– 484 –

– 485 –

Index

• Aborigines. (See Mouriuri)
• Abortion, How procured 257
• Absolutory rites 266, 267, 285
• Abstraction, Faculty of 129, 305
• Address, Terms of 370
• Adultery 474
• Agility result of training 7
• Agnatic filiation 361
• Agriculture 390
• Agriculture and moon 131, 132, 133
• Agriculture myths 131, 133
• Agriculture permits of dense population 46
• Ahi amoamohanga—A first fruits rite 268
• Ahi horokaka—A war rite 268
• Ahi komau—Subterranean fire 108
• Ahi manawa—A tapu ceremonial fire 268
• Ahi marae—A war rite 268
• Ahi matiti rite—A magic rite 336
• Ahi purakau—Tree-felling ceremonial 268
• Ahi tahoka—A magic rite 268
• Ahi taitai—A sacred ritual fire 268, 309
• Ahi tapu (See Fire—Tapu fires) 268
• Ahi tipua—Subterranean fire 108
• Ahi torongu—A magic rite 268
• Ahi tumuwhenua—Tree-felling ceremony 268
• Ahi tupua a Hine-te-uira—Lightning 161
• Ahoaho o Tukapua—The Cloud House 162
• Aho ariki—Primogeniture 351
• Ahua—Semblance of a being, quality, etc. 310, 311, 392
• Ahua of vessel 321
• Ahurangi—A tuahu, or sacred place 293
• Ahurei—A tuahu, or sacred place 290
• Ahurewa, Te—A sacred place (See Tuahu) 70, 89, 292
• 'Aifa'arua'i of Taha'a Island 191
• Aitu 93
• Aitua—Omens, misfortune, etc. 93
• Aitua personifies misfortune 177, 231
• Aitupawa—A personification 100, 101, 103, 238
• Aka-roroa, Te—To Chatham Isles 60
• Akonga—Scholars (See Pia. Taura) 71
• Albinism 7
• Alphabet, Maori 17

  – 486 –

• Altars (See Ahurewa. Tuahu. Wahi tapu)
• Ameto 325
• Amoamohanga—First fruits 402
• Amorangi—Emblem of atua 72, 283
• Ancestors, Eponymic 344
• Angaanga—Spirit, etc. 300
• Animals known to Maori in far land 434
• Animatism 198, 199, etc.
• Ant and Cicada—A fable 217
• Anthropogenic myths 85
• Anthropometrical data 3
• Anu-matao—A primal condition 163
• Aokehu the Dragon Slayer 193
• Ao marama, Te—The world of life 95
• Aotea canoe 56, 64
• Aotea—Origin of name 41
• Ao-tu, Te—Te Ao-hore, etc. 162
• Ao-turoa, Te—This world 109, 118
• Aphorisms (See Proverbs)
• Apologetic expressions 437
• Apunga, Te—And vegetation 114
• Arai-te-uru canoe 56
• Ara matua—An astronomical term 321, 322
• Ara moana or sea roads 20, 31
• Ara tamatane—Male line of descent 361
• Aratauwhaiti canoe 356
• Aratawhao sails for Polynesia 56
• Ara tiatia, Te—Path to heavens 101, 321
• Arawa canoe 56–64
• Arawaru, Te—Origin of Shellfish 155
• Ara whanui a Tane—Spirit path 320, 321, 322
• Are vananga of Rarotonga—School of Learning 67
• Ariā—Form of incarnation, etc. 226, 274, 311
• Ariā of gods 242
• Ariki—First-born males of high rank 345
• Ariki—Selection of an unusual occurrence 349
• Ariki—Tapu of 349
• Ariki tauaroa 346
• Ariki deferred to 351, 352
• Aristocratic leanings of Maori 348, 352
• Aro—Mind, etc. (See Hinengaro. Ngakau) 313
• Arorangi in New Zealand and Rarotonga 211
• Artistic sense of Maori (See Decorative art) 17
• Asiatic—Polynesian parallels 127, 280, 296, 297
• Aspersion and immersion in rites 267
• Ata, Ata-a-rangi—Soul, etc. (See Wairua) 299
• Atahu rite—White magic 464
• Atea—Personifies space (See Watea) 92
• Atiawa raid Chatham Isles 63

  – 487 –

• Attitudes 436
• Atua, A watch viewed as an 229
• Atua kahu 241, 242
• Atua—Meaning of term 234
• Atua whiro 106
• Auahi-turoa—Comet 151
• Aura-like quality of man 307, 308, 335
• Aurora australis, Mythical cause of 40
• Awanui, Te—The caco-dæmon 241
• Awe or refined aspect of human soul 303
• Balance pole 402
• Banshee of Te Whaiti 202
• Basket of Evil 82, 328
• Baskets, Conical (See Food, 419) 430
• Baskets of Knowledge, Three 69, 73, 103
• Bat, Origin of 171
• Battle between Dogs and Lizards 185
• Battle between Fish and Man 181
• Battle of the Birds 178
• Beattie, H.—South Island notes 80
• Beauty appreciated by Maori 120
• Berries eaten by natives 429, 431
• Betrothal ceremonies 257, 258, 454
• Beverages 434
• Bird snaring 400
• Bird-snaring restrictions 254
• Bird tipua, or demons 202
• Birds and Rehua 114
• Birds as messengers in white magic 467
• Birds, Battle of the 178
• Birds, Myths concerning 215, 216, 224, 229
• Birds, Origin of (See Bat. Owl) 104, 114, 171
• Birds personified 97, 99, 176
• Birds released in rites 280, 286, 287
• Birds (See Seabirds, Bat, Cuckoo, Owl)
• Birds shall be oviparous 114
• Birth assisted by flute playing 298
• Birth ceremonies 116, 284, 297
• Birth (See conception)
• Birth of primal offspring 94–95
• Black folk of homeland 22
• Bligh's long boat voyage 36
• Blood as a medium in sympathetic magic 147
• Blue paint 348
• Bones of dead employed in rites 283
• Boundaries, Knowledge of carefully taught 394
• Boundaries of tribal and clan lands 394
• Boundary marks 395

