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RELIGION. 



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REMARK S 



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imagined a coexifling material hard fubilance neceilary, which ther 



Thefe procreated O-Heena the 



call O-Te-p a pa 



a r 



ock. 



goddefs who created the moon, and prefides in the black cloud 

 which appears in this luminary; Te-whettoo-ma-tarai 

 the creator of the ilars 3 Oqm.arreeo the God and creator 

 of the Seas ; and Orre-orre * who is the God of the Winds., 



But the fea is under the direction of 1 3 Divinities, who all have 



fome peculiar employment, as their name often feems to imply:, 

 their names are the following; i. Ooroo-haddoo, 2. Tamaooee, 



3. Ta-apee, 4. Atoo-areeono, 5.Taneea, 6. Tahou-me- 

 onna, 7. Ota-ma-6u-we, -f 8. OwhAi, ^: 9, O-whatta, 



IP. Ta-ho6a, II. Teoo-t-eiya, 



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Oma-hooroo, 



13. O-wHAPDoo. The great God Tarqa-t'eai-etoomoo lives 



in the fun, and is reprefented as a man, who has fine hair, reaching 

 down to the very ground y he is thought, to be the caufe of the 

 earthquakes, in which cafe the natives call him O-Maouwe, and 

 he is likewife the creator of the fun; a rude reprefentation of this 



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deity, under the attribute of O-Maouwe^ was obferved by Captain 



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Cook, in 1769, when he made the tour 



of Tah 



boat 



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Orrei fignifies wind. 



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^ Ma-ill fignifies a Ihark. 



% Owjhai is called a ftone or pebble. 



§ T'V/ya is a fifh or a fail of a canoe; 



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