| William Ellis - 1829 - 606 pages
...resembling the popish custom of mass for souls in purgatory. Each individual returned to his home, or to his family marae, there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives, that they might be liberated from the po, or state of night, and ascend to rohutunoanoa, the mount... | |
| William Ellis - 1831 - 446 pages
...resembling the popish custom of mass for souls in purgatory. Each individual returned to his home, or to his family marae, there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives, that they might be liberated from the po, or state of night, and ascend to rohutunoanoa, the mount... | |
| Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - 1006 pages
...resembling the popish custom of mass for gouls in purgatory. Each individual returned to his home, or to his family marae, there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives, that they might be liberated from the po, or state of night, and ascend to rohutunoanoa, the mount... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - 1919 - 1112 pages
...enclosure. A sumptuous banquet was then held. The ceremony was viewed as a national acknowledgment to the gods. When the prayers were finished, and the...this was the new year's festival of the season of the Pleiades.12 Let us turn from the Islands of the Pacific to Peru, and there we find the primitive calendar... | |
| James George Frazer - 1922 - 472 pages
...the festival. At the close of the festival every one returned to his home, or to his family temple (marae), there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives, that they might be liberated from the po, or state of Night, and might either ascend to paradise ("... | |
| Frazer - 1913 - 468 pages
...the festival. At the close of the festival every one returned to his home, or to his family temple (marae), there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives, that they might be liberated from the po, or state of Night, and might either ascend to paradise ("... | |
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