  – 488 –

• Bowels as seat of feelings and mind 312
• Bowls 423, 424
• Brothers rocks are tapu 386
• Burdens—How carried 10, 402
• Cæsarian operation 126, 207
• Camp fires 436
• Cannibalism 10, 212
• Canoe awning 28
• Canoe destroyed on account of tapu 255
• Canoe making a tapu task 255
• Canoe paddling 31
• Canoe race at Tahiti 48
• Canoe, Cant lashings of 28
• Canoes, Carvel built 28
• Canoes, Double 26, 28, 30, 34, 54
• Canoes, Large 30
• Canoes of Polynesia 30
• Canoes of voyagers under tapu 33
• Canoes, Outrigger 26, 28
• Canoes prepared for storm 33
• Canoes, Rate of sailing 31
• Canoes, Structure of 28
• Canoes, War 28
• Canoes with two masts 30
• Canoes with three masts 34
• Canoes (See Sails. Vessels)
• Canoes (See Aotea. Arai-te-uru. Ara-tauwhaiti. Ara-tawhao. Arawa. Hawai. Horouta. Houama. Kahutara Kurahaupo. Mahuhu. Mamari. Matahorua. Matatua. Nukutere. Okoki. Oturereao. Paepae-ki-Rarotonga. Rangimatoru. Ririno. Tangi-apakura. Tawirirangi. Uruao. Waimate.)
• Captives, Curious requests of 397
• Carrying burdens 10, 402
• Carving (See Wood carving)
• Celtic myth of Flower Face 123
• Challenging visitors 375
• Character of Maori 348
• Charm repeated by travellers 201
• Charms (See Karakia. Magic)
• Chatham Isles discovered by Toi 49
• Chatham Isles, Kahu settles at 225
• Chatham Isles, Myths of 131, 132, 148
• Chatham Isles, Notes from 155, 161, 302, 314
• Chatham Isles raided by Maori 63
• Chatham Isles settled 60, 225
• Chiefs, Titles of (See Ariki. Toi Ariki. Upoko ariki. Whatukura) 345

  – 489 –

• Chieftainship 345, 451, 453
• Chieftainesses, Titles of 346, 348
• Children 409
• Children, Training of 411
• Cicada and Ant. Fable 217
• Civil law, Substitutes for 356, 358
• Civil law unknown 356
• Class, Lower social 346
• Classes, Social 345, 351
• Clay eating 432
• Cloud Children 109, 142, 162
• Cloud Children and their Cloud House 112, 162
• Cloud Maid, Birth of 116
• Clouds appointed to screen the Earth Mother 162
• Clouds, Origin of 109, 162
• Clouds personified 99, 105, 142, 162, 175
• Coconut, Mythical origin of 141
• Cold, Personified forms of 95, 175
• Comet brings fire to earth 151
• Comets, Personified forms of 175
• Communal life of Maori 342
• Compass unknown to Polynesians 26
• Conception caused by magic tree 297
• Confession and absolution 266, 285
• Conscience awakened by white magic 336
• Conscription not necessary in Maoriland 355
• Cook Straits, Crossing of under restrictions 386
• Cooking 416
• Cooking Sheds 419
• Cooking—Steam ovens 416
• Cooking Stones 419
• Cooking, Superstitions connected with 423
• Cooking (See Kohupara. Kope. Tapora. Tukohu)
• Copulation, Ceremonial 294
• Cordyline as a food product 427
• Cosmogonic genealogies 91, 92
• Cosmogonic myths 85, 91, 123, 153
• Cosmogonic tree 91
• Counting (See Numeration) 439
• Courtship 461, 464
• Covering head, Custom of 437
• Covering mouth, Custom of 436
• Craniometry, Maori 3
• Creation chaunt 86
• Crescent symbol in New Zealand and Polynesia 139
• Crescent symbol of moon god of agriculture carved on spade 139
• Crop failure, Cause of 231
• Cuckoo 180
• Cult of Io (See Io) 233

