Blyth.— On ''The Whence of the Maori" 645 



In my next paper I hope to prove that the resemblance 

 between Polynesian beliefs — such as the Deluge — and Asiatic 

 beliefs is very much more than mere coincidence, and are pre- 

 eminently attestive of historical contact ; the evidence being as 

 strong as any I have placed before you in this paper on the 

 stone and serpent-worship, which Mr. Ranken attests must have 

 been derived fi-om elsewhere. It will be seen that the monoliths 

 are used for exactly the same purpose as the Maoris employ the 

 puta-tieke tree ; the practice being a survival of the " cultus of 

 the generative principle," as indicated. The coincidence theory 

 is too facile an explanation to be trusted, and merely " draws a 

 red-herring across the scent," and serves to retard investigation. 

 When the " stone worship and serpent symbols" are scattered 

 from Great Britain — by way of Carthage, Egypt, Ceylon, the 

 Pacific Islands — to the ruined cities of Central America, the 

 reading is "historical contact," not " coincidence." One race has 

 carried it, the Phoenician Kna, the Polynesian Jcmiaka, to the 

 former denizens of Turanian India, or Bharata. 



The importance of Mr. Turnbull Thomson's theory, that the 

 Maori and other so-called Malayo-Polynesians originally migrated 

 from Bharata, the ancient name for Peninsular India, can 

 hardly be exaggerated ; for, as I suggested in the latter end of 

 my paper on this subject, the name kanaka connects the race 

 with the Kna or Phoenicians, and Kanaayiites. I have elsewhere 

 shown that the Phoenicians originally were a Turanian race, 

 inhabiting this veiy region, whence they migrated to the 

 Mediterranean. Kan (the Bibhcal Cain), was a name for a 

 Turanian race inhabiting Peninsular India in times preceding, 

 as well as after, what is generally termed the Deluge, a 

 traditional echo of which is preserved in the Hebrew and other 

 eastern writings. Kan is a name of the god Krishna, a deity 

 originally Turanian, as I have tried to show ; and the second 

 Buddha was named Kanaka Buddha, a name that connects him 

 with the Turanian Kan, the Phreniciau Knd, or Knds, and the 

 Polynesian kanaka. The racial name is still preserved in 

 Peninsular India, as the Coast of Kanara, and the Karnatic, 

 whence the different lines of migration passed eastward and 

 westward. That Kan is a name of Krishna is evidenced in the 

 name Kaupur (Cawnpore)=the city of Krishna ; and, as further 

 evidence of Krishna's Turanian origin, I may mention that at 

 the shrine of Pooree, or Juggernath, the original Turanian 

 Trinity— Eudra or Siva, Uma or Kali, and Jnggernath or 

 Krishna — claim the exclusive devotion of the pilgrims ; a fact 

 that points to the intimate relation that I have tried to establish 

 in my paper as existing between them — viz., as the father, 

 mother, and offspring of all Turanian forms of trinities. 

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