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... marae , 1 or sacred grove , at Opoa , on the island of Raiatea ; whence this worship extended to all the neighbouring islands , and throughout the Paumotu Group . Human sacrifices were continually offered to the great Polynesian god of ...
... marae , 1 or sacred grove , at Opoa , on the island of Raiatea ; whence this worship extended to all the neighbouring islands , and throughout the Paumotu Group . Human sacrifices were continually offered to the great Polynesian god of ...
Pagina 15
... marae of Oro at Tahiti , and witnessed the placing of the fiftieth . When he himself received divine honours at the Sandwich Islands , he was not aware that it was as the blood - stained Rongo , whose home was supposed to be in these ...
... marae of Oro at Tahiti , and witnessed the placing of the fiftieth . When he himself received divine honours at the Sandwich Islands , he was not aware that it was as the blood - stained Rongo , whose home was supposed to be in these ...
Pagina 16
... marae of Rongo and the altar for human sacrifice , are pointed out as symbolizing the threefold lords of the soil . Rongo continued to live in Avaiki , in the invisible or nether Auau , of which this island was asserted to be but the ...
... marae of Rongo and the altar for human sacrifice , are pointed out as symbolizing the threefold lords of the soil . Rongo continued to live in Avaiki , in the invisible or nether Auau , of which this island was asserted to be but the ...
Pagina 17
William Wyatt Gill. his marae in the upper world , from time to time — the decayed corpse to be invariably thrown in the ... marae , had no wooden or stone representation , nor was any worship ever paid to him . C In song , the gods are ...
William Wyatt Gill. his marae in the upper world , from time to time — the decayed corpse to be invariably thrown in the ... marae , had no wooden or stone representation , nor was any worship ever paid to him . C In song , the gods are ...
Pagina 18
... marae of the war - god , it is asserted that there once existed a deep , gloomy chasm ( long since closed up ) , known as Tiki's hole ( Te rua ia Tiki ) . This constituted the regular road to Avaiki , like the single aperture at the top ...
... marae of the war - god , it is asserted that there once existed a deep , gloomy chasm ( long since closed up ) , known as Tiki's hole ( Te rua ia Tiki ) . This constituted the regular road to Avaiki , like the single aperture at the top ...
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