  – 490 –

• Cult of Io a restricted one 235
• Cultivated products introduced from Polynesia 60
• Cultivation grounds tapu 256
• Currents, Ocean, Studied by voyagers 34
• Dancing, Ceremonial 284
• Dancing, Peculiar mode of 168
• Dancing, Posture 284
• Darkness a primal condition 93, 94
• Dawn Maid 118, 119, 123
• Dawn Maid, Description of 120
• Dawn Maid descends to underworld 118
• Dawn Maid deserts Tane 118
• Dawn Maid protects souls of dead 314
• Day and Night separated 112
• Death and setting Sun 319
• Death becomes permanent 118
• Death enters the World 147
• Death, Sun connected with 132
• Death, Tapu of 252
• Decorative art 7, 17, 46
• Deluge myths 148
• Deluge myths as a product of Christian teachings 149
• Departmental deities (See Gods) 130
• Diet of Maori 425
• Discovery of New Zealand 41
• Disease 10, 336
• Disease, Controllers of 105
• Disease personified by Maiki brethren 106, 177
• Disposition of Maori 10
• Divinatory rites 329, 400, 402
• Division of labour 400, 402
• Divorce 475
• Dog, Native 434
• Dogs and lizards, Battle of 185
• Domestic implements 420
• Domestic usages 374
• Domestic vessels 423
• Dreams, Maori faith in 225, 228, 240
• Drift voyage from Asia 20
• Drift voyage causes Polynesians to settle in New Zealand 48
• Drift voyage of Mouriuri folk 5, 42
• Drift voyage of 1,300 miles 24
• Drift voyages in Pacific 34
• Drift voyagers reach New Zealand 42
• Ear piercing 407
• Earth is feminine and passive 113
• Earth, Names for the 174

  – 491 –

• Earth Mother, The (See Rangi and Papa) 94
• Earth Mother and maternal love 408
• Earth Mother clothed with vegetation 109
• Earth Mother, Overturning of 108
• Earthquakes, Cause of 100
• Earthquakes personified 99, 100, 175
• Earthworms eaten 432
• Easter Island, Crescent symbol at 139
• Easter Island, Long Ears of 21
• Echoe Children 134
• Education of native youths 394
• Eel and first woman (See Tuna) 479
• Eel and serpent. Phallic 140
• Eel as generator 479
• Eel personified 177
• Eels, Mythical origin of 108
• Eels (See Puhi. Tuna)
• Eggs, First produced 114
• Elements, Guardians of 105
• Elixir of life 242
• Emotions, Seat of 312, 313
• Epidemic caused by a watch 229
• Esoteric aspect of cult of Io 235
• Esoteric knowledge brought to earth 104
• Esoteric knowledge highly tapu 65
• Eternal life sought by Maui 147, 148
• Ethics impinge upon religion 266, 287
• Europeans invent a Maori hell 324
• Evening Maid, The 111
• Evil exists in this world only 171
• Evil, Origin of 89, 106, 107
• Fables 214, 216, 217
• Face painting 348
• Facial distortion, Maori powers of 439
• Faculties of Maori, Mental (See Mentality) 129
• Fair-haired natives (See Fairies. Urukehu) 7, 161, 220, 361
• Fairies (See Forest) 165, 168, 173, 219
• Fairies, Fair-skinned, etc. 219
• “Familiars” 238
• Family life unknown 361
• Family, True. No term to denote 364
• Family, True. Not a social unit 341
• Family group develops into tribe 340
• Fasting 266
• Fatalistic spirit of Maori 10
• Feasts 379
• Feathers concealed in forest 254
• Features of Maori 10

  – 492 –

• Female organ, Protective powers of 296
• Female element in tapu lifting 261
• Female element, Search for 113
• Female titles 346, 348, 350
• Fern roots, How prepared for food 427
• Festivals (See Feasts) 385
• Fiji a Melanesian outpost 38
• Filiation 361, 477
• Fines paid in goods 359
• Fire attacks Maui 145
• Fire, Certain peoples ignorant of 167, 206
• Fire Children 144, 151
• Fire Childen avenged by Hine-nui-te-Po 147
• Fire generated in rites 79
• Fire myths (See Auahi-turoa. Fire Children. Hine-kaiko-mako. Ira. Mahuika.)
• Fire of the underworld 108
• Fire, Origin of 151
• Fire procured by Maui 144, 146
• Fire procured from Rakahore 108
• Fire procured from sun (See Auahi-turoa)
• Fire, Sacred (See Ahi. Tapu fires)
• Fire seeks refuge in trees 145
• Fire walking 270
• Fireplaces (See Takuahi) 291
• First fruits rite 279
• First inhabitants of New Zealand 5, 42
• Fish and Tangaroa 155
• Fish—How they acquired their present forms 184
• Fish, Origin of 155
• Fish, Personified forms of 97, 177
• Fish tribes attack Man 181, 183
• Fish (See Inanga)
• Fishing nets, How art of making was acquired 219
• Flute played in cases of difficult parturition 298
• Flying men 211
• Folk lore 125, 126, 129, 164, 165, 177, 211, 223
• Folk lore (See Fables. Fairies. Taniwha. Tupua)
• Food abolishes tapu 81
• Food baskets 419
• Food bearing processions 377
• Food, Formula recited over 424
• Food—How served 419
• Food products—How protected 390, 393
• Food supplies 425
• Food supplies allotted to guests 384
• Forest lore 176, 254, 307, 308, 390, 391, 400
• Forest, Mythical denizens of (See Fairies) 212, 219, 221, 222, 224
• Formula recited in marriage ceremony (See Karakia) 469

