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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