6 48 Transactions. — MhcelJaneo7is, 



being one with the " great-god" that sjrmboHsed generation. 

 Now the wife of Dagdha-Mor (the great-father,) was the mother- 

 goddess that gave her name to the Eiver Boyne, Banna ; 

 which is just the Maori Pafii, also the mother-goddess ; and, 

 thus, again, the Phrygian Kybebe or Kybele, the Egyptian 

 Isis and the Hindu Kah. The fact that the Maori and the 

 Phoenician sprang fi-om the same aboriginal race, the Kna, or 

 Kanaka, and are not of the race of the Hebrew, but of that of 

 the Turanian Cain, fully explains the connection between the 

 Irish goddess Banna, and the Maori Pani. 



Thus, from regions the antipodes of one another, fossils 

 from the detritus of historical drift may be taken and compared, 

 and their identity or affinity be determined. Thus, the MaJutta 

 (or phallos) of Maori {Kanaka) tradition is found in its original 

 form in India as Maha-deo, (the home of the Turanian Cain, or 

 Kan, being the Land of Nod = India,) and is represented in 

 Phoenicia, the new home of the children of Kain, or Kenan — 

 that is, the Knas, or Kenaanites — in the name mudros : and in 

 Celtic Ireland, where, probably, Phoenician colonies intermarried 

 with and civilized the savage Aryans, in the form muidhir. 

 Similarly, the Maori Potiki, the Hindu Batcha, the Egyptian 

 Ptah, and the Phoeuician Pataikos, or Patacki, (and perhaps the 

 Greek Backus and the Chinese Taiki,) all refer to the child-god, 

 the anthropomorphic deity, the creator, or demiurge. "While I 

 think it may be conceded that the Maori Pani, or Hema, is one 

 with the Hindu Vma, or Kali; the KyhcJc, or Ki/hrbe, called also 

 Ma or A)iiuias, (that is, the mother-goddess) of Western Asia ; the 

 Isis of Egypt, and Banna of the Keltic Irish ; and the hh-tar, or 

 Astartc, of the Phoenicians [hh-tar meaning "black woman"); 

 the " dusk mother," [Eostre of Northern Europe,) the East, 

 from whose womb the Sun-god is born : known among the 

 Maoris as Tawhaki, (or, more properly, Karihi,) in India as 

 Krishna, in Egypt as Horns, in Greece as Bachus, or any other 

 sun-god. 



With reference to my deductions as to the kumara root 

 being a Phallic symbol, equivalent to the yoni or womb of 

 Nature, a particular form of which (as Mr. Colenso hiforms us) 

 was designated " Pani's canoe," I have somewhat further to add, 

 confirmatory of what I advanced on that head. I tried to show 

 the identity of the Maori Pani, the Hindu Kali, and the Egyptian 

 Isis; as also that "Pani's canoe" was one with the Hindu 

 yoni, or womb of Nature, often symbolised as a boat, and thus con- 

 nected with Kali (tlic wife of Budra, who was represented as Maha- 

 doo, or the ji/iallus,) and the " Ship of Isis," and had a common 

 significance. From the fact that a kanaka form of the name 

 kiunara was itmara, I inferred the possibility of the latter form 

 having been tlic original one, and thus as possibly coimccting it 

 with i'ma, one of the names of Kali. I have since learnt that 



