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42. Then Tangaloa gave his parting command thus : — 'Always 

 show respect to Manu'a ; if any one do not, he will be overtaken 

 by calamity ; but let each one do as he likes with his own lands/ 



43. [Here] the story of the creation of Samoa finishes with this 

 parting command, which was given at Malae-La. 



Notes to the Story of Creation. 



Par. 1. Punjil; for an account of Punjil and his works, see E,. Brough 

 Smyth's "Aborigines of Victoria," Vol. I., and for Baiamai, see Ridley's 

 " Kamilaroi." 



Baiamai ; in the text I have given this form of the name, for it is the 

 common one ; but I think that it ought to be written Ba-ye-mai ; for 6 a 

 is the root ' to make/ b a-y e means ' one who makes/ and m a i is a forma- 

 tive termination. 



Kamalarai ; this name for a native language and tribe in New South 

 Wales has always been written Kamilaroi ; but the composition of the 

 word requires the spelling Kamalarai, for it is made up of Jca (dialect ley a) 

 * not/ -ma I and -arai, which are common formative suffixes. 



Dhara-mulan ; a demiurge figures in many of the ancient cosmogonies. 

 The Egyptian demiurge Thoth created light for the world, while as yet 

 there was no sun, and in the Orphic hymns, light exists before the sun ; 

 cf. note 4, s. v. Aether. In the Kamalarai legends, Dhara-mulan seems 

 to have a two-fold aspect, and hence the -mulan in his name may be the 

 word bula, 'two.' 



Breathed very hard ; cf. "He breathed into his nostrils the breath of 

 life." The Polynesian here and in other respects agrees with the Egyp- 

 tian and the Hebrew Cosmogonies, which commence with chaos, regard 

 light as anterior to the sun, postulate the moulding hand of a deity in 

 creation and a divine breath as the source of life. The Polynesian 

 cosmogony has also, the idea of the unity of Grod ; for the gods are all 

 Tangaloa. It agrees with the Avesta in tracing creation to the will of a 

 deity and in ascribing perfection — " it is good " — to the thing created ; 

 Ahuramazda is the sole creator who made heaven and earth and men. 

 In India also, the Self-existing One by a thought made the waters. The 

 Babylonian Cosmogony considers water as the primal element from which 

 life came ; the Polynesian does not. 



2. Punjil' s brother; cf. the relation of Zeus to Poseidon. 



Cut into pieces; cf. the Hebrew verb bar a, 'to create/ which properly 

 means ' to fashion,' ' to shape.' 



Worms ; cf. a subsequent note on Fue-tagata. 



3. The details thereof; for these, see Eev. Dr. Gill's " Myths and Songs " 

 and Sir George Grey's " Polynesian Mythology." 



