gas, 140 _sqq._;
of Samoan chiefs, 211 _sq._;
of chiefs, in the Society Islands, 303
Octopus, god in, 95, 96, 183
Offerings to gods, 79;
to Samoan deities, 187, 188, 189;
to priests, 195;
to the dead, 311;
of food at tombs, 362;
to volcanic goddess, 401.
_See_ Sacrifices
Omens sent by gods, 67;
from sacred birds, animals, or fish, 189 _sq._;
from sacrificial victims, clouds, and rainbow, 397, 414
Opoa, metropolis of idolatry in the Society Islands, 255, 258, 259,
289
Oracles delivered by priests, 295;
given by priests in the name of gods, 404
_Oramatuas_ or _oromatuas_, worshipful spirits of departed relatives,
277, 299, 323 _sq._;
sacred feathers called, 291
Origin of Samoan gods of families, villages, and districts, 200 _sqq._
Oro, war-god in the Society Islands, 255, 255 _n._^1, 258, 259, 261,
263, 265, 266, 289, 295, 315, 326
Orono, head of a priestly order in Hawaii, 391
Orotetefa, patron deity of the Areoi Society, 263, 265, 267
Ovens, souls of dead in, 26 _sq._;
of hot stones, 222, 379
Owl god, festival of, 188;
kept tame, 191
Owls sacred, 95, 182;
mourning for dead, 186 _sq._;
omens from, 190
Pantheon recruited by dead men, 98
Papa, goddess of earth, 34 _n._^2;
wife of Vatea, 226
Papatea, mythical island, 158
Papo, Samoan war-god, 186
Paradise of the Society Islanders, 319, 327
Parliamentary form of government in Samoa, 179 _sq._
_Pas_, Maori forts, 8 _n._^3
Pele, goddess of the volcano Kilauea in Hawaii, 399 _sqq._
Personifications of nature, 32, 34;
of ghost by an actor, 306
Pied fantail in Maori story of origin of death, 18 _sq._
Pigeons, divine, 184;
kept tame, 191
Pigs' liver a god, 96
Pigs offered to the dead, 231;
sacrificed, 264, 265, 291;
for recovery of sick, 351;
to the dead, 368.
_See_ Hogs
Planets, the shrine of a god, 228
Pleiades, emblems of deified chiefs, 204
Po, region of departed souls (Maori), 27
_Po_, Night or the primaeval darkness, the abode of the gods and of
the dead, 258, 277, 298 _n._^1, 305, 308, 315, 316,
317, 323, 393, 397, 427
Pollution caused by death, 312 _sq._, 427
Polack, J. S., 7 _n._^1
Polyandry among the Marquesans, 337 _sq._
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