as been developed out of metempsychosis, 218;
relics of, in the Hervey Islands, 227 _sq._;
traces of, among the Marquesans, 347;
relics of, in Hawaii, 402

Trade guilds among the Samoans, 167 _sq._

Transmigration of souls not believed in by the Samoans, 218;
of souls of children into sharks, 403

Traps set for souls, 230

Tree, family god in, 192;
on which ghosts perch, 241

Trees, dead deposited on, 20 _sq._;
tenanted by gods, 228;
sacred, 281 _sq._;
worshipped, 402

Tregear, E., 6 _n._^2, 126 _n._^2, 392

Tribes or clans among the Hervey Islanders, 223

Trilithon in Tongataboo, 123 _sqq._

Trilithons at Stonehenge, 123, 129, 130

Trinity, the Hawaiian, 392

Triton-shell, god in, 228

Tropic-bird sacred, 93

Tu, Maori war-god, 35 _n._;
a great Polynesian deity, 392

Tuaraatai, a sea god in the Society Islands, 276

Tufoa, volcanic island, 53

Tui-ta-tui, a Tooitonga, 127, 128

_Tulafales_, householders or gentry in Samoa, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180

Tuoro, in Rarotonga, the meeting-place of ghosts, 243, 244

Turnbull, J., 262

Turner, Dr. George, 183 _n._^1, 203 _n._^2, 206 _n._^1, 212, 213

Turtles, family god in, 183 _sq._

Tutuila, Samoan island, 149, 175, 176, 180, 215

Twins, divine, 226;
heavenly, 267;
customs and superstitions concerning, 267 _sqq._;
thought able to influence the weather, 267 _sq._;
fertilising power ascribed to, 269 _sqq._;
divine Hawaiian, 394

Tyerman and Bennet, 260, 281, 283, 295, 315, 386

Tylor, E. B., 3 _n._^3

Typee. _See_ Taipii

Typees or Taipiis, a tribe of Nukahiva, 330, 332 365, 375

Uea (Wallis Island), 125

Uganda, human sacrifice in, 84

_Uhane_, soul, 417

Ui, a heroine, beloved by the sun, 158

Uli, a Hawaiian god, 405

Umi, king of Hawaii, 411, 413

Unburied dead, Samoan ceremonies for, 205 _sq._

Uncleanness, and holiness blent in taboo, 173;
caused by contact with a corpse, 312 _sq._, 427

Underworld, home of the souls of the dead, 27

Upolu, Samoan island, 149, 152, 155, 162, 185, 196, 202, 214, 215

Upu, a Marquesan goddess of the dead, 367, 368

Uriwera, a Maori people, 15

Urutetefa, patron deity of the Areoi Society, 263, 265, 267

Utakea, a god incarnate in the woodpecker, 228

Vatea, a primary god, 226

Vavau, a Tongan island, 52, 53, 73

Veachi, sacred p