  – 493 –

• Formula recited over food 424
• Fountain of youth (See Waiora a Tane) 138
• Four Way Path 321
• Frost Children 152
• Frost—How averted 270
• Fuel,—How procured 401
• Fungi as a food supply 432
• Gait of natives 436
• Gait of native women 408
• Genealogies enter into ritual 284, 469
• Genealogies recited in birth charms 469
• Genealogists, Maori as 344
• Genealogy of 1,400 names recited by Tamarau 344
• Gestures 19, 51, 438
• Ghosts—How laid 270
• Ghosts (See Kehua. Whakahaehae)
• Giants 224
• Gifts (See Presents) 385
• Girl confined in a “dovecote” 453
• Gods carried by voyagers 33
• Gods, Classification of 234
• Gods, Departmental 236
• Gods, Fourth class 238
• Gods, how developed 241, 242
• Gods, Mediums of (See Aria) 240, 241
• Gods, Offerings to (See Offerings) 236, 240
• Gods protect food products 305, 307
• Gods spoke in whistling tone 248
• Gods that die 243
• Gods, Third class 238
• Gods warn human mediums 240
• Godwit—Annual flight to Siberia 317
• Golden Way of Tane-te-waiora 320
• Gourd bowls 424
• Greenstone, Discovery of 41
• Greenstone, Myths connected with (See Poutini) 164
• Greenstone, Origin of 163
• Greenstone, Personified forms of 176
• Greenstone seeks a refuge in New Zealand 164
• Greetings 371
• Grinding stones 165
• Grubs eaten 432
• Guests, Reception of (See Visitors) 375, 384
• Ha and Io 90
• Haere-awaawa—Origin of the wood hen 114
• Haere, Uenuku, etc., represent rainbow 156, 238
• Hair as ariā or semblance of person, etc. 274

  – 494 –

• Hair as offering to gods 272, 273
• Hair cutting 272
• Hair cutting as a religious function 272, 273
• Hair cutting a tapu task 257
• Hair cutting by mourners 273
• Hair imparts mana to charms 273, 391
• Hair of Maori (See Fairhaired. Urukehu) 7
• Hair of women 408
• Hair used in rites 272, etc.
• Hakari (See Feasts. Festivals) 379
• Hakari, Origin of 385
• Hakari stages 381
• Hakari taonga 385
• Hallucination 250
• Hangi or steam oven 416
• Haowhenua—House of Rongo 101
• Hapu or clan, subtribe 340
• Harmony preserved in universe 105
• Harore (See Fungi)
• Harvest feast 385
• Hau and ohonga—Aura and medium 332
• Hau of footprint 335
• Hau of man and lands 307
• Haumia 99, 114, 237
• Hau o Pohokura—A wind 208
• Hauora—A condition 308
• Haupapa-nui-a-tau, Land of 42
• Hau-te-horo reaches New Zealand from Chatham Isles 60
• Hawai, Te—The vessel of Whatonga 50
• Hawaiian Isles, Settlement of 22
• Hawaiians reach Tahiti 36, 39
• Hawaiki 21
• Hawaiki-nui 104, 320, 321
• Hawaiki-nui o maruaroa 322
• Hawaiki, Place names of 323
• Hawaiki-rangi 104, 320
• Hawaiki-whakaeroero 320
• Hawaiki (See Isles)
• Hawk and fire 145, 146
• Hawk and hokioi 215
• Head covered on certain occasions 437
• Heavens, Twelve 88
• Heavens, Twelve, Denizens of 88
• Heavens, Twelve, Names of 88
• Heavenly bodies, Origin of 92, 97, 109
• Heavenly bodies placed on high 111
• Heavenly bodies (See Moon. Stars. Sun. Whanau marama)
• Heketoro, or fairies 219, 222
• Hell and defective ethics 325

  – 495 –

• Hema at Hawaii 153
• Herbal medicines 390
• Heriheri kai—Food-bearing procession 377
• Hikurangi, Mt. 149, 203
• Hikurangi, Mt., Ogre of 208
• Hiku-watea, Te 155
• Hina (personified form of moon) 131, 132, 323
• Hina and death 134
• Hina and Maui 134, 135
• Hina and moon 134
• Hina and Tane 131
• Hina and Tiki 135
• Hina and Tinirau 136
• Hina and Tuna 140
• Hina as a daughter of Rongo 135
• Hina as a daughter of Tane 136
• Hina as mother of Tiki 138
• Hina as wife of Tane 135
• Hina becomes Lono or Rongo 131, 135
• Hina connected with childbirth and weaving 136
• Hina has two faces 135
• Hina in Polynesia 135
• Hina i te po 134
• Hina-kai-tangata 134
• Hina-keha. Pale Hina 131, 138, 161
• Hina te iwaiwa 131, 132, 136
• Hina-uri. Dark Hina 131, 136, 138
• Hinau meal, How prepared 429
• Hine-ahiahi, the Evening Maid 111, 131
• Hine-ahua and tangiwai 165
• Hine-ahu-one, the Earth Formed Maid 107, 115
• Hine-aotea, the Day Maid 111, 131
• Hine-ata, the Morning Maid 111, 131
• Hine-i-tapeka, the Fire Maid 152
• Hine-i-te-huhi, the Swamp Maid 177
• Hine-kaikomako, the Fire Conserver 145
• Hine-kapua, the Cloud Maid 112, 116, 162
• Hine-karoro, personified form of a sea bird 176
• Hine-korako, the Moon Maiden 139, 238
• Hine-korako of Te Reinga 194
• Hine-makohu, the Mist Maid 162
• Hine-matioro, a famed chieftainess 353
• Hine-maunga, the Mountain Maid 154, 163
• Hine-maunga produced water 114
• Hine-moana, the Ocean Maid 97, 142, 154, 155, 156, 162
• Hine-moana attacks the Earth Mother 154
• Hinengaro—Mind and conscience 312
• Hine-nui-te-Po, Queen of underworld 119, 323
• Hine-nui-te-Po and death 324

