Blyth.— On ''The Whence of the Maon." 547 



images found among the Maoris. As Tiki represented the 

 Creator, who is said by Maori tradition to have created man in 

 his own image, as an Ahua-Tiki, or Tiki's hkeness, it was 

 just to represent him (Tiki) as an anthropomorphic deity of the 

 form of a foetus. As the Egyptian Ptah, the Pataikos of the 

 Phoenicians, created the universe, with man, out of chaos [ha) \ 

 so the Maori Potiki, or Tiki, creates man, {he. potiki, as " a gift of 

 Tiki,") from the chaos (^>o). At least this is the rendering of 

 2yotiki as given by Mr. Taylor. The etymology is, however, 

 possibly, not to be trusted, and fanciful ; and at all events only 

 " punningly " strengthens, by an etymological resemblance, the 

 more important fact of an identity of fossil names. 



I have already in my paper striven to identify Tiki (the 

 Chinese Taiki) with the anthropomorphic deity corresponding to 

 the third member of a series of Turanian triads ; I have also 

 shown that he corresponds in function, and even in some forms 

 m name, with Eudhra {Mahadeo), or Siva of the Aryan triad or 

 Trinity ; similarly his wife Pani corresponds, as was shown, to Kali 

 or Uma, the mother-goddess. I had not, at the time of writing 

 my paper, the data to identify the form Pani with any known 

 goddess having a name in any way resembling it. I have since, 

 however, in the Phoenician connection, come upon traces of a 

 probable solution, which fits in with or answers all the features of 

 the case. Bearing in mind, then, that Paul is only another name 

 for Uma or Kali, a mother-goddess, we find a corresponding 

 goddess worshipped in Western Asia by the Phrygians and others, 

 and later by Greeks and Komans, Pihea, the mother of the gods, 

 who is also Kybele, or Kybebe, a goddess of Turanian origin, and 

 corresponding probabhj to Kali. Ky-hebe is possibly only a form 

 of Kala-behe = \AQ,Qk woman in Hindustani, and equivalent to 

 Kali, which Kybele also resembles. She was emphatically the 

 mother-goddess, and was called Ma or Ammas (mother,) which 

 is exactly the Hindustani amma = mother. This is not very 

 far from the idea of Uma, another name of Kali, and correspond- 

 ing to Hema, or Houmea, or Pani, of the Maoris. Now this 

 cult of a mother-goddess of Western Asia, in common with other 

 features, such as Baal worship, and the phallic worship (already 

 pointed out as common to India, Bcabylonia, Egypt, and Phoe- 

 nicia,) appears again among the Celts in Britain and Ireland. 

 The phallic image of Ptudhra, the JSlaha-deo or ijhallos, appears 

 in Phoenicia and Greece as the mudros, and in Ireland as the 

 viuidhir. Now, besides this phallic symbol, the Celtic Irish had a 

 "father-god " and a "mother-goddess." The father-god was called 

 Dagdha-Mor^^Dsbda, Maha, or Maha Dada in Hindustani, that 

 is, " the great-father." Now as muidhir is equivalent to Maha-deo 

 in Hindustani, the symbol of Kudhra or Siva, that is the 2)hallos, 

 the worship of Daghda-Mor is probably identical with, or closely 

 connected with, the cultus of Maha-deo; the "great-father" 



