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Maori Religion and Mythology Part 1

Index

page 413

Index

A

  • A, or Ha, and To, p. 160
  • Absolutory rites, 317, 318, 344, 346.
  • Abstraction, Maori power of, 34.
  • Addenda: matter in original, 392.
  • Adoration and placation, 24.
  • Adultery, origin of, 106.
  • Adzes, ceremonial stone, 388.
  • Adzes, tapu, 84.
  • Agriculture, human sacrifice connected with, 241.
  • Ahi amoamohanga: first-fruits rite, 323.
  • Ahi a Ue: subterranean fire, 325.
  • Ahi horokaka: ceremonial fire, 320.
  • Ahikomau: subterranean fire, 79, 115, 324.
  • Ahi mahitihiti, or testing-fire, 321.
  • Ahi manawa rite, 321, 383.
  • Ahi marae: ceremonial performance, 320, 324.
  • Ahi matini: a ceremony performed by fowlers, 321.
  • Ahi parapara: a ceremony performed by eel-fishers, &c., 322.
  • Ahi puaroa: a celestial phenomenon, 325.
  • Ahi purakau: a tree-felling rite, 322.
  • Ahi pure: a rite pertaining to exhumation, 323.
  • Ahi rau huka: a rite performed by fowlers, 322.
  • Ahi rokia: a charm employed by fowlers, 322.
  • Ahi tahito: subterranean fire, 79.
  • Ahi tahoka: a magic rite, 321.
  • Ahi taitai: a tapu ceremonial fire, 321.
  • Ahi tamawahine: a rite pertaining to agriculture, 323.
  • Ahi ta ngutu: a tattooing rite, 323.
  • Ahi tapairu: pertains to ceremonial feasts, 324.
  • Ahi tapu, 318. See also Ahi, &c.; Fire; Imu; Umu.
  • Ahi tapu in rites, 383, &c.
  • Ahi taumata: a magic rite, 321.
  • Ahi tipua: volcanic or subterranean fire, 325.
  • Ahi tirehurehu: a fire pertaining to the ka mahunu rite, 321.
  • Ahi torongu: a magic rite to destroy kumara pests, 323.
  • Ahi umuroa: volcanic or subterranean fire, 325.
  • Ahi whakaene: a magic rite, 323.
  • Ahi whakamatiti: a magic rite, 323.
  • Ahoaho o Tukapua, the Cloud House, 100, 394.
  • Ahua: the semblance of an object or quality, 220.
  • Ahumairangi: a sacred place, 396.
  • Ahurangi and whiro: terms denoting character, 301.
  • Ahurei: a sacred place, 274.
  • Ahurewa: a sacred place, 274.
  • Aitanga a Punga: insects and reptiles, 184.
  • Aitua: personified form of misfortune, 64, 77.
  • Aitupawa: a denizen of the uppermost heaven, 189, 198.
  • All gods are one, 158.
  • Altars. See Tuahu.
  • Amonga: offerings, 206, 222.
  • Amulets, 373.
  • Ancestor-worship, 140, 212.
  • Animatism, 40, 246.
  • Anthropomorphic deities, 40.
  • Ao, Te, represents light, 69, 70.
  • Ao-hore, Te: connected with clouds, &c., 168, 188.
  • Apa of twelve heavens: celestial beings, 74.
  • Aputahi-a-paoa: personifies thunder, 198.
  • Ara atua, or spirit-path, 336.
  • Arai-te-uru: a mythical sea-monster, 181.
  • Arawaru, Te: the parent of shell-fish, 77.
  • Ari: a rice-name known to Maori, 244.
  • Aria of gods: forms of incarnation, 190, 194, 207, 218.
  • Aruhe, or edible fern-roots. See Haumia.
  • Aspersion in rites, 343, 360, 367, 381. See also Immersion.
  • Atahu ceremony, 367. See also Shell-fish.
  • Atea, Vatea, and Watea: personified form of space, 66, 68, 183.
  • Atua (gods, demons, &c.) and their activities, 192.
    • as guardians, 197, 209.
    • brought on the vessel "Takitumu," 216.
    • carried by voyagers, &c., 215, 216.
    • confined in vessel, 216.
    • dread of, 140.
    • employed as messengers, 194, 209.
    • functions of, 210.
    • introduced from Polynesia, 215, 216.
  • Atua kahu, or cacodemons, 138, 192, 205, 206, 207, 208.
  • Atua kiato, 250.
  • Atua: meaning of term, 135, 136.
  • Atua ngau tangata: man-assailing demons, 205.
  • Atua
    • not always malevolent, 191.
    • of fourth class, 203.
    • of "Takitumu," 216, 407.
    • represented by material objects, 202. See also Aria.
    • results of offending, 210.
  • Atua toro: spirit-gods employed as messengers, 194, 209.page 414
  • Atua whiro: malignant demons, 164.
    • See also Mediums (Waka atua).
  • Awa moana rite, 388.
  • Awanui, a cacodemon, 208.

B

  • Baldness, origin of, 83.
  • Baptismal rite, 344. See also Tohi; Tua
  • Barbaric man deeply religious, 10.
  • Basket of Blessings obtained from sun, 171.
  • Baskets of Knowledge, 103, 110, 397. See also Kete.
  • Beneficent deities and their status, 51.
  • Bird snaring, 321.
  • Birds
    • employed as messengers, 367. See also Atahu.
    • employed in rites, 302, &c.
    • origin of, 104, 110, 119, 169, 398.
    • released in rites, 346, 362. See also Hurumanu; Punaweko.
  • Birth, ceremonies pertaining to, 357. See also Baptism; Tohi; Tua.
  • Birth, registration, primitive mode of, 362. See also Pou uekaha.
  • Birth, tree, 365. See also Iho o Kataka; Phallic stones; Cedar.
  • Bisexual beings, 63.
  • Blood offerings, 223, 224.
  • Bloodless offerings, 224.
  • Bones of dead employed in rites, 377.
  • Branchlets employed in ritual performances, 311, 318, 345, 360, 365, 366, 381.
  • Breath-inhaling as a ceremonial act, 303.
  • Breath of life, origin of, 121.
  • Burial: sitting, 375.
  • Burial: trussed, 375.
  • Burns, charms employed to cure, 373.

