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n-god, caught by Maui in nooses, 226 Radiguet, M., 338, 341, 357 _n._^1, 358, 373 Raiatea, one of the Society Islands, 246, 255, 258, 259, 266, 289, 315, 317, 318, 319 Rail-bird sacred, 95; omens from, 190 Rainbow worshipped, 93, 182; omens from, 191, 397; emblem of deified chiefs, 204 _sq._; superstitions about, 267, 269 _Rangatira_, gentleman, 43, 44; landowners, 224 Rangi, god of sky, 34 _n._^2 Rarotonga, one of the Hervey Islands, 219, 221, 222, 224, 226, 228, 232, 243, 244 Raupa, a burial cave, 237 Recorders, sacred, 295 _sq._, 298 Red, bones of dead painted, 21; tabooed, 227; feathers regarded as divine, 290 _sq._ ---- Cave, 239, 240 Reincarnation of the dead, 368 _sq._ Reinga, leaping-off place of souls (Maori), 27 Religion of Maoris concentrated on worship of dead kinsfolk, 34; homogeneity of Polynesian, 35 _n._; the Tongan, 64 _sqq._; ethical influence of the Tongan, 146 _sq._; of the Samoans, 181 _sqq._; of the Hervey Islanders, 225 _sqq._; early stage of, 226; of the Society Islanders, 256 _sqq._; without influence on morality, 318; of the Marquesans, 348 _sqq._; of the Hawaiians, 390 _sqq._ Remy, J., 412 _n._^1, 415 _n._^1 Renan, Ernest, on the Hebrew prophets, 147 Respect for chiefs in Samoa, 171 _sqq._ Resurrection of the dead, Hawaiian notions about the, 430 _sq._ Rewards, posthumous, no belief in, 67, 146 Rhodesia, Northern, belief as to mother of twins in, 269 Rib of the first man, the first woman created out of the, 393 _sq._ Rites, of burial and mourning in Tonga, 132 _sqq._; funeral, in the Hervey Islands, 231 _sqq._; religious, of the Society Islanders, 257; of purification, 288. _See_ Ceremonies River of the Water of Life (Maori), 28; in the nether world, 216 Rivers, W. H. R., 4 _n._^1, 119, 124 _n._^1, 128, 202, 218, 266 _n._^4 Roberts, E., 371 Rohutu, the abode of the dead, 319 _sq._, 327 Rongo, god of peace and agriculture, 35 _n._; a great Polynesian god, 224, 225, 226, 392, 395; his sacred stream and grove, 240, 241; god, inventor of circumcision, 224 Rono, a great Hawaiian god, 404, 416. _See_ Lono Roscoe, J., 271 Routledge, S. and K., 279 _n._^1 Ruahatu, a sea-god, 276 S[=a]-le-Fe'e, the Samoan Tarta
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