  – 496 –

• Hine-nui-te-Po and Maui 146
• Hine-one, the Sand Maid 155, 163
• Hine-poupou swims across Cook Straits 126, 206
• Hine-pukohu-rangi, the Celestial Mist Maid 156
• Hine-raumati, the Summer Maid 110
• Hine-rau-wharangi 116, 155, 176
• Hine-ruarangi the banshee 202
• Hine-ruhi 408
• Hine-takurua, the Winter Maid 110
• Hine-te-ahuru, mother of stars 110
• Hine-te-aparangi discovers New Zealand 41
• Hine-te-iwaiwa—Tutelary being of women 294
• Hine-te-uira, the Lightning Maid 116, 161
• Hine-te-wai, Mother of rainbow 160
• Hine-titama, the Dawn Maid, Birth of 116
• Hine-titama descends to Rarohenga 118
• Hine-titama protects souls of dead 118, 119
• Hine-tu-a-hoanga, the Sandstone Maid 163, 164, 165
• Hine-tu-a-kirikiri, the Gravel Maid 163
• Hine-tuoi and volcanic phenomena 175
• Hine-turama, Mother of stars 97, 109, 110
• Hine-wai, the Rain Maid 156
• Hine-waoriki, Mother of the pine tree 176
• Hine-whaitiri, the Thunder Maid 175
• Hinutohu, Te, descends to underworld 409
• Hirihiri rite 267
• Historical traditions 57
• Hoa, magic spell 119
• Hokioi and hawk, Contest between 215
• Homeland of Maori 21
• Hongi salute 437, 438
• Hono charm 258
• Hono i wairua, Te—Spirits' meeting place 66, 320
• Honorific expressions 345, 348, 373
• Hopara makaurangi—Decorative painting 169
• Horanui-a-tau, Land of 42
• Hore and tuoro—Mythical monsters 194
• Horouta canoe 56, 64
• Hospitality 374
• Houama canoe reaches New Zealand 54
• House entered by window 379
• House of death 106
• House of Evil 66
• House of Mourning 476
• House of purification 321
• House of Tane 111
• House, Special, Built for certain purposes 471
• House with four windows 101
• “Houses” of Knowledge 69

  – 497 –

• Houses, Tapu of 256
• How Tamahape utilised his son-in-law 406
• How the Parrot gained his brilliant plumage 216
• Huaki-pouri—Home of Tane 101
• Hui-te-ananui, the “four-eyed” house 101, 116
• Hui-te-rangiora to Antarctic 38
• Human sacrifice 354
• Human sacrifice for new house 309
• Hurihanga a Mataaho 108, 149
• Hurumanu and sea birds 97, 114, 176, 320
• Hurunuku-atea, the north wind 153
• Huru-te-arangi, a wind parent 152
• Ice, Personified forms of 152
• Ihi and mārū qualities 107
• Ihomatua, the mind 313
• Iho-o-Kataka, the “phallic” tree 297
• Ihorangi, Te, personifies rain 97, 105, 145, 152, 162
• Ihorei, a title 345, 349
• Ihu-atamai, brother of Miru 323
• Ihu-parapara and Uenuku 159
• Ika purapura 309
• Ikaroa, Te, Milky Way 97, 105, 109
• Images employed as temporary shrines 281
• Immersion, ceremonial (See Aspersion) 116, 286
• Immigrants occupy certain districts 64
• Immigrants expand into tribes 63
• Imu horokaka rite 271
• Imu kirihau, etc. (See umu) 271
• Inanga, Migrations of 129
• Incest 447
• Indra and Ira 140
• Infanticide 413
• Insects, Origin of 163
• Insults 334
• Intercourse between tribes 354
• Internal competition unknown 339
• Intertribal wars 64
• Invitations to feast 380
• Invocations to Io (See under Io and Karakia)
• Io, the Supreme Being 233, 234, 320, 326
• Io, Abode of 88, 89
• Io and Ha 90
• Io and Jehovah 90
• Io and Tane 103
• Io as a demiurge 86, 89, 92
• Io, Attendants of 88
• Io, Cult of 90
• Io intensely tapu 87

  – 498 –

• Io, Invocations to 72, 76, 77, 82, 87, 235, 286
• Io-mataaho 108
• Io, Messengers of 99
• Io, Names of 87, 90, 235
• Io, No images of, or offerings to 90
• Io origin of human soul 115
• Io, Rarotongan knowledge of 90
• Io, Tahitian knowledge of 90
• Io the Eternal 86
• Io the origin of all things 89, 90
• Io the Parent 90
• Io the Parentless 89
• Io, Whare wananga of 66
• Io-wahine 121
• Ioio-whenua 175
• Ira the eel god 140
• Ira atua and ira tangata 113, 121
• Ira-panga's voyage to Ahu 22
• Ira tangata (See Ira atua)
• Ira tangata enters this world 116
• Irawaru 135
• Ira-whaki and Hine-kaikomako 145
• Irihia, the Polynesian homeland 21, 22, 320
• Irihia, Mt., in homeland 385
• Irirangi, Mt. 320
• Isis and Hina 135
• Isles of Hawaiki 172
• Istar and Hina 138
• Japanese drift vessels cross Pacific 21
• Jehovah and Io 90
• Kahu sails from Cook Straits to Chatham Isles 60, 225
• Kahukura (atua) 238, 281
• Kahukura and agriculture 133
• Kahukura and rainbow 156, 160
• Kahukura (human) and the net-making fairies 220
• Kahuponia, a whare takiura 67
• Kahurangi, a female title 348, 350
• Kahutara, Taikoria and Okoki canoes 42
• Kaihau women 271
• Kainga huna a Tane 325
• Kai pirau—Cannibalism 10
• Kairamua, a form of trespass 392
• Kai-tamahine custom 462
• Kai ure rite 296
• Kai-whakaruaki (Taniwha) 189, 191
• Ka mahunu, a rite of white magic 336
• Kani-a-Takirau, Te 352