C

  • Cacodemons, 139. See also Atua kahu.
  • Cannibalism, 226.
  • Canoes and Tane, 172.
  • Canoe, human sacrifice for new, 235.
  • Canoe, rite performed over, at village latrine, 216.
  • Cedar of Gilgit causes conception, 352. See also Iho o Kataka.
  • Ceremonial swinging, 376.
  • Character, Maori, 35, 36.
  • Charms
    • curative, 372 on.
    • of a simple nature, 307.
    • to cause sleep, 393.
    • to control weather, 389, &c.
    • to cure choking, 372.
    • universally employed, 308. See also Invocations; Karakia.
  • Children dedicated to Supreme Being, 154.
  • Children of Rangi and Papa. See Offspring. See also Infants.
  • Choking, charm to cure, 372.
  • Christianity, borrowings of, 27.
  • Christianity: its present aspect, 29.
  • Civil law unknown in Maoriland, 38.
  • Cloud Children, the, 100.
  • Cloud House, the, 100, 394.
  • Colenso on Maori religion, 51.
  • Collection of ethnographical data, 11-12.
  • Comet-names, 198.
  • Comets personified, 198.
  • Communism: its effects, 36: is repressive, 36.
  • Conception caused by trees and stones, 351, 352, 365.
  • Confession and absolution in Maori ritual, 317.
  • Cook's remarks on Maori religion, 41, 42.
  • Cosmogonal tree, 62, 63.
  • Cosmogonic genealogies, 60, 61 on.
  • Cosmogonic myths, 55.
  • Creation of universe by Io, the Supreme Being, 63.
  • Cult of Io, 38, 142. See also Io.

D

  • Dancing, ceremonial, 348.
  • Darkness and evil personified in Whiro, 185.
  • Darkness, effects of, 113.
  • Dawn Maid, the, 125. See also Hinetitama; Hine-nui-te-po; Tane.
  • Dawn Maid opens the path of death, 129.
  • Death, 112.
  • Death
    • customs, &c., 370.
    • the Dawn Maid opens the path of, 129.
    • House of, 116.
  • Demiurges. See Io; Tane; Tangaroa; Tiki; Tu.
  • Demoniacal possession, 204, 205, 206, 374.
  • Demons. See Atua; Taniwha; Tipua.
  • Denizens of twelve heavens, 74, 107.
  • Diagnostic rites, 293, 294.
  • Disease
    • caused by evil spirits, 204, 205.
    • empirical treatment of, 185, 293, 370.
    • personified, 114.
  • Divination, 240, 251, 278, 361. See also Matakite; Papa.
  • Divinatory dancing, 299.
  • Divine possession, 207.
  • Divorce ritual, 86, 369.

E

  • Ea and Kurawaka, 120.
  • Earth Mother, the, 87.
    • And her children, 80.
    • Is passive, 122.
    • Overturning of, 87.
    • Reclaims her children, 88.
  • Earthquakes, cause of, 187.page 415
  • Earthquakes personified. See Ruaumoko.
  • Eel
  • Elements, controllers of, 106.
  • Empirical treatment of disease, 185, 293, 370.
  • Esoteric beliefs difficult to acquire, 11-12.
  • Europeans,
    • coming of, foretold, 300.
    • intrusion of, unsettles Natives, 34.
  • Evil,
    • origin of, 117, 163.
    • personified, 113.
    • spirits of Maori and Christain belief, 203.
  • Evolution of universe from chaos, 56-57.
  • Exhumation, 377, 378.
  • Exorcism, 295, 371.

F

  • Family
  • Fasting, 376.
  • Feasts, ceremonial, 327, 328, 342.
  • Female
    • element, quest of, 119.
    • sex, inferiority of, 120.
  • Fertility of seeds personified, 169.
  • Fiji, human sacrifice at, 234, 239.
  • Fire employed in ritual performances, 318.
  • Fire-generation, 85.
  • Fire generating
    • charms, 85, 320, 324.
    • sticks carried by travellers and voyagers, 217.
  • Fire
    • personified forms of, 188.
    • subterranean, 79. See also Ahi a Ue; Ahi komau; Ahi t hito.
  • Fire-walking, 326. See also Rakahore.
  • First-fruits offerings, 225.
  • Fish
    • first taken released, 335.
    • origin of, 106, 120. See also Sharks.
    • represented by Tangaroa and Tinirau, 180.
  • Fisherman, rites performed by, 386.
  • Folk-lore. See Taniwha; Personifications.
  • Food
    • as a protective agent, 378.
    • how freed from tapu, 378.
    • personified, 202.
    • products, cultivated, 176.
  • Forest lore, 321. See also Birds.

G

  • Genealogies, Maori, 48, 170, 171.
  • Genealogies included in ritual formulae, 348.
  • Generative organs, extraordinary powers of, 353, 354.
  • Ghosts, 138. How laid, 326.
  • God: meaning of term, 134, 135.
  • Gods, Maori, 38, 134.
    • Attitude of, towards man, 138.
    • Classification of, 139.
    • Departmental, 161.
    • Fourth class, 140, 211.
    • How influenced, 306.
    • Not permanently malevolent, 162, 163.
    • Offerings to, 383, 387. See also Atua; Offerings.
    • Placation of, 223. See also Offerings.
    • Spoke in whistling tone, 284.
    • That die, 203.
    • Third class, 190.
    • See also Atua; War gods.
  • Good and evil in all things, 113.
  • Gratitude: misconception concerning this quality, 36.
  • Great First Cause a Maori belief, 31.
  • Guardians of universe. See Poutiriao.
  • Guardians of villages, &c., 197.

