Blyth.— 0» *' The Whence of the Maori." 529 



though a dusky deity, is yet of an Aryan connection. He is 

 no longer a son of Kah, the terrestrial mother goddess of 

 Turanian connection, but he is born of Dewaki, earlier known as 

 Aditi (space), the celestial mother goddess of the Aryans ; and 

 hence he figures as an Aryan god with a dusky face but Aryan 

 sympathies ; an incarnation, with his white twin-brother 

 Balarama, of a black and a white hair from the head of Vishnu. 

 Kali or Uma plays her part, but in quite a modified and subor- 

 dinate character, becoming incarnate at the same time with 

 Krishna in order to be substituted for him, and so suffer a 

 temporal death in his stead, at the hands of the reigning king, 

 his grandfather, who dreaded his advent : being dashed to death 

 in mistake for the infant Krishna, she regained her position as 

 a deity. This substitution of Kali for Krishna shows the close 

 relation that originally existed between her and Krishna ; for, 

 being in the original cult mother and son, this very intimate 

 relation had not altogether to be ignored, and was compassed in 

 this roundabout way. 



But not only is the descent of Krishna thus distorted : his 

 future career is modified in the same interest. He is, as 

 already said, Aryan in sympathy, and is represented fighting 

 on the side of the Pandavas, or white race, as against the 

 Kurus, or black race, in the poem of the Mahabarat, an epic 

 commemorating the struggle of two rival families of the great 

 house of Bharat (that, is really, of Aryans and Turanians) for 

 the possession of Peninsular India, or the land of Bharat. 



This group of Turanian gods find their counterparts in 

 Maori mythology, with some modifications as indicated. Kali, 

 or Uma, appears as Hema, or Houmea ; Krishna as Karihi ; and 

 Dewaki, the mother of Krishna, is transformed to Tatvaki, a son 

 of Hema (corresponding to Uma, or Kali). According to one 

 story of Hema, or Houmea, her husband's name is Uta, which 

 seems a contraction of Mahuta, a phallic name, as I have shown, 

 and equivalent to the Hindu Maha-deo, a name of Siva, or 

 Piudra, the husband of Uma, or Kali. Now, these fossil-names 

 occurring in the same Maori story, or groups of stories, the per- 

 sons they represent being all of one family, and answering to a 

 like series of related names of the Turanian deities of India, 

 all point to India as the source whence they were derived. The 

 bearings of the legends, or the stories related of these heroes 

 and heromes, are completely to be interpreted by the stories 

 related of their Hindu counterparts. The attributes of Hema, or 

 Houmea, are those of Uma, or Kali : Hema, like Uma in some 

 legends, has personal beauty ; in others she is a glutton and 

 thief: just as Uma, being the goddess of death and the grave, is 

 propitiated with bloody rites, and is pictured as bloodthirsty in 

 the extreme ; for, being " mother earth," she is at once the womb 

 that bears and the grave that again consumes the fruit of the 



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