361 _sq._;
mummies deposited in, 357;
in Hawaii, 391, 406 _sqq._;
dead chiefs buried in, 407 _sq._
Morality reinforced by superstitious terrors, 83;
not influenced by religion, 318
Mortality of souls of commoners, 66, 85
Motoro, a great god in the Hervey Islands, 241
Mourning for death of divine owl, 186 _sq._
---- customs of Maoris, 19 _sq._;
in Tonga, 132 _sqq._;
in Samoa, 208 _sq._;
in the Hervey Islands, 231;
among the Society Islands, 301 _sqq._;
of the Marquesans, 353 _sqq._;
in Hawaii, 420 _sqq._
Mouth and nostrils of dying stopped to prevent the escape of the soul,
352
Mueu, a female demon of death, 235
Mukasa, great god of the Baganda, 270
Mullets sacred, 95, 184
Mummies kept in the house or deposited in a _morai_, 357
Muru, a god, spreads a net to catch ghosts, 244
Mythology of the Society Islanders, 257 _sq._, 277;
of the Marquesans, 348 _sqq._
Nails, parings of, used in evil magic, 325, 405
Names of relatives changed after a death, 233;
of kings sacred, 254;
new, given at admission to the Society of the Areois, 261;
exchange of, 339
Namuka, one of the Tonga Islands, 52
Nature, personifications of, 32, 34;
worship of, 93
Necromancy among the Maoris, 30 _sq._
Negritoes, 3
Net to catch ghosts, 242, 244
New Zealand, the Maoris of, 5 _sqq._;
Melanesian population of, 6 _sq._
Neyra, Alvaro Mendana de, 328
Ngati-apa, a Maori tribe, 23
Nicholas, J. L., 16 _n._^3
Night, or the primaeval darkness (_Po_), 258, 276, 277, 298 _n._^1,
305, 315, 323, 393, 397, 427;
burials by, 419
Nightmare caused by a ghost, 419
_Noa_, common, 38, 39, 40;
general, as opposed to _taboo_, sacred, 388
Noah, the Hawaiian, 393, 394
Nobility traced in female line in Tonga, 75
Nobles, souls of dead, as gods, 64, 66, 84, 91
North Cape of New Zealand, place of departure for souls of the dead,
27, 28, 30
Nukahiva, one of the Marquesas Islands, 328, 337, 350, 352, 360, 361,
364, 368, 371, 372
Nuu, the Hawaiian Noah, 393, 394
O-Heena, a goddess, 287 _n._
_See_ Hina
O-rongo, in Mangaia, 225
Oahu, one of the Sandwich Islands, 375, 376 _n._^2, 385, 395, 411, 429
Obsequies of kings and chiefs in Tonga, 133 _sqq._;
of the Tooiton
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