H

  • Ha and Io, demiurgic beings, 160.
  • Haere, a rainbow deity, 197.
  • Hair as aria of soul, 335.
  • Hair as a medium in magic, &c., 329, 333, 334, 335, 374.
  • Hair-cutting
  • Hair
    • offerings of, to gods, 331.
    • origin of fair, 101.
    • singed, 332.
  • Hakari, or sun feast, 342.
  • Hallucination, 207.
  • Haronga-rangi, 368.
  • Hau, or vital aura of man, 382.
  • Hauhauaitu, or nervousness, how cured, 353.
  • Haumia: a personification, 184.
  • Hawaiki
    • application of term, 107.
    • of homeland, 107.
    • or homeland, various names for, 107.
  • Hawaikinui, 107, 401.
  • Headache, how cured, 373, 374.
  • Heavenly bodies
    • 107. See also Moon; Stars; Sun.
    • are in first heaven, 73.
    • arranged by Tane, 90.
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  • Heavens
    • a series of nine, 182.
    • a series of ten, 72.
    • a series of twelve, 73.
    • denizens of, 74.
    • names of, 73.
  • Hell: its invention and the effects thereof, 29, 30.
  • Hell, Maori erroneously credited with belief in, 42.
  • High gods of low races, 155.
  • Hika: double meaning of term, 319.
  • Hina
    • and eel (Tuna), 350.
    • and Rongo, 178, 341.
    • and Rongo are one, 178-179.
    • and Tangaroa, 182.
  • Hine-ahu-one, the Earth-formed Maid, 67, 122, 123, 403.
  • Hine-a-tauira, a daughter of Tane, 125.
  • Hine-i-tapeka personifies subterranean fire, 188.
  • Hine-kapua, the Cloud Maid, 125, 198.
  • Hine-makohu, the Mist Maid, 114 See also Mist Maid.
  • Hine-maunga, the Mountain Maid, 166.
  • Hine-moana
    • the Ocean Maid, 77, 93, 108, 181.
    • a granddaughter of Tane, 125.
    • parents of, 166.
  • Hine-nui-te-po of the underworld, 128, 129.
  • Hine-puia personifies volcanoes, 188.
  • Hine-raumati, the Summer Maid, 181.
  • Hine-rau-angiangi, 125.
  • Hine-rau-wharangi and vegetation, 125, 126, 403.
  • Hine-takurua, the Winter Maid, 181.
  • Hine-te-iwaiwa (Hina) and moon, 358, 360.
  • Hine-te-uira, the Lightning Maid, 125, 198.
  • Hine-tinaku, 358.
  • Hine-titama
    • (the Dawn Maid) and Ruaumoko, 116.
    • descends to underworld, 128.
    • See also Dawn Maid.
  • Hine-tu-a-hoanga, the Sandstone Maid, 166, 168.
  • Hine-uku, the Clay Maid, 188.
  • Hinutohu, Te, a sister of Tangaroa, 79.
  • Hinutohu, Te, and Ruaumoko, 392.
  • Hirihiri rite, 375.
  • Hirihiri taua rite, 353-354.
  • Hoa rakau charm, 379.
  • Hoa tapuwae charm, 385
  • Hono-i-wairua: meeting-place of souls of dead, 107, 401.
  • House, human sacrifice for new, 231.
  • Huaki-pouri: abode of Tane, 86.
  • Hui-te-ananui: abode of Tangaroa, 181.
  • Human sacrifice, 222, 228.
    • At Cook Islands, 233.
    • Connected with agriculture, 241.
    • For divinatory purposes, 240.
    • For new canoe, 235.
    • For new house, 231.
    • For new pa (fortified village), 236.
  • Hurihanga a Mataaho: overturning of Earth Mother, 87.
  • Hurihanga takapau: tapu-removing rite, 384.
  • Hurumanu: origin of sea-birds, 109, 169-170.
  • Huru-mawake: the east wind, 368.
  • Huru-nuku: the north wind, 368.
  • Hypnotism, 268.

I

  • Idolatory unknown, 247.
  • Ihiihi: signification of term, 189.
  • Iho o Kataka: a tree that caused conception, 351.
  • Ihorangi, Te: personified form of rain, 77, 81, 108.
  • Iho tamariki: umbilical cord, 336. Disposal of, 359, 370. See also Pito.
  • Iho taua ritual, 381.
  • Ihu-parapara and Uenuku: a myth, 196.
  • Ikaroa, Te: the Milky Way, 91, 110.
  • Images, 247, 249, 255.
  • Images, Moriori, 254.
  • Immersion in rites, 302, 344, 345, 361. See also Aspersion; Water; Baptism.
  • Imu pararahi: a ceremonial oven, 328.
  • Indra, 350.
  • Infant dedicated to gods, 359.
  • Infant dedicated to Supreme Being, 364.
  • Insane person, rite performed over, 374.
  • Insects, &c., origin of, 166, 398.
  • Invocations, rare, 307, 308. See also Charms; Karakia.
  • Io
  • Io-mataaho, 153.page 417
  • Io
    • messengers of, 190.
    • names of, 144, 404.
    • no images of, no offerings to, 145, 222.
    • not borrowed from Christianity, 146, 147.
    • of the Hidden Face, 153.
    • the Parentless, 75, 145.
  • Io-wahine, 130.
  • Ira, Eel God, 349.
  • Ira atua and ira tangata, 61, 122, 124.
  • Irihia, land of, 111, 224.
  • Irirangi, land of, 224.
  • Island names, 57, 320.
  • Isolation causes variation, 56.

J

  • Jehovah as a tribal war-god, 158.
  • Journal of the Polynesian Society, 10.

K

  • Kahukura: personified form of rainbow, 193, 252.
  • Kahukura guides mariners, 194.
  • Kahu-parauri: a forbear of certain birds, 169.
  • Kahurangi and ariki, 74.
  • Kainga huna a Tane, or underworld, 171.
  • Kai popoa: tapu food for ceremonial purposes, 226, 377.
  • Kai ure rite, 353.
  • Karakia (charms, incantations, invocations, spells), 370 on.
  • Karakia atahu, or love charms, 367, 368.
  • Karakia
    • detached aspect of, 308.
    • empowered by mana, 312.
    • fire-generating, 320, 324.
    • genealogies inserted in, 348.
  • Karakia kai ure, 353.
  • Karakia maioha recited over infant, 127, 403.
  • Karakia
    • meaning of term, 307, 310.
    • misrendering of, is ominous, 314.
    • mode of recital, 314.
  • Karakia ngau paepae, 355.
  • Karakia oho rangi, to cause thunder, 361.
  • Karakia
    • principally incantations, 308.
    • repeated over a seer, 303, 410.
    • subjects of, 315.
  • Karakia tohi tamariki: baptismal formulae, 363.
  • Karakia toko: divorce ritual, 86, 369.
  • Karakia to render trees fertile, 169.
  • Karakia tuaumu: a spell, 380.
  • Karakia tuku, 358.
  • Karakia whakapiri, a marriage rite, 366.
  • Karakia whakato, to cause conception, 124, 126.
  • Karakia whakau, 379. See also Charms; Invocations; Kawa.
  • Karamu branch used in rites, 318.
  • Kaupeka slain, 84.
  • Kawa charms, 365.
  • Kawa ora. 336, 365.
  • Kehua. See Ghosts.
  • Kete aronui: the Basket of Good, 103, 397.
  • Kete o te wananga: Baskets of Knowledge, 397.
  • Kete pure: receptacle pertaining to a priest, 383.
  • Kete tuatea: the Basket of Evil, 103.
  • Kete tuauri: the Basket of Ritual, 103.
  • Kirimate: relatives of dead during period of mourning, 376.
  • Kite-flying as a divinatory act, 298.
  • Kiwa as guardian of the ocean, 108, 167.
  • Kiwa, Great Ocean of: a name for the wide seas, 77.
  • Knowledge and mana, how transmitted, 357.
  • Koangaumu rite, 379.
  • Kore, Te: chaos primeval, 60, 66.
  • Koromatua: ancestral spirits, 212.
  • Kouka of latrine represents death, 356.
  • Kumara: crop-lifting, 323.
  • Kumara "gods" (so called), 179, 257.
  • Kumara, mauri of, 243. See also Pani.
  • Kura hau awatea, or solar halo, 269.
  • Kurawaka: the mons veneris of the Earth Mother, 121.
  • Kuwatawata: janitor of entrance to underworld, 75, 77, 78, 107, 109, 128.

