatu kairangi—Tapu stones 75
- Whatu kura—Sacred stones 67, 89
- Whatu kura acquired by Tane 103
- Whatu kura a Tane 103
- Whatu kura a Tangaroa 103
- Whatukura—Denizens of the uppermost heaven 66, 88, 90, 99, 103
- Whatukura (See Mareikura).
- Whatukura—Title of a man of rank 345page 527
- Whatu puoro rangi—A tapu stone of School of Learning 77
- Whatu tamaua take—A tapu stone of School of Learning 87
- Whatu turuki—A tapu stone of School of Learning 78
- Whatu whakahoro—A tapu stone of School of Learning 75
- Whatu whakatara—A tapu stone of School of Learning 77
- Whatu whangai—A tapu stone of School of Learning 75
- Whirlwind conveys soul to heavens 321
- Whiro te tipua—Personified form of evil and darkness 237
- Whiro and Hine nui te Po 323
- Whiro and Ruaumoko afflict mankind 106
- Whiro attempts to scale heavens 101
- Whiro descends to underworld 106
- Whiro, Offerings to 106
- Whiro represented by lizard 107
- Whiro the Thief 106
- Whiro and ahurangi—Terms denoting evil and good 285
- Whiro the Polynesian voyager 126, 411
- Whiro reaches New Zealand 56
- Whiro—Above two names confused 106
- Whistling disliked by natives 248
- White Island and its story 205
- Whiti-anaunau 118
- Widows 273
- Wind calabash 153
- Wind charms 153
- Wind Children 142, 152, 153, 162, 175
- Wind Children at Tihi o manono 112
- Wind Children convey Tane to heavens 101
- Wind Children rescue Tane from hordes of Whiro 102
- Wind House, The 103, 153
- Wind—Personified forms of (See Tawhirimatea. Raka-mao-mao. Tini o Matangi-nui) 152, 153, 175
- Winter Maid—Personified form of winter 110
- Winter solstice 322
- Wizards 244
- Wizards, Alleged powers of 330
- Woman carried off by forest denizens 219, 221
- Woman enters the world 115
- Woman evolved from reflection, First 478, 479
- Woman, Origin of 113, 115, 477
- Woman who ate her child's heart 213
- Women 374
- Women accompanied fighting forces 407
- Women destroy tapu 255
- Women, Disabilities of 406
- Women, Gait of 408
- Women, Garments of 408
- Women of eminence 353
- Women—Few reached New Zealand 58page 528
- Women, Tasks of 400, 401
- Women (See Kahurangi. Mareikura. Puhi. Ruahine. Tapairu, etc.).
- Wood carving 17
- World in primal darkness 93
- Written language unknown to Maori 65
- Year, The Maori (See New Year).
- Youths, Training of 394, 395