  – 499 –

• Kanioro, the greenstone guardian 207
• Kapua-nui, Kapua-roa, etc. 376
• Kapu of pou rahui 392, 393
• Ka-pu-te-rangi pa at Whakatane 49
• Karakia (Charms, invocations, etc.) 262, 263
• Karakia atahu, or love charms 465
• Karakia, Detached aspect of 263
• Karakia—How rendered 75, 265
• Karakia hono tangata. Marriage ritual 457
• Karakia of Whare wananga 73, 75, 76, 77
• Karakia recited over a seer 286
• Karakia to Supreme Being (See under Io)
• Karakia, Wide application of term 263
• Karokaro-pounamu river in spirit world 323
• Kauwae-raro—Exoteric lore 69, 74
• Kauwae-runga—Esoteric lore 69, 74
• Kehua—Ghosts 229
• Kehua and wairua 301, 303
• Kekerewai, the poutiriao 105
• Kete aronui—Basket of Good 69, 73
• Kete o te wananga obtained by Tane 103
• Kete o te wananga (See “Baskets” of Knowledge)
• Kete tuatea—Knowledge of evil 73
• Kete tuauri—Basket of ritual 73
• Kikokiko—Malevolent ghosts 303
• Kiwa, guardian of the ocean 97, 105, 154, 155, 237
• Kohiwi, a visible form of an atua 312
• Kohupara mode of cooking 421
• Koparepare, a form of present 424
• Kope mode of cooking 421
• Korero purakau—Legendary tales 71, 126
• Korero tara—Stories 126, 178, 214
• Koro-tuatini “temple” at Hawaiki 323
• Kuku, Te, and volcanic phenomena 175
• Kumara acquired by Maori 210
• Kumara, Expedition to Hawaiki for 208
• Kumara myths 133
• Kupe and Ngahue reach New Zealand 41
• Kupe at Wellington Harbour 41
• Kupe returns to Polynesia 42
• Kura hau awatea—Solar halo 50, 246
• Kura hau po—Lunar halo 50
• Kurahaupo vessel. Duties of crew 51
• Kurahaupo reaches Rarotonga 51
• Kurahaupo reaches Taranaki 52
• Kurahaupo reaches Whakatane 52
• Kurahaupo sails for New Zealand 50, 52
• Kuranui, a name for the moa 207
• Kurawaka—Mons Veneris of Earth Mother 115

  – 500 –

• Kuri maori—Native dog 434
• Kuri nui a Meko, a taniwha 193
• Kuri ruarangi—Native dog 434
• Kuwatawata, Te—Guardian of entrance to spirit world 97, 104, 118, 168, 172, 320
• Labour, Division of (See Tasks) 264
• Lamps, Stone 424
• Land claims 344
• Land, Feeling of natives for 397
• Land, Singular mode of claiming 400
• Land tenure 394, 449
• Landslips ominous of evil 229
• Language, Maori 17, 129
• Language, Moriori 46
• Latrine, Rites performed at (See Ngau paepae) 296, 331
• Left hand used in ceremonial performances 153, 467
• Left foot possesses mana 258
• Left thigh, Ceremonial acts connected with 153, 270, 467, 468
• Leprosy 336
• Levirate 476
• Life principle (See Mauri)
• Life principle, All things possess a 128
• Life principle is tapu 299
• Light and Darkness 93
• Light born of Darkness 110
• Light, Children of (See Whanau Marama)
• Light enters the world 111
• Light, Phases of 95
• Light versus Darkness contest 99, 105, 107, 108, 140, 146
• Lightning Children 161
• Lightning Maid, Birth of 116
• Lightning personified 99, 161, 175
• Linga as symbol of fertility and reproduction 140
• Linga (See Phallus)
• Lizard 275, 328
• Lizard and death 107, 226
• Lizard as guardian of tapu 254
• Lizard personified 177
• Lizard represents Whiro 107
• Lizard, Origin of 187, 190
• Lizard, Superstitions connected with 225
• Lizards versus Dogs contest 185
• Long-haired women 168
• Love charms (See Atahu)
• Lustral rite (See Aspersion. Immersion 267
• Maero, or wild forest folk 204
• Magic 119, 147, 274, 281, 293, 296, 302, 309, 326, 383, 392
• Magic arts destroy life 82