L

  • Land contracted, &c., by magic, 385.
  • Latrines, rites performed at, 276, 356
  • Left thigh in ritual performances, 326, 367, 372.
  • Light
    • different phases of, 89.
    • origin of, 89.
    • sprang from Darkness, 89.
    • Darkness contest, 111.
  • Lightning gods, 198.
  • Lightning personified, 198.
  • Linga gods, 165.
    • Annointed with oil, 165.
    • Covered with black cloth, 165.
  • Lizards, 184.
    • as guardians, 210.
    • and kotipu, 323.
    • and Rakaiora, 253.
    • as representing spirit-gods, 207, 219.
    • origin of, 166.
    • represent Whiro, 185.
    • to be viviparous, 119.
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  • Love charms, 345.
  • Luck stone or talisman of pa, 197.
  • Lustral rites, 318. See also Rites; Aspersion; Immersion; Water.

M

  • Magic, 187, 245, 268, 326, 337, 338, 352, 372.
  • Magic and religion, 15.
  • Mahora-nui-atea: the great ocean, 101, 395.
  • Mahora-nui-atea as a personification, 66.
  • Mahutonga of Kurahaupo, 218.
  • Maiki-nui, Maiki-roa, &c., personify disease, 108, 110, 115.
  • Maioha rite over infant, 127, 403.
  • Makaka charm, 383.
  • Male and female sexes, functions of, 124, 125.
  • Man of divine origin, 213.
  • Mana
    • (power, prestige, influence, authority), 312, 370, 407.
    • and knowledge, how transmitted, 357.
    • of human bones, 378.
  • Manea: an aura-like quality of man, 220.
  • Manu-hauturuki: daughter of Rau-te-pupuke, 393.
  • Many gods in one, 25.
  • Maori
    • and his gods, 274.
    • a devil worshipper! says Taylor, 16.
    • religion, erroneous views of, 44, 45.
    • religion survey of, 33.
  • Marae of Polynesia, 277.
  • Marae-nui: a term for the ocean, 101, 395.
  • Marama i whanake: the waxing moon, 91.
  • Mareikura and Whatukura: celestial beings, 74, 146.
  • Marquesan voyagers, 171.
  • Marriage customs, 366.
  • Maru, an atua: personified form of celestial phenomenon, 198.
  • Mataaho and Io-mataaho, 87.
  • Matakite, or divination, 278, 409 See also Divination; Seers; Karakia.
  • Matangireia: the abode of Io, 146.
  • Mataora and Niwareka, 392.
  • Matapou charm: a magic spell, 386.
  • Matini: offerings to aitu, 322. See also Ahi matini.
  • Matini: a term applied to summer, 94.
  • Maui termed Supreme Being by early writers, 42, 45.
  • Maungaharo: a mountain of old homeland, 107,401.
  • Maunga hirthiri: sacred mountains, 371.
  • Maunga-nui, Tane ascends, 87.
  • Maunga-nui in Polynesia, 320.
  • Mauri
    • of child: material talisman, &c., 365.
    • of a fortified village, 197.
    • of crops, 179.
  • Mawe: the semblance of an object, place, or quality, 220, 333.
  • Media of gods, 218, 266.
    • Functions of, 207.
  • Medical research unknown, 185.
  • Memoirs of Polynesian Society, 10.
  • Memorizing-powers of Maori, 48.
  • Mentality of Maori, 34, 35, 36, 37, 71, 153.
  • Miri aroha, or love effacing rite, 369.
  • Missionary condemnation of Maori, 35.
  • Mist Maid and Uenuku (the rainbow), 195.
  • Mist Maid, abode of, 100.
  • Moana a kura, 393.
  • Moana i Orongo: sacred waters of uppermost heaven, 102, 396.
  • Moe-ahuru, the Star Mother, 89, 91.
  • Mohaka's raid on Ruatahuna, 282.
  • Moko: lizard and crocodile, 188.
  • Moko-huruhuru: a phosphorescent creature, 80.
  • Monotheism, 158.
  • Moon and Water of Life, 96.
  • Moon cult obscured, 171.
  • Moon-goddess connected with women, birth, and art of weaving, 358.
  • Moon-gods, 149.
  • Moon-lore, 181.
  • Moon myths. See Hina; Rona; Rongo.
  • Moon, names of, 91.
  • Moon-worship, 341.
  • Moral characteristics of Maori, 36.
  • Moral "debasement" of Maori, 36.
  • Morality and religion, 21, 22, 26, 161.
  • Mortuary memorials, offerings to, 227.
  • Mortuary sacrifice, 237, 244.
  • Mounds formed in ritual performances, 120, 366.
  • Mua: a sacred place, &c., 252, 272.
  • Muriwai hou ki Rarohenga: descent to underworld, 78.
  • Myth and religion inseparable, 10, 16, 33, 54.
  • Myths in the making, 113.
  • Myths origin of, 207.

