Tregeae. — Pohjnesian Knoicledge of Cattle. 469 



fication connects it with vaka or waka. We have seen 

 how vaka means not only a canoe, but a medium of 

 the gods, a priest of a deity ; so we get also a secondary 

 meaning for taura : Samoan, taula, the priest of a deity ; 

 Hawaiian, kaula (taula), a prophet ; Tongan, taula, a priest 

 {tail, to address in prayer) ; Marquesan, taua (taura), a 

 priest ; Maugarewan, taura, a priest. The persistent Hawaiian 

 change of t to k, common in Polynesia (even in Maori words 

 between themselves, as ivhaki = w]iati, &c.), gives perhaps the 

 key to the whole matter — that is to say, ta^i is kau (cow), 

 and taura is kaura. Thus, Maori tmi, "to float," approaches 

 in meaning kau, "to swim;" taupua, "to float," compares 

 With. porang a (jjo-ranga), "to float," and jjore?2a {po-rena), "to 

 float, as oil." (i?o = cattle- words.) Marquesan tau means 

 both " to carry on the back " and to " arrive by sea." * "With 

 the bearing or carrying words we have the same inter- 

 changeable sense, the Hawaiian kauo and kauivo, " to 

 draw, drag along," meaning also " a special blessing or 

 favour" (as vaka and taiira meant priestly interceders). 

 Maori tautau, an ear-ornament, = kai, an ear-ornament (cf. 

 Sanscrit go iJra (lit. "possessor of cows "),= jewels, treasures). 

 Tau means, in Maori, the ridge of a hill ; taukaka, spur of a 

 hill ; taumata, brow of a hill. The northern boundary of the 

 lands of Arya was the Taurus range, and the word tau has 

 been kept in the Caucasus, &c., as the name of a hill, or range 

 of hills, to the present day; the names of hills are Mala Tau, 

 Mishirge Tau, &c. "Tau — like Taueru, in the Tyrol — is applied 

 more often to a range than to any individual top."! The 

 Polynesian chief variant seems to be tara, this being used, in 

 a secondary sense, particularly for " horn." | Perhaps the 

 most general application of the word "horn" in ancient 

 times was as a symbol (1) of lunar deities, (2) of male or 

 regal power. Isis with the cow's head ; Artemis Taurica ; § 

 the horned Hera; Ishtar (Ashtaroth), called in the Septua- 

 gint (Tobit, i., 5) " the she-Baal, the cow," &c., are instances 

 of lunar deities. Tara means, in Maori, a point, spear-point ; 

 rays, to thi'ow out rays; courage, mettle. || The bull (symbol- 



* What is the derivation of IMaori taupo, " a loadstone " ? Can it be 

 possible tViat the magnetic needle was known in those far-back days of 

 the Polynesian migration ! Was the arrow of Abaris, by which he guided 

 himself whither he wished to go, a tir (or tail) arrow ? 



t Mr. Freshfield's " Suanetia," " Trans. Eoyal Geog. Soc," June, 

 1888, p. 349. 



X In Lithuanian taxire signifies a drinking-horn, as the Irish bubhal, 

 horn, is connected with Latin bubalus. 



§ Diana was not so named from the Taurican Chersonese. She was 

 " bicornls regina sidcrum." (Horat., " Carmen Scec," 35.) 



11 Also mcmbrum virile. 



