50 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



To ara 



Hacre i tua, haere i waho 



Haere i te maramatanga 



Haere i nga kapua o te rang' 



Haere ma hihi ora 



Ki te whai ao 



Ki te ao marama 



Ko rou ora. 



Haere i a moana mii 



Haere i a moana roa 



Haere i a moana te takiritia 



Ki te whai ao 



Ki te ao marama 



Ko rou ora. 



(4.) The Oho rangi Rite. 



The oho rayiqi ceremony caused the heavens to thunder, 

 and was designed to give mana (power) to the preceding rites 

 and incantations. It was believed that if the thunder rolled 

 at the call of the tohunga, then the sick person would certain ly 

 recover. But if it did not, that was a bad omen. 



The oho rangi rite was performed when the sun was declin- 

 ing. " For," said an old Maori, "when man was in the grasp of 

 death, then tears for his plight were demanded from the heavens, 

 and the wise men of old called on the thunders to sound." 



The Tuaimu Rite — to render the Disease (Atua) powerless. 



This rite consists in the performance of certain ceremonies 

 and the repetition of certain karakia known as tuaimu or 

 tuaumu (tua, to subdue), the object being to render the hostile 

 .sorcerer, his atua and his karakia, powerless. 



For this purpose the priest would obtain a piece of one of 

 the plants which come under the generic term puha or puwha, 

 to which he added a piece of dead ember from the fire. Taking 

 the herb and ember, he would pass them round the left thigh 

 of the invalid, from left to right. He would then wave his ham! 

 containing those two articles towards the heavens, the objects 

 themselves being afterwards taken to the tuahu or sacred place 

 of the village, where, it is said, another invocation was repealed 

 in order to restore health to the invalid. It appears to have 



I n believed that the ahua, or semblance, or personality, of 



the disease became, as it were, absorbed into the articles passed 

 round the thigh, and that in the waving of them towards the 

 heavens the said personality flew off into space. This singular 

 custom was performed on the lefl side because thai is the taha 

 ruahine, the female side and the noa (common or tapu-leas) 

 side of man. The left side of man has great uuunt although it 

 be not tapu. 



