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and reference is made to the story of Tawliaki, mentioning his 

 brother Karihi, his father Hema, and his mother Hina : — 



" The rainbow is the jjath of Tawhaki. 

 Tawhaki arose, Tawhaki bestirred himself, 

 Tawhaki passed on, on the floating cloud of Tane. 

 Perplexed were the eyes of Karilii. 

 Tawhaki passed on, on the glancing light, 

 The glancing light on men and canoes. 

 Above was Hanaiakamalama ; 

 That is the road to seek the father of Tawhaki." 



In a note commenting on this legend, Judge Fornauder 

 says : " Hanaiakamalama was the name of Hema's mother Hina. 

 81ie is said to have been disgusted with her children Puna and 

 Hema, and to have gone up to the moon to live." This seems 

 to show that, however distorted the legend had grown, 

 Tawhaki's "heavenly maiden" was the Hma of the moon ; the 

 Hawaiian " Hanaiakamalama," reading in Maori as " Hanaia- 

 te-marama," or " Hana-i-a-te-marama," doubtless originally 

 signifying " Brightness of the moon," or " Let the moon shine." 

 Hina's voyage is mentioned in a prayer to Lono (Eongo) : — 



" My god has assumed the shape of a shark 

 In the month of Hinaialeele, 

 May I be saved through my fullness of prayer ! 

 Saved through my health-offering ! 

 Saved through my devotion ! 

 By you, God!" 



The conclusion which seems inevitable in considering this 

 legend, and the broken-up remnants of it existing all over the 

 Pacific, is, that it probably was the property of all the tribes 

 before the separation. It may have travelled from one land 

 to another, from one island to another, but it bears internal 

 evidence of very high antiquity, and of primitive origin. The 

 connection between Maui and Hina, through the old blind 

 Kui and the heavenly race, seems at first sight to be very slight. 

 I believe we must go not only outside New Zealand, but outside 

 Polynesia, for an explanation, which will probably be found in 

 its study as a lunar myth. 



Professor Max Midler has already noted the story of Ina, as 

 agreeing with the Greek legend of Tithonos and Eos, and quotes 

 it as a singular coincidence ; but I trust to be able to show in a 

 series of papers that there are too many hundreds of such simi- 

 larities in these folk-lore tales for them to be put aside with any 

 such poor word as "coincidence." I believe that in science 

 there is no more " coincidence" than there is " chance," or 

 " luck ;" that every idea, like every word, has its proper 

 parentage : though, alas ! all the scarchings of the wise will 

 long beat in vain in the effort of discovery against that dark 

 blank wall which time and ignorance has built between us 

 and the past. A lesser, but more exasperating, barrier is that 

 of " localization." Every story is localized; and it seems im- 



