INDEX

Abortions, spirits of, dreaded, 49 _n._^1

Adam, the Hawaiian, 393

Adoption among the Marquesans, 339

Aesculapius, the Hawaiian, 398

_Afiatouca_, burial-place, 102, 103

Agriculture of Maoris, 8 _sq._;
of the Tongans, 59 _sq._;
Samoan, 164 _sqq._;
of the Hervey Islanders, 221 _sq._;
of the Society Islanders, 249;
of the Hawaiians, 378 _sq._

Air, gods of the, 277

_Aitu_, Samoan gods embodied in visible objects, animals, birds, etc.,
182, 201, 207

Akaanga, a god, spreads a net to catch ghosts, 242, 244

Akea (Wakea), king of the nether world, 427, 428, 430

_Akua_, god, in the Hawaiian dialect, equivalent to _atua_, 392, 398

_Akuas_, spirits, 429

Alai Valoo, a Tongan god, 74

Alo Alo, a Tongan god, 71 _sq._

Altars in the Society Islands, 291

Amable, Father, Catholic missionary, 367

Ambler, English sailor, 84

Amusements of the Marquesans, 339 _sqq._

Ancestors worshipped by Maoris, 32 _sqq._;
skulls of, brought out at marriages, 288, 311

Ancestral spirits watch over the living, 33;
do not follow their kinsfolk among strangers, 34;
cause disease, 49;
worshipped by Society Islanders, 300, 315;
guardians of newly wedded pairs, 311

Angas, G. F., 48 _n._^1

Animals, gods in form of, 66, 92 _sqq._, 182 _sqq._;
deified spirits of men resident in, 227 _sq._;
worshipped in Hawaii, 401 _sqq._

Anointing a king of Samoa, 177

Anuanu, vale of, 376 _n._^2

_Ao_, titles of chiefs in Samoa, 172 _sq._

Apolima, Samoan island, 149, 151

Apparitions dreaded, 205, 217

Araia, 241, 242

Aremauku, starting-place for spirit-land, 239

Areois, Society of the, 259 _sqq._

_Arii taboo_, sacred chiefs, 387

_Ariki_, sacred chief, 41;
king, 224

Astronomy of priests, 293

_Atua_, the Polynesian word for god or spirit, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, 44,
46, 64 _n._^3, 89, 277, 322, 323, 348, 349.
_Compare akua, eatooa, etua_

_Atuas_, consecrated feathers called, 291;
inspired priests called, 294;
great national gods, distinguished from _oramatuas tiis_, the
spirits of dead relatives, 324

Auraka, a burial cavern, 233, 237, 238, 241

Avaiki, subterranean region, home of the dead, 238, 239, 241, 243, 244

Axes or adzes of stone, 61, 180, 233, 251, 335, 382

Ba-ila, their licence