n the woodpecker, 228

Temple, dead Areois buried in, 261;
bones of human victims buried in, 292;
bones of dead chiefs buried in, 311

Temples of the gods in Tonga, 73 _sqq._, 99 _sqq._;
and graves, question of, 99 _sqq._;
and tombs, 99 _sqq._;
Samoan, 194 _sqq._;
in the Society Islands, 278 _sqq._;
dedicated to sharks, 402, 403;
Hawaiian, 406 _sqq._

Theft, ordeal for detection of, 77

Thieves, Hiro the god of, 326;
divination to detect, 406

Thunder and lightning, no Tongan god of, 71;
Tongan idea concerning, 90

Thunder-god kept in captivity, 191 _sq._

Thomas, Rev. John, 57 _n._^1, 111 _n._

Thomson, A. S., 6 _n._^2

Thomson, Sir Basil, 87 _n._^1, 106, 107, 115, 116, 124, 125, 126, 127,
128, 129

Tiaio, a god of the Hervey Islanders, 227

Tiaraboo (Tiarroboo, Tairaboo), the southern peninsula of Tahiti, 257,
283

Tiburones, a mythical paradise, 352, 364

Ti'iti'i, hero, robs Mafuie of fire, 203

_Tii_, a worshipful spirit of the dead, 324.
Compare _Tee_

Tiki, the god of the dead, 231, 232

----, a heroine, 239;
warder of the land of the dead, 244 _sq._

----, a Marquesan god, 343, 350 _n._^4

Timatekore, a god of the Hervey Islanders, 226

Tofua, Tongan island, 96

Togo, in West Africa, 271

_Tohunga_, Maori priest, 16 _n._^3

Tombs, megalithic, of the Tooitongas, 99 _sqq._, 105 _sqq._, 119,
123, 132;
and temples, 99 _sqq._

Tonga or Friendly Islands, 52 _sqq._

---- Islanders, 57 _sqq._;
their religion, 64 _sqq._;
their national and tribal gods, 93 _sq._

Tongataboo, 52, 86, 94, 106, 111, 112, 113, 114, 119, 120, 123

Tonga-iti, a god in the Hervey Islands, 227

_Tooas_ (_tuas_), Tongan commoners, 66, 85, 86, 87

Toobo Toty, a Tongan god, 71

Toogoo Ahoo, king of Tonga, 81

Tooi fooa Bolotoo, a Tongan god, 70 _sq._

Tooitonga, sacred chief or king of Tonga, 62, 66, 73, 81, 82, 94,
106, 107, 108, 110, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121,
122, 123, 126, 127, 144, 145;
tombs of the Tooitongas, 105 _sqq._;
obsequies of the, 140 _sqq._

Tooi-tonga-fafine, sister of the Tooitonga, 110

Totemic gods of Samoa, 202

Totemism, Tongan polytheism developed out of, 94;
Samoan worship of animals developed out of, 200 _sqq._, 218;
theory that it h