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ousness may be mingled with their actions, 
as well as professions of kindness ; and are 
therefore taught the necessity of some degree 
of caution in our transactions with them. 
Probably, we are in no danger at present, 
from an open attack, as they stand in dread 
of our fire-arms ; but what craft or strata- 
gem the may use to injure us we cannot 
tell ; sal therefore, we keep a guard of two 
brethren, through the ou of the night, 
to prevent any sudden alarm.” 
The Theogony of the Otaheiteans 
might form as wild a poem as was ever 
made of the fables of Grecian faith. The 
general name for Deity, in all its ramifi- 
cations, is Eatooa. They hold three to 
be supreme—Tane, the Father; Oro- 
mattow, the Son; and T'aroa, the Bird 
or Spirit. So say the missionaries ; the 
prism through which they have looked 
has probably coloured this, but we fully 
believe that they have represented it as 
they -have seen it. The other greater 
Gods, among whom are Orohho, Oehaw- 
how, Tamma, Toaheite and Vaveah, 
they call fwhanow po, the children of 
snight. In the beginning Tane took 
Taroa, and begat Avye, the fresh water ; 
Atye, the sea; Awa, the water-spout ; 
Matai, the wind; Arye, the sky; and 
Po, the night. Next he begat Mahanna, 
the sun, who was born in the shape of 
aman, called Oeroa Tabooa, and then 
the Father ceased from the work of 
creation. Oeroa had by Townoo (whose 
origin does not appear) the thirteen 
months ; then she returned to earth, 
and he embraced the Rock Poppoharra- 
Harreha, which conceived and brought 
forth a son, after which the rock return- 
ed to its original state, and the Father 
of the Months himself died and went 
to dust. The son Tetooboo-amata-hatoo 
embraced the sand of the sea, and begat 
ason and a daughter Tee and Opeera, 
then he also returned to earth. The 
brother and sister married, and had issue 
a daughter, Oheera-Reene-Moonoa.— 
Opeera afterwards fell sick, and request- 
ed her husband to heal her, promising 
in his illness to do the same for him, 
and thus they should both live for:evecr ; 
but Tee let her die, and married his 
daughter: their children peopled the 
earth. The stars they believe to be the 
offspring of the sun and moon ; and when 
the sun and moon are eclipsed, they sup- 
‘pose them in the act of generation. 
- Tee, with some reference to this com- 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
Each family has its Tee, supposed to be 
one of their departed relatives, who for 
his superior excellencies, has been exalt- 
ed to an Eatooa or Divinity. This re- 
sembles the Cami-worship, the old reli- 
gion of Japan, and is a part perhaps 
of all superstitions, from Hero-worship 
to Saint-worship. ' 
AvTae ema nev THTO yevos naTa yaa xaArupe 
Ta pry Oxipoves tiote Atos peyare ia Beras, 
Eodaa, emir O2v10ly QuAaxes Sunray avocwTwy" 
Oi ex QuAaccea: Te Dinas now ONETAIA Epy% 
Hepa ecousevor, Wave DoTwvres eM cetcey 
TlAsrodoras* Kas rato yeeus Bagidnioy error. 
Hestop. 
When in the graye this race of men was laid, 
Soon was a world of holy daemons made : 
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design’d, _ 
To be on earth the guardians of mankind ; 
Invisible to mortal eyes they go, 
And mark our actions, good or bad, below. 
The immortal spies with watchful care pre- 
side, 
And thrice ten thousand round their.charges , 
glide ; 
They can reward, with glory or with gold, 
A power they by divine permission hold. 
Cooxe’s Works anpr Days. 
Thistutelar God, the Otaheiteans be- 
lieve, can inflict sickness or remove it, 
-and can preserve them from a malignant 
Deity, called Tee also, who has no 
power but upon earth, and is always 
employed in mischief. These spirits 
are very powerful. The remarkable 
peaked mountain in Taloo harbour, is 
said to be but a part of what it origi- 
nally was. Some spirits, from Ulietea, 
had broken off the other half, and were 
transporting it down the bay to carry 
it away ; but they were obliged to drop 
it near the mouth of the harbour, where 
it now stands conspicuous as a rock ; for 
the break of day had overtaken them, ~ 
and they*’*walk and work by night.— — 
These household deities are, as may be © 
supposed, more prone to anger ‘than to 
kindness ; for it is the characteristic of — 
superstition to fear the unseen powers, — 
not to love chem. Some of the natives 
told these missionaries that they were — 
afraid to say much to them in cénsure of 
Temaree, for fear of the gods which he — 
had in his house, who would come at — 
night when they were asleep and kill — 
them; and when it was attempted to — 
show them that these fears were ground- 4 
the island, if what they said was not — 
less, they appealed to two Swedes upon 
mon father, is become the. name of the 
guardian Spirit or Household God.— 
true. Pomere, the father of the reigning — 
king, dreamt in the night that “his Tee ‘ 
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