Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
in some details than I have ever met with elsewhere. My informant had been educated to become a _tohunga_; but had afterwards become a professing Christian. The narrative took place at night unknown to any of his people, and under promise that I would not read what I wrote to...
Sunt autem privata nulla naturâ, sed aut vetere occupatione, ut qui quondam in vacua venerunt; aut victoriâ ut qui bello potiti sunt; aut lege, pactione, conditione, sorte.—Cice...
7. CHAPTER VI.No place in the world ever received a name which could not be accounted for, though there are hundreds of such names of which we can now give no explanation.—_Farrar on Language...
6. CHAPTER V.The Chiefs who came from Hawaiki to Aotea-roa in the canoe Arawa were the following:—Tia, Maka, Oro, Ngatoroirangi, Maru-punganui, Ika, Whaoa, Hei, and Tama-te-kapua. After thei...
5. CHAPTER IV.You ask me about the customs of _Maori_ men, and their origin, how men came to learn them. This is the source whence men learnt them. Their knowledge is not from modern times. P...
4. CHAPTER III.The religious rites and ceremonies of the _Maori_ were strange and complex, and must have been a severe burden, as will be understood from the translations of _Maori_ narratives...
3. CHAPTER II.The _Maori_ had no tradition of the Creation. The great mysterious Cause of all things existing in the Cosmos was, as he conceived it, the generative Power. Commencing with a pr...
2. CHAPTER I.The religious feeling may be traced to the natural veneration of the child for the parent, joined to an innate belief in the immortality of the soul. What we know of the primiti...
1. Chapter ii. contains a tradition as to _Maori_ Cosmogony more particularin some details than I have ever met with elsewhere. My informant had been educated to become a _tohunga_; but had afterwards become a professing Christian. The narrative took p...