N

  • Nature-gods, 137, 140, 171, 192, 193 on, 215.
  • Nelson's sun-feast data, 342.
  • Nepia Pohuhu, the tohunga, 67.
  • Nervousness, how cured, 353.
  • Nest-house of newly born infant, 358.
  • Ngana and Ngangana, 188, 189.
  • Ngatoro-i-rangi of Te Arawa, 170, 171.
  • Ngau paepae rite, 101, 355.
  • Ngau taringa, a singular usage, 357.
  • Niu method of divination, 285 on.
  • Niwareka, genealogy of, 392.
  • Nuke-te-aio: a being connected with Whare-kura, 98.
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O

  • Ocean
    • calmed by magic, 387.
    • denizens assist mariners, 387.
    • guardians of, 108.
    • of Kiwa: Te Moana nui a Kiwa, 77.
    • personified form of. See Hinemoana.
  • Ochre, 167, 168.
    • Origin of, 85.
  • Offerings
    • blood, bloodless, 224.
    • placatory, 223, 227, &c.
    • to atua, 222, &c.
    • to dead, 227, 228.
    • to images, 257.
    • to mortuary memorials, 227.
    • waved to gods, 225. See also First-fruits; Uruuru whenua.
  • Ohaoha ritual of marriage, 366.
  • Ohomairangi: a celestial being, 102.
  • Ohonga: medium in sympathetic magic, 220.
  • Ohorangi rite to cause thunder, 361.
  • Omens, 210.
  • One god with many names, 149.
  • Oracles, 252, 278. See also Divination; Matakite.
  • Origin of Maori, 224.
  • Orongonui: night of moon, 178.
  • Orongonui as a season-name, 100, 110.
  • Ovens, ceremonial, 327-328. See also Imu; Umu.

P

  • Pa, human sacrifice for new, 236.
  • Paerangi, Te: the Tane v. Whiro contest, 116.
  • Paia and Tane, 81, 83.
  • Pani and the kumara, 120.
  • Pani appealed to in karakia, 374. See also Hine-tinaku.
  • Paoa, 100.
  • Papa of matakite, or prophecy, 281.
  • Papa the Parentless: the Earth Mother, 87.
  • Papa-tiraharaha: the Earth Mother, 88.
  • Papa-tuanuku: the Earth Mother, 88.
  • Parangeki: spirits of the dead, 79.
  • Parauri: a "parent" of birds, 77, 169.
  • Paraweranui: the south, a honorific term, 101.
  • Para-whenuamea: personified form of water, 166, 167.
  • Parturition, 359, 360.
  • Patu tawaka: an old time weapon, 106, 400.
  • Pele-honuamea: personified form of volcanic fire, 188.
  • Personifications, 65, 109, 115, 118, 125, 126, 128, 162, 166 on, 340, 394.
  • Personifications of volcanic phenomena, 78, 88.
  • Personification, Maori genius for, 34, 35, 40.
  • Personified forms of mental conditions, &c., 57.
  • Phallic
  • Phallus, powers of, in Maori belief, 353.
  • Phallus, protective powers of, 338.
  • Pia, or scholars of School of Learning, 266.
  • Pipipi o te rangi: a celestial phenomenon, 105.
  • Pito, or umbilical cord, of child placed in stone, 370, 371. See also Iho.
  • Plants, sentient spirits of, 242, 243.
  • Po, Te: primal chaos and darkness, &c., 69, 70, 80.
  • Po, Te: use and meaning of term, 58, 59, 66.
  • Popoa, or sacred food, 226, 377.
  • Pou-te-aniwaniwa: a being connected with rainbows, 193.
  • Poutere-rangi: the meeting-place of souls of dead, 107.
  • Poutiriao, or guardians of universe, 106, 400, 401.
  • Poutiriao as a place-name, 400.
  • Pou uekaha: primitive form of birth-registration, 362.
  • Pouwaka: a small elevated hut, 202.
  • Powers, singular statements anent the Maori, 49.
  • Prayer practically unknown, 308.
  • Priests and their duties, 53. See also Tohunga; Seers.
  • Primal offspring
    • (of Sky and Earth), 64, 70, 75.
    • abodes of, 86, 87.
    • dissensions among, 111, 183.
    • separate, 86.
  • Prophecies of coming of Europeans, 300, 301.
  • Proverbs, &c., 123, 129, 180, 203, 393.
  • Puhaorangi: a celestial being, 102, 114, 189.
  • Pukenui a Papa: a ceremonial mound, 366.
  • Puna a Tinirau: mythical origin of fish, 180.
  • Punaweko personifies land-birds, 77, 121, 166, 169.
  • Punishment of wrong-doing comes in this world, 38.
  • Pupil slays teacher by magic arts, 245.
  • Pure rite, 84, 102, 104, 107.
  • Puri: a grade of priest, 266.
  • Pu-whakahara: a forbear of trees, 77.
  • Puwhenua, or subterranean dwelling, 86.
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Q

  • Qualities personified, 69.

