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._