no Fornander Collection of Hazvalian Folk-lore. 



he have auguries Hke them. His knowledge of complaints was by massage; by feeling 

 the bones and the arteries, and in that way only. 



43. KNOWLEDGE OF THE MASSAGE PRIEST. 



Whenever the massage priest commenced the work of his calling he would feel 

 all over the body, and if the complaint was found in an artery he would say: "Your 

 ailment is in the artery." And so it would be if the ailment was found in the bones. 

 He could discourse on the complaints of the bones. A massage priest would some- 

 times say: "If this ailment continues in the artery, death will be the result." In the 

 same way would he know of death if the ailment was found in the bone. 



If the complaint was located in the bone, and he found that a bone was broken, 

 and had been in that condition for some years, if the massage priest felt the body and 

 found such a disorder, then he would inquire: "Did you have a fracture of the bone?" 

 The reason for this inf|uirv b\- the priest was because he knew that a bone was frac- 

 tured. Sometimes the massage priest would ask: "Did you not fall from a precipice, or 

 from a tree, or from a horse?" 



The young or new-born babes were for the most ]iart taken liefore a massage 

 ])riest, as some people supposed, "in order to cure the ailment in childhood, lest it grow 

 upon them to develop when he becomes man grown." 



44. OF THE IIOOUNAUNA (sENDINg)^^ PRIEST. 



The hoounauna priest was one who sent an evil si)irit into a person not afflicted by 

 disease. He was the keeper of the evil spirit or spirits. 



Evil Spirits. They were gods of the liooiiiiaima priest. If the keeper were to 

 send his gods (the evil spirits) to go and heal a patient, then the healing gods would 

 all go on such service in accordance with the order of the keeper of the gods. The 

 hooitiiauiia priesthood was one of the divisions of the order of medical priests, though 

 they did not practice with medicines, because these ])riests never kept any such. A 

 priest of this class had only one remedy, which was the azm. 



The practices of an liooitnaiiiia priest are not as jilain as that of other ]M-iests, 

 except this; the hoounauna ]M-iest had only the following course to pursue: Supposing 

 that the said hoounauna priest was called to heal a patient, he would go only to ascer- 

 tain the nature of the complaint, and discovering it, he would declare that azva was the 

 first thing to be sought; that when the awa was obtained the hoounauna priest was the 

 only one to drink thereof, for the jjroper ])erformance of his work. The following was 

 what some people said: "Drink the awa that the ancestral spirits (evil spirits) may be 

 jiacified." Then the hoounauna priest, before he drank his cup of awa, would enjoin 

 his gods to go and heal the patient. If one person was envious of another, the hoo- 



"The hoounauna, or sending priest, has been designated and envy were the basis of their service rather than the 



also as a messenger priest. An aktia hoounauna was guardian nature, originally applied to ancestral' spirits, 



termed a messenger god, whose priests claimed the though as these multiplied with the ages and were 



power to send his spirits on messages of service for recognized or acknowledged in certain trees, birds, ani- 



good or ill, according to circumstances. The author mals, fish, insects, etc., it is seen how a malevolent or 



calls aumakuas in this division evil spirits, probably for Ijcnevolent deity may be chosen to meet the special needs 



the reason tliat at the hands of these priests revenge of any case. 