R

  • Ra (sun), wives of, 181.
  • Ra and Ra-tum of Egypt, 96.
  • Races with no religion, 20
  • Rain charms, 389.
  • Rainbow personified, 193.
  • Rakahore personifies rock, 167
  • Rakahore and fire, 115.
  • Rakaiora represents lizards, 200.
  • Raka-maomao represents the south, 77.
  • Ra-kura: the red sun, 76, 91.
  • Ranga: a tuahu, or sacred place, 330.
  • Rangahua, 77.
  • Rangahua and stones, 166, 167.
  • Rangi and Papa
    • Sky Father and Earth Mother, 66, 67, 160, 167, 170.
    • Genealogical descent of man from, 170.
    • Offspring of, 64, 70, 75. See also Primal offspring.
    • Separated, 83.
  • Rangiatea in uppermost heaven, 103.
  • Rara-taunga-rere personifies fruitfulness, 166, 169.
  • Rarohenga: the underworld of spirits, 75, 78, 109.
  • Ra tum and ra tumu, 175.
  • Raukakai, or sacrifice, 232.
  • Raurau, divinatory rite, 297.
  • Rauroha, Te: abode of denizens of uppermost heaven, 146, 153.
  • Ra-wheoro, Te: a School of Learning, 111.
  • Rehu-o-Tainui: a cacodemon, 206.
  • Rehua
    • a celestial being, 189.
    • and birds, 170.
    • and Ruatau, 81, 99, 146.
  • Religion
    • and morality, 21, 22, 26.
    • characteristics of, 29.
    • concerned with Maori industrial activities, 11.
    • definition of, 12.
    • feelings that produce, 31.
    • impinged upon social life, 11.
    • inner beliefs not readily divulged, 41.
    • in the making, 113, 154.
    • intolerance in, 30.
    • its effects, 29.
    • no national system in Maoriland, 141.
    • of Maori according to early writers, 9, 42.
    • of Maori, different phases of, 11.
    • of Maori, survey of, 33.
    • origin of, 16, 22.
    • personal, 52.
    • stages of development, 29.
    • three phases of, 30.
    • two phases of, 53.
  • Religions
    • change or die, 26.
    • how changed, 28.
    • of lower races, 18.
  • Religious
    • feeling deeply rooted in man, 29.
    • feeling, origin of, 215.
    • intolerance, 157.
  • Riaki, Te: a graduate of the School of Learning, 147.
  • Right and left sides, 372. See also Left.
  • Rites
    • absolutory, 317, 318.
    • performed at dawn or dusk, 316.
    • performed in water, 270.
  • Ritual formulae, 305 on. See also Karakia.
  • Ritual performances, 305, &c.
  • Rock, origin of, 166.
  • Rohe of the underworld, 129.
  • Roiho and Roake, 182.
  • Rona and the moon, 96, 97, 178.
  • Rongo, 210.
    • and Hina, 178.
    • and Hina are one, 178-9.
    • and peace, 176, 179.
    • as guardian, &c., of vegetation, 109.
    • in Polynesia, 178.
    • nurtures crops, 179.
    • tutelary being of vegetable food products, 176.
  • Rongomai: the parent of Kahukura, 193, 201.
  • Rongomai-tahanui: a guardian of heavenly bodies, 94.
  • Rongomai-tu-waho: a guardian of the ocean, 108, 110.
  • Rongo-maraeroa: Rongo as pertaining to ocean, 77, 176.
  • Rongo-ma-Tane: a dual deity, 64, 177.
  • Rongo-nui-a-tau, 179, 194, 252, 254.
  • Rongo-patahi of Takitumu, 216.
  • Rongo-takawhiu, 202.
  • Rono of Accadia, 178.
  • Rua and Tangaroa, 180.
  • Rua of the many names personifies knowledge, 121.
  • Ruahine, or priestess, 271.
  • Rua-i-te-mahara personifies thought, &c., 393.
  • Rua-i-te-pukenga, 98, 99.
  • Ruamano: a sea denizen and taniwha, 181.
  • Ruatau: celestial being, 189.
  • Ruatua and Rehua, 81, 99, 146.
  • Rua-te-hohonu: a personification of knowledge, 401.
  • Rua-te-pupuke: a personification of knowledge, 393.
  • Rua-tupua-nui: connected with Atea at Tahiti, 68.page 421
  • Ruaumoko
    • of the underworld, 77, 392.
    • and Hinutohu, 78.
    • assails mankind, 115.
    • represents volcanic phenomena, 188.
  • Ruawharo of Takitumu, 216.

S

  • Sacred
    • day, no regularly recurring, 39, 52.
    • fires, 318. See also Ahi.
    • places. See Tuahu.
    • stones, 111. See also Whatu.
    • stones, offerings to, 350.
    • stones of whare wananga, 147-148.
    • waters of a village community, 277.
  • Sakti: destructive energy of female sex, 354.
  • Saliva
    • as a medium in magic, 337.
    • as a restorative, 337, 338.
    • possesses mana, 338.
    • used in ceremonial performances, 337, 338, 339, 373, 386.
  • Sand Maid: a personification, 166, 167.
  • Scapegoat performance, 318.
  • Scholars of School of Learning, titles of, 266
  • School of Learning, 266.
  • Search for the female element, 119.
  • Seers, 211, 271, 278 on, 409. See also Matakite; Spirit-gods and their manifestations.
  • Seers, initiatory rite over, 301.
  • Sexes. See Female; Male; Woman.
  • Sexual warfare, 123.
  • Shamanism, 207, 208.
  • Sharks, 401.
  • Sharks, origin of, 108.
  • Shell-fish as a love messenger, 368.
  • Sickness: diagnostic rite, 371.
  • Sickness, treatment of, 204, 293, 370.
  • Siva of India and crescent moon, 350, 354, 355.
  • Sky and Earth (see also Earth Mother; Papa; Rangi)—
    • Origin of, 62.
    • Personified forms of, 306.
    • Separated, 83.
  • Sneezing, 121, 123.
  • Solar halo produced by magic, 268.
  • Songs: a native recites 406 songs, 48.
  • Sooterkins, 255.
  • Soul despatched to spirit-world, 375.
  • Soul, origin of, 121. See also Wairua; Spirit.
  • Spirit survives death of body, 214.
  • Spiritual guardians of man, 210.
  • Star experts carried on deep-sea voyages, 217, 408.
  • Star-lore, 91, 92, 93, 94.
  • Stars, origin of, 125-126.
  • Still-born child: spirit of becomes an atua, 205. See also Cacodemons.
  • Stone images, 255.
  • Stone talisman protects crops, 179.
  • Stones
    • anointed, 350.
    • cause conception, 350.
    • of Tane, 165, 350.
    • origin of, 166, 167, 168.
    • See also Sacred stones; Whatu.
  • Suicide, 239.
  • Summer Maid, the: a personification, 181.
  • Sun
    • and moon as forbears of Sky and Earth, 70.
    • course of, arranged, 93.
    • cult at Society Isles, 173.
    • cult obscured in Polynesia, 172, 341.
    • festival, 341.
    • names for, 91.
    • takes seasons to wife, 181.
  • Sun-worship, 339.
  • Sun-worship a natural sequence, 172.
  • Supernormal forbears of man mentioned in ritual formulae, 64.
  • Superstition
    • as a disciplinary agent, 38, 40.
    • effects of, 30, 34, 36, 38.
    • persistence of, 27.
  • Supreme Being liable to be neglected, 155, 156.
  • Supreme Being, Maori concept of, 142. See also Io.

