itions in regard to
events subsequent to the creation of man. "In one of the sacrificial
hymns of the Marquesans, when human victims were offered, frequent
allusions were made to 'the red apples eaten in Naoau,' ... and to the
'tabooed apples of Atea,' as the cause of death, wars, pestilence,
famine, and other calamities, only to be averted or atoned for by the
sacrifice of human victims. The close connection between the Hawaiian
and the Marquesan legends indicates a common origin, and that origin
can be no other than that from which the Chaldean and Hebrew legends
of sacred trees, disobedience, and fall also sprang." In comparison of
"the Hawaiian myth of Kanaloa as a fallen angel antagonistic to the
great gods, as the spirit of evil and death in the world, the Hebrew
legends are more vague and indefinite as to the existence of an evil
principle. The serpent of Genesis, the Satan of Job, the Hillel of
Isaiah, the dragon of the Apocalypse--all point, however, to the
same underlying idea that the first cause of sin, death, evil, and
calamities, was to be found in disobedience and revolt from God. They
appear as disconnected scenes of a once grand drama that in olden
times riveted the attention of mankind, and of which, strange to
say, the clearest synopsis and the most coherent recollection are,
so far, to be found in Polynesian traditions. It is probably in vain
to inquire with whom the legend of an evil spirit and his operations
in Heaven and on earth had its origin. Notwithstanding the apparent
unity of design and remarkable coincidence in many points, yet the
differences in coloring, detail, and presentation are too great to
suppose the legend borrowed by one from either of the others. It
probably descended to the Chaldeans, Polynesians, and Hebrews alike,
from a source or people anterior to themselves, of whom history now
is silent."

II

EXPLOITS OF MAUI

_Rev. A. O. Forbes_

I.--SNARING THE SUN

Maui was the son of Hina-lau-ae and Hina, and they dwelt at a place
called Makalia, above Kahakuloa, on West Maui. Now, his mother Hina
made _kapas_. And as she spread them out to dry, the days were so
short that she was put to great trouble and labor in hanging them
out and taking them in day after day until they were dry. Maui,
seeing this, was filled with pity for her, for the days were so
short that, no sooner had she got her kapas all spread out to dry,
than the Sun went down, and she had to take t