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1777. fay, is a female, reliding in the Iky, and directing the 
thunder, wind, rain ; and, in general, all the changes of 
weather. They believe, that when fhe is angry with 
them, the productions of the earth are blalted ; that many 
things are deltroyed by lightning; and that they them- 
felves are afflidted with ficknefs and death, as well as their 
hogs and other animals. When this anger abates, they 
fuppofe that every thing is reltored to its natural order; 
and it fhould feem, that they have a great reliance on the 
efficacy of their endeavours to appeafe their offended di¬ 
vinity. They alfo admit a plurality of deities, though 
all inferior to Kallafootonga. Amongft them, they men¬ 
tion Toofooa-boolootoo , God of the clouds and fog; Talle - 
teboo , and fome others, redding in the heavens. The firft 
in rank and power, who has the government of the fea, 
and its productions, is called Futtafaihe , or, as it was fome- 
times pronounced, Footafooa ; who, they fay, is a male, 
and has for his wife Fykava kajeea : and here, as in hea¬ 
ven, there are feveral inferior potentates, fuch as Vahaa 
fonooa , Fareeava, Matt aba, Evaroo , and others. The fame 
religious fyftem, however, does not extend all over the 
clutter of the Friendly Ides; for the fupreme God of 
Hapaee , for inltance, is called Alo Alo ; and other ides have 
two or three, of different names. But their notions of the 
power, and other attributes of thefe beings, are fo very 
abfurd, that they fuppofe they have no farther concern 
with them after death. 
They have, however, very proper fentiments about the 
immateriality and the immortality of the foul. They call 
it life, the living principle, or, what is more agreeable to 
their notions of it, an Otooa ; that is, a divinity, or invidble 
being. They fay, that immediately upon death, the fouls 
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