BhYTH.— On "The Whence of the Maon." 627 



mortality, so as to render it eventually a tree of life and immor- 

 tality ; this being rendered possible by the incarnation of Deity, 

 from time to time, to impart those spiritual lessons that serve to 

 develope man's soul, so as to in time wean it from its material 

 clog or body, and invest it in its spiritual body, or garment of 

 light, which alone can inhabit eternity. All religious teachers 

 of note, such as Adam, Enoch, Noah, and Moses, were deemed 

 to have been partial incarnations of the Divine Spirit, having 

 partaken in no small measure, though not perfectly, of the 

 Divine nature. Thus Adam is, by Matthew the Evangelist, 

 called " the Son of God." Adam was the first of the Gautamas, 

 the first spiritual father of mankind — not the first physical — and 

 published the gospel of condemnation, or Proto-Buddhism, in 

 the land of Nod, or India, that Phallo-pantheistic creed that 

 Sakhya Muni, at a much later period, elaborated and reformed. 

 All Eastern writings are more or less of this esoteric nature. 

 Josephus says as much. " Moses," he says, " wrote some 

 things in a decent allegory." The very directness in the 

 sensuous bearing of the Maori story, proves that the true 

 exposition is to be found by treating it esoterically. That it is 

 impossible to be mistaken in the exposition here advanced, a 

 short study of the fossil names in the tradition will render 

 evident. 



Siva, the great Hindu god of Turanian type, is the deity 



whose peculiar functions are those of generation and regeneration. 



He is also called Eudra. It will readily be seen that this name 



of his is the original of the Maori Pac, and the Tahitian Pmu. 



In his generative faculty, he is represented under the symbol of 



the linghain, or phallos ; he is then named Maha-deo, or Maha- 



deva, equivalent to " Magnus-deus :" we have the one form 



preserved in the Mahuta of the Maori story, and the latter part 



of the second form — viz., deva, in the teva of the Tahitians. 



The Greeks called the phallic-tower of the Phoenicians mudros ; 



and the Celts of Ireland, who were doubtless connected with 



Phoenician colonists, called their round towers mudhr.'^- It 



seems to me impossible to resist such evidence as this, which 



tallies in every feature, the Maori with its original Hindu. I 



would repeat that from the fact that such words as tntari and 



pepeke are applied to Tane, one form of Phallic symbolism, as 



also to Ngae, (the hypothetical snake symbol,) the inference is 



strengthened that this phallic view of Ngae is probably correct, 



and Tane Tuturi = Ngae Tuturi, and Tane Pepeke = Ngae Pepeke ; 



that is, they represent two forms of the same symbol of "tree 



and serpent- worship." It has been suggested to me that the 



Maori word ngarara, which the Natives apply to any reptilian 



or worm-like creature, may have been similarly understood, 



See Jennings' " Rosicrucians.' 



