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The name Mao7i can also be traced to Turanian India. INIr. 

 W. L. Kauken, in his essay on "Mahori Migrations," already 

 quoted from, speaking of the name Maori, as applied to themselves 

 by the copper-coloured Polynesians, says : " This name varies 

 with the dialects of the different groups : it is in some Mahoii, in 

 others Maori, and in many Mahuri; by the last, the name would 

 be recognised by more members of it than by any other name." 

 If it might be inferred from this that the original form of the 

 name was Mahori, this approaches so nearly the form Mahari 

 of Southern India — that is, the Mahars or scaveuger-caste, as 

 known to Europeans, that I think there can be little doubt that 

 these latter represent, on the Asiatic Continent, a people that 

 has had since aboriginal times a very wide diffusion : on the 

 one hand, peopling the islands of the light-coloured Polynesians ; 

 on the other, (and in intimate connection with Phcenicians,) the 

 northern regions of Africa — the former the Maori, or Mahori, 

 the latter the Mauri (inhabitants of Mauritiania), later known a3 

 Moors. 



The late Eev. E. Taylor suspected that there was a connec- 

 tion between the names " Maori" and " Moor," but, in common 

 with others, he imagined that the Maori races represented one 

 or more of the lost tribes of Israel ; and thus, the Moor being 

 deemed an Arab, he accounted for racial affinity. For the theory 

 there was some amount of seeming foundation, in the striking 

 similarity of certain customs and traditions. But the true 

 explanation is to be found in the fact that both Hebrew and 

 Maori inherited, equally with the Phoenicians, much that is 

 common both to Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylonia, and India — that 

 is, Turanian customs and traditions. 



Another feature that points the connection of ]\Iaori, Egyp- 

 tian, and Turanian tradition, is the connection of the Atua 

 FotiJd (or " child-gods") of the Maoris with the Ptah of Egypt, 

 and the I'ataihos of Phoenicia. " The Phoenician Paiacki were 

 the children of Flitlia, also called children of Sadik." The 

 Egyptian Ptah=the opener, and was represented as a how-legiicd 

 dwarf, or /irc^ws^the Phoenician Pataikos, " the Creator of the 

 world, the sun, and moon, out of chaos [ha), or matter (»(»)." 

 These quotations from " Chambers' Encyclopasdia" enable mo 

 to confirm much that I have advanced about the Maori Tiki, 

 conclusions that I arrived at before I came across this further 

 evidence. Here we have Ptali, I'uiaikos, nwd. Potiki = i\iQ "child 

 or opener of the womb of Nature," the anthropomorphic LhiUj 

 or Creator, represented as a how-leijiied dwarf, ox fcehis, a descrip- 

 tion that exactly describes the hcitiki (Ahua-Tiki) of the IMaoris, 

 I he much-prized greenstone ornament, which is worn round the 

 neck as an image or remembrance of Tiki, and the tijpe of all 

 the images that figure in Maori carvings, and probably explana- 

 tory of tlicm ; these, moreover, form the only approach to 



