;
his image, 275 _sq._;
steals fire from Mahoike, 350

---- one of the Sandwich Islands, 375, 429

---- Atalanga, mythical first owner of fire, 57

---- Kijikiji, the Polynesian Prometheus, 57

Mauike, the fire-god, 226, 238, 239

Mauna Kea, mountain in Hawaii, 376

---- Loa, volcano in Hawaii, 375, 376

Mausoleum of the kings of Hawaii, 426

Medicine, the Hawaiian god of, 398

Megalithic monuments of the Tooitongas, 119;
in the Pacific, Dr. Rivers's theory as to, 119;
of the Tongans, 123;
in Lefooga (Lifuka), 128 _sq._;
their supposed relation to sun-worship, 266 _n._^4;
in the Marquesas, 360 _sq._

Megalithic tombs, 119, 123, 132

Meinicke, C. E., 118 _n._^2

Melanesian blood, admixture of, in the Hervey Islands, 221

---- type, 6;
population of New Zealand, 6 _sq._

---- totemism, 218

Melanesians, now related to Polynesians, 2 _sq._;
magic among the, 161;
sham-fights at funerals among the, 212

Melville, Hermann, 330, 332, 333, 338, 354, 357 _n._^3, 360 _sq._,
361 _sq._, 373

Men deified in their lifetime, 349;
deified after death, 351 _sq._, 397

Metals unknown to the Polynesians, 61, 222, 250, 335

Metempsychosis, theory that Melanesian totemism has been developed out
of, 218

Milu (Miru), king of the nether world, 427, 428, 429, 430.
_See_ Miru

----, a rebel spirit, 392

Minstrels, wandering, in the Marquesas, 342

Miru, king of the nether world, 427;
goddess of hell or of the dead, 428 _n._^1;
the Hades of the Sandwich Islanders, 431.
_See_ Milu

----, an infernal hag, devours ghosts, 242

Moerenhout, J. A., 118, 263 _n._^2, 264 _n._^3, 266 _n._^4, 284,
286 _n._^5, 297, 308 _n._^1

Monarchy, absolute, in Hawaii, 383

Mooa, old capital of Tongataboo, 106, 108, 111, 112

_Mooas_, middle-class in Tonga, 66, 85

Moomooe (Moomooi), king of Tonga, 83, 91, 108, 133, 141, 145

Moon, family god in, 192;
tradition of sacrifice to the, 394;
festival of the new, 414

Moon-goddess, 267, 287 _n._

Mo'ooi (Maui), Tongan god, 72

_Morai_ (_marai_, _marae_), burial-place, temple, 103, 116, 117, 118,
119;
dead buried in, 117 _sqq._, 282 _sqq._;
in the Society Islands, 278 _sqq_.

_Morais_, bones of dead chiefs buried in, 311;
burial-places, 357 _sq._,