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king there were two rulers — one the head of the State, the 
other of the Church. The king was still however a sacred 
character, David wore the ephod, Solomon offered up prayer 
for Israel at the dedication of the temple. 
After the Captivity the two offices were again united 
in the same person, whilst the regal power remained in 
the family of the Maccabees. In the Lama and the Pope 
we see this union continued, whilst in Japan the Mikado 
and Tirkoon are spiritual and temporal heads, so in the 
Tonga Isles until they were separated, but both are now 
united in the Ariki. Amongst the Maori, the number of 
high chiefs being greater, the power of any single individual 
is of course only in proportion to his temporal position 
amongst his confreres. 
The reverence for the head seems to have some connection 
with that for the ariki. The head of the person, as well as 
the head of the tribe, was sacred ; nothing common could 
touch it. 
To return to the subject of idols. The chief use to which 
they were devoted was to render sacred their plantations ; 
the image was stuck in the ground and powerful spells 
uttered to make the men sacred, that none of those em- 
ployed should leave the work before it was finished, pass 
over, or even enter them, except for their cultivation. This 
was done at the tokcinga, or planting ; the ceremony was 
again repeated when the kumara began to grow, and again 
at the hauhaJcenga , or in-gathering. Certain stones, or 
tuahu, had offerings of the liver of the first killed in battle 
placed upon them. 
There was also a household god, an image in the form 
of an infant, which belonged solely to females ; this was 
nursed by those who were barren, as if it were a baby, 
to remove the reproach ; it was made with great care, 
and generally as large as a child, adorned with the 
family jewels, and the same garments which they usually 
wear, and was addressed in the same endearing terms, 
but no religious rites were used. Thompson, in his work 
entitled, “ The Law and the Book,” has a passage which 
