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was formed of ba/ket-work, and covered with black and white RELIGIONw 



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This is the only inftance of a figure or reprefentation of 

 their divinities which I ever heard' of; anti Capt. Cook does not 

 mention that any refped- or reverence was paid to this- rude figure.- 

 of Maouwe. The natives ha 



ve a tradition that the great Deity 



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procreated the inferior divinities, each of whom created the part of 



the world 



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care 



the feas, another the 



moon 



ilars 



the birds, fifhes, &c. &c. 0-Maouwe created 



the fun, and then took the immenfe vock O-l'e-papa, his wife, and 

 dragged her from Weft to Eaft through the feas : , when the illes, 

 which the natives now inhabit, were broken off; after which he 

 left this great land to the Eaft, where it ftill exifts.- The care and 

 government of each illand was committed to the inferior divinities, 



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enumerated before. The god ^i/zd-, is not more particularly ad- 



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drefted than the reft of his brother divinities, nor is he fuppofed to 



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take a greater part in the affairs of mankind, ^except at Huaheine, 

 which place is under his peculiar infpe6tion, and where he is wor- 



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fhipped as the tutelar divinity of that country. Befides thefe divi- 

 nities of the fecond clafs, there are others of a ftill inferior rank. 



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and though called Eatooas, are no more than what the Greek or 

 Roman Mythologifts would have called Genu, or D// Minorum. 



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