'fliiiij^s Sijiiilar in India, etc., and Polynesia. 349 



Polynesians never followed incremation, they practiced exposure and jjreserved the 

 bones of the dead, or a species of embalming and interment in caves. Did they 

 separate from the Iranian branch after the schism, or did they follow the training 

 and customs received from the Cushite teachings? 



"The Polynesians like the ancient Aryans di\ided the night into four portions" 

 (p. 591). "The Hindus call the last night of the old moon, in Sanskrit, knJiu (la Innc 

 cache), and ainaoasi. dwelling with (the sun). The Hawaiians called the 30th day [of 

 the] month, and the Tahitians the 29th day, ninkn, cut ofif, shortened, ceased" (p. 598). 



JJ'arna (Tah.) and waihia (Haw.), spirit, ghost, have phonetic resemblance to 

 Vedic Sanskrit J^aruna, one of the oldest Vedic deities. It is not imijrobable however 

 that "Varuna" derives from ivarna. The Polynesian word is evidently a composite, but 

 as it does not occur in the other dialects, so far as I know, or in a different form, I 

 am unable to analyze it. The Sanskrit J'aniita, however, which is so confidently 

 ascribed to the root or. var., to cover, surround, may by consulting the Polynesian 

 remnant of Old-world languages, be found to dift'erently and equally appropriately refer 

 itself to the Polynesian zva, span, and runa or Inna. above. 



"The ancient Aryans distinguished three heavenly regions, ist, the upper heavens, 

 Dio; 2d, the heaven of clouds, Nabhas: and 3d, the atmosphere, Autarikslia (trans- 

 parent)" (p. 665). "The Polynesians had the distinction of three heavens, viz: that 

 of Kane, Ku, Lono. Of origin of fire, E. Aryan and W. Aryan" (\\ (^jg). 



The ancient inhabitants of Yemen worshiped and canonized their ancestors. 



Polyandry in Arabia, as mentioned by Strabo, was of Cushite origin, as well as 

 the community of goods between brothers under the administration of the eldest, still 

 practiced by the Narikas of Malabar, and the remnants of the jirimitive populations of 

 ante-Aryan India. (Lenormant, Vol. II, p. 318.) 



There is one custom which, practiced by the Polynesians, was opposed to Hebrew 

 or Egyptian; viz., the feeding on swine's flesh and rearing them for food as well as 

 for sacrifice to the gods. (See Rawlinson's Herodotus. II, 47, n. 5.) 



In Egyptian hieroglyphics the negative sign is a pair of extended arms with the 

 hands downward, preceding the verb. The mute but emphatic negati\'e of the Hawaiian 

 is expressed by turning the hand over with the palm downward. 



The Egyptians were permitted to marry their sisters by the same father and 

 mother. And in patriarchal times a man was permitted to marry a sister, the datighter 

 of his father only. ( Rawlinson, Herodotus. Ill, 32, n. i.) -Among Hawaiian chiefs 

 such marriages gave additional rank and exalted position to the oft'spring — to the 

 children of Keawe and Kalanikaula, for example. 



The custom of sacrificing their first prisoner (in war) is ascribed by Procopius 

 to the Thulite or Scandinavians. (Bell. Goth. II. 15; Rawlinson's Herodotus. VII, 

 180, n. 4.) 



An ancient Hawaiian legend runs as follows (Polynesian Race, \'ol. I, p. 99): 

 Kealii-Wahanui was the king of the country called "Honua-i-lalo." He oppressed the 

 Lahui IMenehune. Their God Kane sent Kane Apua and Kanaloa, his elder brother, to 



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