rainbow. Should he by accident have caught sight of one, he must
shave his eyebrows and dye the place of the one black and the place of
the other red.[78] This superstition seems to imply a special relation
between twins and the sky, and it reminds us of the Tahitian tradition
that the two divine brothers, the first members of the Areoi Society,
descended to earth on a rainbow.[79]

[68] J. Rendel Harris, _The Dioscuri in the Christian Legends_
(London, 1903), pp. 1 _sqq._ _id._, _The Cult of the Heavenly
Twins_ (Cambridge, 1906), pp. 58 _sqq._; _id._, _Boanerges_
(Cambridge, 1913), pp. 291 _sqq._

[69] W. Ellis, _op. cit._ i. 230, 232. Ellis does not admit that
Orotetefa and Urutetefa were, strictly speaking, the sons of
Oro. He writes: "According to the traditions of the people,
Taaroa created, and, by means of Hina, brought forth when full
grown Orotetefa and Urutetefa. They were not his sons; _oriori_
is the term employed by the people, which seems to mean
_create_" (_op. cit._ i. 230). With regard to Hina (Heena),
interpreted as the moon, or the goddess of the moon, see J. R.
Forster, _Observations_, p. 549; G. Forster, _Voyage_, ii. 152;
J. A. Moerenhout, _op. cit._. i. 428 _sq._, 458, 472; E.
Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary_, p. 69.
_s.v._ "Hina," "Hina is by far the best known of all Polynesian
legendary personages. In the more easterly islands she is a
goddess, and is almost certainly the Moon-goddess." Similarly
Mr. E. E. V. Collocot observes that Hina "is generally regarded
as the Moon-goddess, and this view was spontaneously put forward
by a Tongan; in conversation with me" (_Journal of the
Polynesian Society_, xxx. (1921) p. 238).

[70] Abundant evidence of the custom is produced by Dr. Rendel
Harris in his learned works, _The Cult of the Heavenly Twins_
and _Boanerges_.

[71] _The Golden Bough_, Part I., _The Magic Art and the
Evolution of Kings_, i. 262 _sqq._

[72] H. A. Junod, _Les Ba-ronga_ (Neuchatel, 1898), p. 412;
_id._, _Life of a South African Tribe_ (Neuchatel, 1912-1913),
ii. 394.

[73] H. A. Junod, _Life of a South African Tribe_, ii. 398.

[74] H. A. Junod, _Life of a South African Tribe_, ii. 399.

[75] H. A. Junod, _Les Ba-ronga_, pp. 417 _sq._; _id._, _Life of
a South African Tribe_, ii. 296.

[76] H. A. Junod, _Life of a S