T

  • Taha atua: vessels to contain gods, 216.
  • Taha rakau: wooden vessels, 408.
  • Taheke-roa: the path of death, descent to underworld, 112.
  • Tahora-atea; Tahora-nui-atea: expressions denoting the vast expanse of ocean, 93, 128, 188.
  • Tahu personifies food, 202.
  • Tahuaroa: a term applied to the ocean, 101.
  • Tahu-makaka-nui: honorific name for west wind, 101.
  • Tahu-mawake-nui: honorific name for east wind, 101.
  • Taiwhetuki, the House of Death, 116.
  • "Takitumu" canoe, coming of, 216.
  • Takutaku rite, 372.
  • Tama-i-waho: a celestial being, 189.
  • Tamarau recited his genealogy in three days, 48.
  • Tamatea-ariki-nui, 407.
  • Tama-te-uira personifies lightning, 77, 108, 198.
  • Tamoe rite, 383.
  • Tane, 64, 70, 137.
    • and Hine-ahu-one, 171.
    • and Io meet, 396.
    • and male principle, 132.
    • and Paia receive new names, 87.
    • and trees, 120.page 422
    • as a demiurge, 123, 128.
    • as a guardian, 109.
    • as a forbear of inanimate matter, 166.
    • as origin of birds, 169.
    • as the sun, 95.
    • ascends to uppermost heaven, 99, 394.
    • attacked by Whiro, 101.
    • functions of, 165.
    • genealogical line of descent from, 170.
    • in Polynesia, 165, 173.
  • Tane-i-te-hiringa, 174.
  • Tane
    • names of, 117.
    • obtain the three Baskets of Knowledge, 103, 105.
    • offerings to, 172.
    • offspring of, 125, 166.
    • represents the sun, 340.
  • Tane-rore, 118.
  • Tane-te-hokahoka, 77, 109, 110, 118, 170.
  • Tane-te-po-tiwha, 96, 171.
  • Tane-te-waiora represents sunlight, 96.
  • Tane
    • the Fertilizer and Tiki, 124, 127.
    • the origin of light, 95.
    • Tu, and Rongo as one being, 151.
    • versus Whiro contest, 111.
  • Tangaroa, 77
  • Tangaroa-a-roto, 181.
  • Tangaroa
    • as a demiurge, 182.
    • as pertaining to heavens, 182.
    • as pertaining to underworld, 183.
    • in Polynesia, 182, 183.
    • of the ocean, 180.
    • represents fish, 180.
    • takes place of Whiro, 182, 183.
    • the Tide-controller, 108, 109, 180.
  • Tangaroa-whakamau-tai, 180.
  • Tangotango, alias Tongatonga, 90.
  • Taniwha
    • (monsters), how subdued, 333.
    • of ocean, 181.
    • origin of, 167.
    • punish wrongdoers, 388.
  • Tapu, 42, 209, 263, 270, 280, 317.
  • Tapuwae charm, 386. See also Hoa.
  • Tatai arorangi: astronomical lore, 91.
  • Tattooing, 323.
  • Taumaha rite, 387.
  • Taumata atua: shrines of spirit-gods, 179, 257.
  • Taumata: a magic rite, 382.
  • Taura: scholars of School of Learning, 266.
  • Tawhaki: a being connected with lightning, 198.
  • Tawhiri-matea: personified form of winds, 77, 183.
  • Tawhiri-rangi personifies wind, 77.
  • Tawhito (generative organs), remarkable powers of, 353, 354, 357.
  • Taylor's just remarks on Maori religion, 49.
  • Temples unknown, 39, 143.
  • Theogony, Maori, 135 on. Thunder personified, 198.
  • Tihi o Manono: a mountain of homeland, 101, 107, 401.
  • Tiki, 120, 175.
    • appealed to in karakia, 374.
    • as a demiurge, 130.
    • as a name for male organ, 132.
    • created by Tu, 366.
    • creates first woman, 120.
    • in Polynesia, 131.
    • myth and its symbol, 131.
    • names of, 132.
    • versus Karihi contest, 123, 124.
  • Tiki-tohua, Tiki-kapakapa, 127.
  • Tiki-tol (Tiki-toro) is Tiki the Generator, 350.
  • Tiki
    • a cenotaph, 133.
    • a grotesque pendant, 133.
    • pendant represents the devil, 43.
    • pendant said to be an idol, 43.
  • Tini o Pepetua: insects, &c., 396.
  • Tinirau of the ocean, 180.
  • Tira ora rite, 120, 366.
  • Tiri, or ara atua: an exorcistic rite, 336.
  • Titau makes good his prophecy, 283.
  • Tohi a Tu: a baptismal rite, 381. See also Tohi taua.
  • Tohi: a baptismal rite, 124, 127, 344, 347.
  • Tohi tamariki: a baptismal rite, 359, 360.
  • Tohi taua: a lustral rite, 381.
  • Tohinga River of homeland, 128.
  • Tohunga
    • (priestly experts), account of, 260.
    • classes of, 260, 265, 266.
    • female, 271.
    • functions of, 260, 261, 262.
    • meaning of term, 260.
    • positions and attitudes of in ritual performances, 315.
    • powers of, 268.
  • Tohunga tarahau, 360.
  • Tohunga waitohi, 361.
  • Toi huarewa: the whirlwind path to heaven, 100.
  • Toi-o-nga-rangi: uppermost of twelve heavens, 146.
  • Tonga-apai: an isle of the Pacific, 320.
  • Tonga-ruru: possibly one of the isles of Polynesia, 320.
  • Tongatonga, or Tangotango, 90.page 423
  • Travellers, 325.
  • Travellers and voyagers, rites performed by, 385.
  • Tree causes conception, 351.
  • Tree, cosmogonal, 62, 63.
  • Tree planted at birth of child, 364, 365.
  • Trees, origin of, 118. See also Vegetation.
  • Tu
    • of the war department: a tutelary being, 139.
    • and Turn: the setting sun, 96.
    • as a god of death in Assyria, 175.
    • as a progenitor of man, 64.
    • as a tutelary being, 174.
    • creates Tiki, 366.
    • known in Polynesia, 174, 175.
    • of Accadia, 175.
  • Tua o Rongo: ceremonial performance, 359.
  • Tua o Tu: ceremonial performance, 359.
  • Tua rite: baptismal function, 319.
  • Tuahu, or sacred places, 272.
  • Tuamatua represents rocks and stones, 77, 167.
  • Tuanuku: a name for the Earth Mother, 81.
  • Tuapa of death, 376.
  • Tuapa rite to lay ghost, 326.
  • Tuapa tamariki: a protective talisman, 365.
  • Tuapana charm, 389.
  • Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatum), 184.
  • Tuatara allied to birds, 119.
  • Tu-korako: a personification, 195, 201.
  • Tuku wairua, or soul-despatching rite, 375.
  • Tuna and Hina: phallic eel and moon-goddess, 349, 350.
  • Tunui-a-te-ika: a third-class deity, 197.
  • Tuora and waiora: their signification, 365, 366.
  • Turakanga rite, 365.
  • Turanga a tohu: a divinatory dance, 299.
  • Turuma, or latrine, 356. See also Latrines; Ngau paepae.
  • Tutara-kauika: a name for the right whale, 181.
  • Tu-te-aniwaniwa: the abode of Whiro, 86.
  • Tutelary beings, 137, 162, 174.
  • Tu-te-wehiwehi represents reptiles, 183.
  • Twelve
    • a prominent number in Maori lore, 399.
    • heavens, 72.
    • heavens, denizens of, 74.

