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the Aryan cloud- serpent, or dragon, had been engrafted ou that 

 of the Phalhc hfe-serpeut, thus obscuring its true significance : 

 hence, Tawaki, who had been recognized as a god from his 

 girding himself with the lightning, is represented as carrying on 

 a vengeful war against these dark, cloudy, or watery powers 

 who had once overcome him, and hurling the ''toka tamiware," 

 (his ancestors, as his grandmother, Whatitm, the thunder, had 

 termed it,) which probably meant a thunderbolt, against them, 

 and forcing them from the original serpentine life on land to the 

 dragon-like life in the sea. 



I now come to Tiki and Pani. Tiki is, according to the 

 northern Maoris, the husband of Pani. Huruki is also said 

 to be her husband ; but this name may be more fully Huru- 

 tiki, alluding to the top-knot, which, as Mr. Taylor tells us, 

 adoi-ned a chief's head, and was called "he tiki;" and therefore 

 Huruki and Tiki may be the same being. Mr. Colenso also 

 gives the name Maui-whare-kino,* as that of her husband ; and 

 adds, "this is not the hero who bound the sun and moon." 

 Yet, from the name, he evidently belongs to the class of solar 

 gods, and this seems to be the case with Tiki, (as will be shown 

 presently,) so probably they are one. " Of Tiki," Mr. Taylor 

 says, "little is preserved: his great work was that of making 

 man, which he is said to have done after his own image. One 

 account states that he took red clay and kneaded it with his 

 own blood, and so formed the eyes and limbs, and then gave the 

 image breath. Another, that man was formed of clay, and the 

 red-ochreous water of swamps ; and that Tiki bestowed both his 

 own form and name upon him, calling him Tiki-ahua, or Tiki's 

 likeness. The most prized ornament is an uncouth image of 

 man, formed of green-stone, and worn round the neck as an 

 "Heitiki" image, or remembrance of Tiki. The new-born 

 infant is called ' he jwtiki,' or a gift of Tiki from the Po or 

 Hades ; and he adds in a note, ' The word Tiki, in Nukuhiva, 

 or Til, in Hawaiian, means an image, according to Piev. Mr. 

 Buddie.' " 



From this it is plain that Tiki answers to what Mr. Lillie 

 (as already quoted) terms "the solar god-man, or anthropo- 

 morphic Deity, answering to the Logos, or Demiurge, of the 

 Platonists and Gnostics, forming one of several series of 

 Phallo-pantheistic triads or trinities." Tiki, therefore, cor- 

 responds to Krishna and others. We select the following 

 triads from Mr. Lillie's work on Buddhism for comparison. He 

 says, " I have tried to draw a table of this triad idea in the old 

 creeds : — 



* Mau-whare-kino zz " Maui of the dirty house," and may allude to a 

 Turanian form of an Aryan-like sun- god, which (as the husband of Pani, the 

 goddess of the earth and agriculture,) would be likely enough. 



