Preface : PREFACE. THE Maori MSS. of which translations are now published were collected by the author many years ago. The persons through whom the MSS. were obtained are now, with one exception, no longer living. They were all of them men of good birth, and competent authorities. One who could write sent me...
Chapter I. Aryans And Polynesians : PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY. CHAPTER I. ARYANS AND POLYNESIANS. {Greek "Nmikse sautw^j tos gones ?inai eos"} THE religious feeling may be traced to the natural veneration of the child for the parent, joined to an innate belief in the immortality of the soul. What we know of the primitive...
Chapter Vi. Claiming And Naming Land : CHAPTER VI. CLAIMING AND NAMING LAND. No place in the world ever received a name which could not be accounted for, though there are hundreds of such names of which we can now give no explanation--"Farrar on Language", p. 22. IHENGA set out with four companions. He went in a different directi...
Chapter Iii. Religious Rites Of The Maori : CHAPTER III. RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE MAORI. {Greek "All? ?ge dh` tina mntin e?reomen".}-Hom. Il. 1-62. THE religious rites and ceremonies of the "Maori" were strange and complex, and must have been a severe burden, as will be understood from the translations of "Maori" narratives relating to such...
Chapter Iv. Religious Rites Of The Maori : CHAPTER IV. RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE MAORI. Tantum Relligio potuit suadere.--Lucretius. You ask me about the customs of "Maori" men, and their origin, how men came to learn them. This is the source whence men learnt them. Their knowledge is not from modern times. Papa, Rangi, Tiki were the first...
Chapter Vii.claiming And Naming Land : CHAPTER VII. Sunt autem privata nulla natur, sed aut vetere occupatione, ut qui quondam in vacua venerunt; aut victori, ut qui bello potiti sunt; aut lege, pactione, conditione, sorte.--Cicero de Off., Lib. 1, ch. vii. If you were to make inquiry from a New Zealander as to his land-title, it would...
Title Page : MAORI RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY TRANSLATIONS OF TRADITIONS, KARAKIA, &c. TO WHICH ARE ADDED NOTES ON "MAORI" TENURE OF LAND. BY EDWARD SHORTLAND, M.A., M.R.C.P., LATE NATIVE SECRETARY, NEW ZEALAND, AUTHOR OF "TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS." LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN...
Chapter V. The Maori Chief Of Olden Time : CHAPTER V. THE MAORI CHIEF OF OLDEN TIME. {Greek "es d'w`?s teto dh'mwj"}.-Homer. THE Chiefs who came from Hawaiki to Aotea-roa in the canoe Arawa were the following:--Tia, Maka, Oro, Ngatoroirangi, Maru-punganui, Ika, Whaoa, Hei, and Tama-te-kapua. After their canoe was hauled ashore at Maketu...
Appendix : APPENDIX. MAORI TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP. TUPUNA. "An ancestor--male or female". MATUA. "A father, or uncle either patruus or avunculus". PAPA. "The same". WHAEA. "A mother, or aunt on either side". TAMA. "Eldest nephew". TAMAHINE. "Eldest niece; also used more generally". TAMAITI. "Son, or nephew"...
Untitled : MAORI RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY BY EDWARD SHORTLAND LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1882. Title Page Preface. Contents. Chapter I. Aryans and Polynesians Chapter II. Maori Cosmogony and Mythology Chapter III. Religious Rites of the Maori Chapter IV. Religious Rites of the Maori (cont.) Chapter V...
