'fltiiii^s Similar in India, etc.. and I\'>lyncsia. 



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Tahitian Leg-end of Taliiai. Cannibals who came there were eventually killed 

 (p. 169) Cannibalism was repudiated by Tahitians from ancient times. 

 Principal gods of Society Islands; 



Hiiaheine Tanc Alataia Oliuab Tiipii 



Tahaa Tanc Tupi, ^i 



I^aiatea Oro ' Rymaraiwa 



Ijolabola Oro Chain Island Tamarii 



Eimeo Oro Sander's Island Taaroa 



Tahiti Oro Tah. Taiarapu Opnnua 



Mauroa Tu Taiarapu Ilalutiri 



Tnhuai Taniai 



Uru-tae-tae was the Tahitian god who conducted de])arted spirits, for whom the 

 priests of Roma-tane were employed, to the place of happiness. 



Tali-ai-tubu. The principal god of the Tongas. God of war. Ts that a name- 

 sake or transfer of the blood-thirsty Indian goddess Kali or Patra-Kali, the wife of Siwa? 



"The Tahitian god Oro was called Koro in Raiatea. The Atituakians say they 

 came from Awaiki, Tetarewa being the first. Awaiki was below. Tetarewa climbed 

 up from it. 



"The chief Makea at Rarotonga in 1840 was the twenty-ninth descendant from 

 Karika, or Makea Karika, who came from Manuka or Manna, one of the Samoan group. 

 He fell in at sea with Tangiia, a chief from Faaa in Tahiti. Tangiia made submis- 

 sion and the two went to Rarotonga and settled there." ( Missionary Enterprises, Rev. 

 J. Williams, Ch. XIII.) 



Ruanuu — Luanuu, a chief at Raiatea. left that island and settled at Aitutaki. 

 Conductor of fleets; his genealogy kept up at Aitutaki. (Id., Ch. VII.) 



In Tahiti the -c'aa were; vaa-mataaina, double canoes belonging to principal chiefs 

 and public districts, fifty, sixty or seventy feet long; three or four feet deep. Stern orna- 

 mented with ///,• then the pahi or war canoe, double, from sixty to one hundred feet 

 long, three to four feet deep. The %'aa-tii. sacred canoes, similar. 



Common double canoe, tipairua. — Haw. kanlna. 



Another kind of double canoe was called mailii. or twins, made from single trees, 

 the others were sewed together from pieces of tanianu or other wood. 



The z'aa-niotn (Island canoe) single, built for sailing, has washboards. All 

 single canoes are provided with outriggers ( ania) fixed on the left side. 



The Paimiotu canoes are much larger and stronger then the Tahitian ones. One 

 from Rurutu had twelve feet depth of hold. 



7'// in Tahitian means spirit of the dead. 



Tiimaaraauta and Tiimaaraatai were the first human beings at Opoa in Raia- 

 tea, whence they spread over the group. The latter is sometimes called Hina. 



Rua-hatu, the Tahitian Neptune, being- asleep in the depth of the ocean, a fisher- 

 man of Raiatea dropped his hooks in the hair of Rua-hatu. Enraged, he came up and 

 threatened to destroy the world. The fisherman inilii'd (apologized), and was told to go 



