t, his theory that temples are derived from tombs, 100

Spirit world, Maori ideas of, 29 _sq._

Spirits of the dead become gods, 31 _sq._;
threatened, 208.
_See_ Gods, Souls

Spittle used in magic, 15, 300, 325, 405;
collected to prevent its use in magic, 405 _sq._

Stair, J. B., 152, 173 _n._^1, 203 _n._^2, 206 _n._^1

Star, shooting, worshipped, 93

Stars observed by the Samoans, 161

Sterndale, H. B., 197, 198, 199

Stewart, C. S., 157 _n._^7, 337 _sq._, 340 _sq._, 344 _n._^1,
348 _sq._, 349 _sq._, 358, 372, 377, 424

Stick-and-groove mode of kindling fire, 181

Stilts, racing or combating on, 339 _sq._

Stinging ray fish, divine, 184, 185;
taboo to some Marquesans, 347

Stone-cutting in Tonga, craft of, 127

Stone monuments in Samoa, 197 _sqq._

Stone temple, ruins of, in Samoa, 196 _sq._

Stone tools and weapons, 10, 61, 180, 250 _sq._, 335, 382;
in Tonga, 61;
in Samoa, 180

Stonehenge, trilithons at, 123, 129, 130

Stones worshipped, 182, 187;
piled on graves to prevent the dead from rising, 232

Succession of eldest sons at their birth, 255 _sq._

Sugar-cane cultivated, 379

Suicides, their fate after death, 363

Sun, supposed secret worship of the, in the Pacific, 119;
Stonehenge supposed by some to be a temple of the, 130;
Tongans not worshippers of the, 131;
tradition of human sacrifices to, 158;
not worshipped in Samoa, 192;
ghosts journeying with the, 239 _sqq._;
caught and stopped by Maui, 275, 287 _n._, 396;
not worshipped by the Society Islanders, 286;
souls of the dead gather in the, 320

Sun god caught by Maui, 226;
supposed worship of, 266, 286 _n._^5

Sun worship, savages not addicted to, 131

"Sun-dried gods," title applied to embalmed bodies of chiefs, 205

Superstitious terrors reinforce morality, 83

Taaroa (Taroa), a great god, 255 _n._^1, 258, 266, 267, 276, 287 _n._;
supreme god of Polynesia, 290.
_Compare_ Tanaroa, Tangaloa, Tangaroa

Taboo (_tapu_) among the Maoris, 32, 34, 37 _sqq._, 432;
contracted by contact with the dead, 39, 209;
of sacred chiefs, 41 _sqq._;
its effect in confirming the rights of private property, 47 _sq._;
ultimate sanction of, 49;
supposed effects of breaking a, 76 _sq._;
consequent on touching a dead body, 137 _sq._;
comprises ideas of holiness and uncl