  – 501 –

• Magic, How taught 69, 70, 82
• Magic ordeals experienced by learners 82
• Magic, Protective 268, 269, 331
• Magic, Rite to ward off 74
• Magic, Saliva employed in 274
• Magic sand dunes of Pae-kakariki 55
• Magic spell to cause sleep 210
• Magic stone mirror of Io 89
• Magic, White 464, 467, 468, 475, etc.
• Mahara—Thought 313
• Mahoihoi, Te, The Magician 205
• Mahora-nui-atea (the ocean) 153
• Mahuhu canoe 56, 64
• Mahuika, personified form of fire 146, 147, 151, 152
• Mahuika and Auahi-turoa 151
• Mahuika and Maui 144, 146, 152
• Mahuika seeks refuge with Hine-kaikomako 145
• Mahuru—Spring 175
• Mahutonga of Takitumu 245
• Maiki brethren represent disease, etc. 66, 106, 105, 177
• Maioha ceremony 116
• Mairiiri-kapua—The Wind House 103
• Makaka, Te, a tuahu 290
• Makamaka rimu rite 279
• Makatata—Parent of stones 163
• Makatiti—Parent of gravel 163
• Makutu (See Magic).
• Mamari canoe 56, 64
• Mamaru, Te, a guardian of heavens 162
• Man endowed with three qualities 107
• Man fashioned from earth 121
• Man fined for breaking his leg 360
• Man punished for his sins in this world 357
• Man, Origin of (See Anthropogenic myths) 113
• Man slain by magic spells 82
• Mana 200, 265, 270, 272, 283, 326, 327, 330, 333, 386
• Mana and tapu 258
• Mana atua 80, 386
• Mana, How transmitted 245
• Mana, Loss of 389
• Mana marae 374
• Mana of Polynesians in New Zealand 63
• Mana tangata 80, 388, 393
• Mana transferable 245, 389
• Manahune folk of Polynesia 21
• Manaia the voyager at D'Urville Island 54
• Manaia at Tongaporutu 52
• Manaia sails for New Zealand 54, 55
• Manaia v. Nuku, sea fight off Pukerua 55

  – 502 –

• Manawa and Manawa ora 115, 310
• Manawaru at Turanga 210
• Manea 308
• Manea of footsteps 335
• Mango trick in Polynesia 250
• Mangoroa-i-ata—Milky Way 148
• Manners and mannerisms, Maori 436, 437, etc.
• Mantis, Origin of 104
• Manu nui a Ruakapanga 61, 207, 208
• Manu nui a Ruakapanga known at Rarotonga 210
• Manu-whakatau (moa) 207
• Maori a mixed people 64
• Maori arts, etc., unknown in Polynesia 5
• Maori as a Polynesian 1
• Maori as a deep sea voyager (See Polynesian voyagers) 20
• Maori fellowship with nature 128
• Maori theogony 234
• Marae. Application of term 373
• Marae of Polynesia and New Zealand 291
• Maraea the prophetess 241
• Marae-nui—The ocean 103
• Marae-nui-atea—The ocean 132, 155
• Marae-roa—The ocean 132, 291
• Marakihau—Weird sea monsters 196
• Marama i whanake (moon) 109, 131
• Mareikura of twelfth heaven 66, 88, 90, 321
• Mareikura, a title of women 346
• Marion du Fresne died to uphold tapu 253
• Marquesans reach Hawaii 39
• Marriage 374, 442
• Marriage by capture 472
• Marriage ceremonial when not a ritual performance 445
• Marriage, Consanguineous 447
• Marriage custom of Mangaia 453
• Marriage discussed publicly 460
• Marriage feast 469, 470
• Marriage—Forbidden unions 446
• Marriage—Hono ritual 457
• Marriage, Intertribal 445, 447
• Marriage of woman with monster 188, 108
• Marriage—Rejected man resorts to magic arts 462
• Marriage, Three forms of 443, 471
• Marriage—Where line of prohibition was drawn 445
• Marrying age 450
• Maru, the atua 238
• Maruiwi (See Mouriuri) 44
• Maruaroa season 322
• Massage of infants 413
• Massage, Three forms of 413

  – 503 –

• Masticatories 432
• Mataaho, or Io-mataaho 108
• Mataaho, a personified form of lightning 161, 175
• Matahorua canoe reaches New Zealand 41
• Mātākai—A magic spell 332
• Matakite (See Second-sight. Seers) 240, 246
• Matakite, Initiatory rite over 284
• Matangireia in uppermost heaven 103
• Mataora and Niwareka 167
• Mataora descends to Rarohenga 168
• Mata o te tau—First fruits 279
• Matatua canoe reaches Aotearoa (N.Z.) 56, 64
• Matau a Maui—Hawke's Bay 144
• Mate a marama—Temporary death 134
• Matorohanga, Te 78, 84, 247, 315
• Maui, the demigod 141, 142
• Maui and death 147
• Maui and hawk 145
• Maui and Hina 134, 139, 144
• Maui and Hine-nui-te-Po 146, 148
• Maui and Irawaru 447
• Maui and Mahuika 144, 146, 152
• Maui and Tuna 140
• Maui assumes various forms 147
• Maui brings light to dark Hina (the moon) 146
• Maui brothers 142
• Maui connected with games 146
• Maui descends to underworld 143
• Maui elevates the heavens 144
• Maui hauls up the North Island 144
• Maui known as Tikitiki 146
• Maui-matawaru 142
• Maui nurtured at sea 142
• Maui of New Zealand and Moui of Egypt 140
• Maui slain by Hine 148
• Maui snares the sun 143
• Maui-mua and Hina 136
• Maungaharo, Mt., in homeland 320
• Maunganui, abode of the Children of Light 111
• Maungapohatu 194, 195, 205, 206
• Maungapohatu moves from Taupo 205
• Mauri, Life principle 303, 306, 391
• Mauri in all things 128
• Mauri—Its three aspects 304
• Mauri, Material. A talismanic shrine 77, 304, 305
• Mauri of a crop 390
• Mauri of a fish weir 306
• Mauri of a house 70
• Mauri of travellers 321