U

  • Uenuku: a personified form of rainbow, 194.
  • Uenuku and the Mist Maid: a nature myth, 195.
  • Uenuku-rangi and Ihu-parapara: a myth, 406.
  • Uenuku-tuwhatu: a stone that caused conception, 350.
  • Uepoto, first member of primal offspring, enters the world, 80.
  • Uetonga of the underworld, 392.
  • Uha, or female element, 121, 122.
  • Umbilical cord. See Iho; Pito.
  • Umu, or steam-ovens, ceremonial, 328, &c.
  • Umu hiki rite, 328, 356.
  • Umu kotore, or marriage feast, 366.
  • Umu parapara, 323.
  • Umu pera, 328.
  • Umu pongipongi: a. magic rite, 329.
  • Umu potaka, 228.
  • Umu pururangi rite, 328.
  • Umu ruahine, 328.
  • Umu ti, 327.
  • Umu tuakaha, 328.
  • Umu tukupara, 328.
  • Umu whangai rite, 329, 359.
  • Unbiased judgement often difficult, 33, 34.
  • Ure, or male organ, protective powers of, 338.
  • Urinal, rites performed at, 326. See also Latrines; Ngau paepae; Turuma.
  • Uru, Land of, 224.
  • Uruahu: a sacred place, 277.
  • Uru and Ngana in native myth, 188, 189.
  • Uru-te-ngangana of the primal offspring, 75, 76, 82, 114, 125, 188, 189.
  • Uruuru whenua ceremony, 227.

V

  • Vatea, Watea, Atea: a personification, 183.
  • Vegetation, growth of, personified, 126, 127.
  • Vegetation, guardians of, 109.
  • Volcano names of Pacific isles, 320.
  • Volcanic phenomena, origin of, 88, 188. See also Ruaumoko.

W

  • Wahieroa: personified form of comets, 198.
  • Wahine kaihau, or priestesses, 328.
  • Wai kotikoti: tapu waters at which ceremonial acts were performed, 329.
  • Wai matua: unpolluted waters of the earth, 363.
  • Wai matua o Tuapapa: unpolluted waters of the Earth Mother, 270, 343.
  • Wainui-atea: personified form of the ocean, 68.
  • Waiora a Tane: waters of life, sunlight, 96.
  • Waiora, tuora, hauora, signification of, 365, 366.
  • Wai-o-Rongomai: sacred waters in eleventh heaven, 153.
  • Wairua: souls, spirits, 220. See also Soul.page 424
  • Wai tapu: tapu waters where rites were performed, 336, 343.
  • Wai taua: a war rite, 380.
  • Wai whakaiho: a place for ceremonial performances, 343.
  • Wai whakaika: tapu waters where ceremonial acts were performed, 329.
  • Waka atua: medium of an atua, 266.
  • Wananga: esoteric knowledge, 103, 105, 398.
  • Wananga, three "baskets" of, 397.
  • War ceremonies, 379, 380.
  • War-god, origin and development of a, 206.
  • War-gods, 139, 140.
  • War-party, ceremonial return of, 384.
  • Watch viewed as an atua, 37, 136.
  • Watea, Vatea, Atea: personifies space, 183.
  • Watea separated Sky and Earth, 69.
  • Water
    • entered into ritual performances, 343. See also Aspersion; Immersion.
    • origin of, 166.
    • personified forms of, 192.
    • rites performed in, 302, 344, 345, 346, 360, 361.
  • Waters of Life, 96.
  • Waters, sacred, 330, 343. See also Wai tapu; Wai kotikoti; Wai whakaika, &c.
  • "W.B." on Maori religion, 51.
  • Weapons, charms repeated over, 379.
  • Weather charms, 389.
  • Wehenga kauki: monsters of the ocean, 181.
  • Wehi-nui-o-mamao: a celestial being connected with stars, 93, 94.
  • Wero-i-te-ninihi: a star name, 94
  • Whakaepa: a. conciliatory rite, 280.
  • Whakaha ceremony, 303, 357.
  • Whakanoho manawa rite to restore life, 296.
  • Whakaruaumoko. See Ruaumoko.
  • Whakatauki, 393. See also Proverbs.
  • Whakau rite, 377.
  • Whanau akaaka: the repulsive hordes of Whiro, 396.
  • Whanau a Rangi: the primal offspring, 190.
  • Whanau marama: the Children of Light, 90.
  • Whangai hau rite, 382.
  • Wharau-rangi: the abode of Rongo, 87.
  • Whare kahu, or foetus hut, 358.
  • Whare kohanga, or birth hut, 358.
  • Whare-kura: first house of learning on earth, 98, 399.
  • Whare-kura: abode of Tangaroa in ninth heaven (Samoa), 182.
  • Whare o aitua: origin of misfortune, 121, 354.
  • Whare o te ora: origin of welfare, 354.
  • Whata puaroa: a tapu place, 273.
  • Whatukura and Mareikura: denizens of uppermost heaven, 74, 104, 146.
  • Whatu kura: tapu stones, 105, 111.
  • Whatu kura a Tane, 111.
  • Whatu kura a Tangaroa, 111.
  • Whatu of a house: a talismanic object, 232.
  • Whatu of a whare wananga, or School of Learning, 147.
  • Whiro-te-tipua: personifies form of darkness and evil, 76, 114, 164, 185.
  • Whiro-te-tipua as origin of disease and sickness, 185.
  • Whiro-te-tipua attacks Tane: Darkness versus Light contest, 114, 396.
  • Whiro-te-tipua, offerings to, 186.
  • Whiro-te-tipua quarrels with his brethren, 82, 83.
  • Whiro-te-tipua retires to underworld, 115.
  • Whiro the Polynesian voyager confused with above Whiro, 186.
  • Whiro-nui an immigrant by "Nukutere" canoe, 186.
  • Wind
  • Winds, honorific names of, 84. See also Huru-mawake; Huru-nuku.
  • Winds. See Tawhiri-matea.
  • Winter Maid, the: a personification, 181.
  • Woman
    • creation of first, 121.
    • impregnated by a god, 196.
    • origin of, 119 on.
    • as priestesses, 271.
  • Worship: no true worship known, 39, 40.
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