632 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Tawaki went and saw the toka tmnlware which stood there. 

 He asked the old woman, ' What is this ?' Waitiri replied, ' Do 

 not touch them with your hands ; they are your ancestors.' 

 Then Tawaki stumbled against it ; the stone fell down by the 

 sea. Tawaki went crying, ' You also shall cry, who slew me.' 

 From that stone that fell commenced the revenge which Tawaki 

 took against his brethren. He drove the shark and the dog-fish 

 from the land, and compelled them henceforth to live in the 

 sea." 



From her name, Tawaki's grandmother Waitiri, or Whatitiri, 

 which means " the thunder," is probably to be connected with 

 the cloud; and so is probably to be regarded as of the black, or 

 Turanian order ; Kaitangata and Anonokia are probably to be 

 classed with the Aryan order, for reasons I hope to fully set 

 forth in a paper on the Aryan element in Maori legend. This is 

 why, probably, Kaitangata treats his dusky children with indig- 

 nity : " Hu ! the filthy children !" In the Maori story, a new 

 name is introduced, Punga. It will be remembered that, in the 

 Hindu version, Krishna has a twin-brother, his white counter- 

 part. In the Maori story, Punga seems a counterpart of Karihi. 

 1 am inclined to think that Mr. Taylor has made some mistake 

 in his explanation of the name Punga. Punga, in the north, 

 is an eel-pot, and karihi would be its sinker ; and they are 

 thus, as it were, really one. The exoteric rendering given would 

 then be, " You, Punga, are your father's ' eel-pot,' and you, 

 Karihi ; you are its ' sinker ;' and your sister, Whakama- 

 Kanga, is ' my shame.' " I cannot help thinking we have here 

 an exoteric allusion to the phallic idea, worked in with the legend. 

 The eel, (which I have reason to believe took the place of the 

 phallic serpent in Maori mythology, as I hope to prove in my 

 next paper,) the pot, and its sinkers, would represent the j^enis, 

 scrotum, and testes of the phallic male emblem ; while the female 

 emblem would be represented by Whakama-Eauga, in covert 

 reference to the significance of Uma, the original of Hcma, 

 which, I believe, is etymologically connected with the Sanskrit 

 vambha, meaning the womb. I have to hazard this last state- 

 ment, as I have no means at present of verifying it : I have 

 had to trust to memory in this matter, antl may be I am not 

 quite correct in this derivation ; but my impression is that it is 

 correct. Thus, we find, not only the names of the Turanian 

 deities preserved, but the principal features of the Phallic faith 

 enmeshed cleverly with the regular lines of the story. 



That Punga and Karihi are said to beget lizards, and sharks, 

 and dog-fish, ratlier confirms the view of their Turanian and 

 reptilian nature (or, ratlier, the reptilian characteristics of the 

 cult in which they figured). And that they are roughly dealt 

 with at the hands of the arikis, or Aryo-Maori priests, is as 

 might have been expected ; for by this time the malific idea of 