  – 504 –

• Mauri ora 306
• Mauri ora, Effect of pollution of 229
• Mawake-nui—One of the guardians of universe 162
• Māwe—Semblance of a fight, etc. 307, 310
• Meals 377, 401, 408, 413
• Meals taken outside house 258
• Medical science unknown 12
• Medicine 390
• Mediums employed in magic, etc. 281, 328, 333, 335
• Meko and his taniwha 193, 194
• Melanesian characteristics in Maori 1, 3, 5, 17
• Melanesians reach New Zealand 5, 56
• Memorising powers of Maori 12, 344
• Men, Tasks of 400
• Menials 347
• Mental activities, Seat of 312
• Mental phenomena appear in cosmogonic genealogies 92
• Mentality of Maori 12, 125, 129
• Meteors personified 175
• Meto—Comet 175
• Micturition 436
• Milky Way 148
• Milky Way betokens dawn 112
• Milky Way protects Star Children 112
• Mind emanated from Io 115
• Mind, Seat of 312, 313
• Miri aroha rite 475
• Mirror, Magic 89
• Miru of the underworld 323
• Misfortune treated as misdemeanour, and punished 359
• Mist Maid (See Hine-pukohu. Hine-makohu) 162
• Mist Maid and Uenuku 156
• Moa—The extinct Dinornis 195
• Moa killed by Ngahue at Arahura 165
• Moa seen by Maori 41, 61, 207
• Moana-kura 164
• Moana-nui of cosmogonic myth 153
• Moana nui a Kiwa—The ocean 154
• Moe-ahuru—Mother of heavenly bodies 97, 109
• Moe-tahuna—Parent of the duck 176
• Mohi Ruatapu 84, 315
• Moko, crocodile, taniwha and lizard 186
• Moko-huruhuru 95, 148
• Moko-nui; taniwha 193
• Mokoroa-i-ata—Milky Way 148
• Moon and fair-skinned persons 161
• Moon and agriculture 132, 135
• Moon and women 278
• Moon as husband of all women 134

  – 505 –

• Moon bathes in waters of life 138
• Moon connected with water 135, 141
• Moon deities are mild natured 139
• Moon deity. Symbol of in New Zealand 139
• Moon Maid 139
• Moon myths (See Hina. Rongo. Rona) 130, 131, 132, 134
• Moon, Origin of 109, 110
• Moon personified 131, 174
• Moon, Sex of changes 134
• Moon, Wives of 134
• Moon worship 132, 276, 278
• Morgan's misleading dictum 1
• Morianuku that gives on the spirit world 317
• Moriori folk of Chatham Isles 46, 63
• Moriori folk discontinue fighting 63
• Moriori myths 111
• Moriori (See Chatham Isles)
• Morning Maid 111, 131
• Mortal race sought to occupy the earth 113
• Mortuary memorials 252
• Mosquitoe, etc., Origin of 104
• Mottoes (See Proverbs)
• Moui of Egypt 108
• Moui and Maui 140
• Mounds employed in rites 121
• Mountain lore 203, 207
• Mountain Maid (See Hine-maunga)
• Mountain marriage 203, 204
• Mountains of homeland 203
• Mouriuri folk 5, 42, 56, 128
• Mouriuri folk, Area occupied by 46, 52
• Mouriuri folk, Description of 5, 42
• Mouriuri folk occupy Taranaki 44
• Mouriuri folk, Possible origin of 46
• Mouriuri folk reach New Zealand 42
• Mouriuri refugees settle Chatham Isles 60
• Mouriuri women marry Polynesians 58
• Mourning ceremonial 273
• Mourning of Rangi and Papa 96
• Mou-te-rangi sails for Polynesia 55
• Mouth, Curious habit of covering 436
• Mumuhanga, the mother of the totara 114
• Muriwai-hou and Tahekeroa 118, 317
• Muriwai-o-Whata 207
• Muru, Custom of 358, 472, 474
• Muru wahine 472
• Myth and religion 125
• Myths 124
• Myths, Astronomical 276

  – 506 –

• Myths, Evolution of 126
• Myths, Explanatory 129
• Myths far carried 126
• Myths impinge upon history 126
• Myths introduced from Polynesia 191
• Myths, Mountain 203, 204
• Myths of observation 128
• Myths, of Superior 125, 126
• Myths, Two versions of 85
• Mythopoetic culture stage 130
• Mythopoetic faculty and its results 12
• Name of person not asked 438
• Name of object sought must not be mentioned 226, 227
• Name, tapu 369
• Name becomes temporarily tapu 254
• Nanakia or Turehu 224
• Nasal sounds in Maori speech 18
• Natural phenomena personified 174
• Natural phenomena, Priestly powers over 246
• Nature myths 129
• Nelson's sun cult data 278
• Net making a tapu task 256
• Net making—How the art was acquired 219
• New Guinea—New Zealand parallels 298
• New Year festival 385
• New Zealand, Discovery and settlement of 21, 40, 42
• Ngahue alias Ngake 41, 164
• Ngahue kills a moa 165
• Ngahue returns to Polynesia 165
• Ngai-Tara of Wellington district 54