W., 221 _n._^1, 225 _n._^1, 227, 228 _n._^1, 237, 238

Girdle, sacred, of kings, 254

God, patron, determined at birth, 200 _sq._, 223

"God-boxes," inspired priests, 228 _sq._

Godless, the Samoans called, 181 _sq._

Gods, chiefs and priests descended from the, 29;
confused with spirits of the dead, 31;
the great Polynesian, 35 _n._;
of the Maoris, 36 _sq._;
of the Tongans, 64 _sqq._;
souls of dead men as, 64 _sq._, 66, 69, 70, 84, 91;
men descended from, 66;
omens sent by, 67;
in form of animals, 66, 92 _sqq._, 182 _sqq._;
the primary or non-human, of Tonga, 68 _sqq._;
national and tribal, of Tonga, 93 _sq._;
temples of, in Tonga, 73 _sqq._, 99 _sqq._;
worship of, 79 _sqq._;
annual feasts in honour of, 187 _sq._;
tame, 191;
vegetable, 192;
totemic, 202;
high gods, 202 _sqq._;
the life of the, 238;
punished, 257;
born of Night (_Po_), 258, 277;
of the sea, 276 _sq._;
of the air, 277;
worship of the gods in the Society Islands, 277 _sqq._;
the causes of disease and death, 299, 351;
Hawaiian, two classes of, 397

Government, monarchical and aristocratic, of the Tongans, 62 _sq._;
democratic, of Samoans, 171 _sqq._;
of the Society Islands, 253;
in the Marquesas, 344 _sq._;
in the Hawaiian Islands, 383 _sq._

Grandfather, soul of, reborn in grandchild, 368 _sq._

Grange, Jerome, 60 _n._^5, 113 _sq._

Grasshoppers, souls of dead children in, 318

Graves, sacred, 99;
in relation to temples, 99 _sqq._;
of Tongan kings, 103, 105;
prayers at, 121, 217;
of great chiefs religiously revered, 120;
enclosed with stones, 211;
in Society Islands, 309;
in Hawaii, 418.
_See_ Tombs

Guardian deity, how obtained, 398

Gudgeon, W. E., 41, 42 _n._^1, 48 _n._^1

Guillemard, F. H. H., 132

_Haamonga_, megalithic monument in Tonga, 125, 126

Haapai (Haabai), one of the Tonga Islands, 52, 95, 126

Haddon, A. C., 6 _n._^2

Hahunga, Maori festival, 22

Hair cut in mourning, 19, 303 _sq._, 420_sq._;
ceremonies at cutting the, 44 _sq._;
used in evil magic, 300, 325, 405;
offered by mourners to the dead, 303, 304;
sacrificed to volcano, 400

Hale, Horatio, 6 _n._^2, 63, 214

Hands tabooed, 38, 45, 137, 138, 209, 312, 404

Happahs (Happas), a tribe of Marquesans, 364, 365

_Harepo_, sacred recorde