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their villages seldom have a longer existence than those of 
the Khonds. 
2. Marriages are celebrated with mock battles and the 
appearance of forcible abduction ; this also was the old 
practice in New Zealand. 
3. Children are named on the eighth day after the Bnkono 
has pronounced what ancestor has sent it. The Maori to- 
hunga repeated a long list of ancestral names,, and if the 
child sneezed, cried, or made any movement whilst a name 
was being pronounced that was the one selected. 
4. Each tribe is presided over by a patriarch, who is the 
representative of a common ancestor ; the tribe is divided 
into several branches, which are ruled by their family 
head ; this also is the same with the Maori ; the patriarch is 
called an ariki, being both priest and chief ; the tribes are 
divided into hapus, and likened to the branches of the cala- 
bash, all being under the family head. 
5. In war the first man who returned unwounded after 
having slain his foe, struck off the right arm, and carried it 
to the priest, who bore it away as an offering to Loha Pennu 
in his grove ; so in New Zealand, the scalp or liver of the 
first slain was given to the priest, who carried it to his Tuahu 
in the sacred grove, as an offering to Maru the god of war. 
6. Man at first had power to move not only on the 
earth but through the air and sea. In Maori myth men 
were formerly endowed with similar powers. 
7. Naturally there is no death; this was also the Maori 
idea. Formerly a kind of inquest was held to ascertain who 
had caused the death, by enchantment, witchcraft, or sor- 
cery, and the seer being consulted, mentioned some one’s 
name, who was sought for and put to death. 
8. Inferior gods, as Nadzu Pennu, who presided over vil- 
lages, Soro Pennu over hills, Jori Pennu over streams, Idzn 
Pennu over families or houses, Moonda Pennu over tanks, 
Jooga Pennu over fountains, Gossa Pennu over forests, 
and Kootti Pennu over ravines. The Maori also had a great 
number of inferior gods presiding over forests, lakes, rivers, 
mountains, and all departments of nature. 
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