Polynesian Researches: During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands; Including Descriptions of the Natural History and Scenery of the Islands - with Remarks on the History, Mythology, Traditions, Government, Arts, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants, Volume 2Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1829 |
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... wife in good things . She teaches them night and day . She is constantly speaking to her steward , and to all her household . Very numerous are the words which she speaks , to encourage , and to strengthen them in the good way . " The ...
... wife in good things . She teaches them night and day . She is constantly speaking to her steward , and to all her household . Very numerous are the words which she speaks , to encourage , and to strengthen them in the good way . " The ...
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... wife , and that they became the pro- genitors of mankind . This always appeared to me a mere recital of the Mosaic account of creation , which they had heard from some European , and I never placed any reliance on it , although they ...
... wife , and that they became the pro- genitors of mankind . This always appeared to me a mere recital of the Mosaic account of creation , which they had heard from some European , and I never placed any reliance on it , although they ...
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... wife was sometimes called Tii , and sometimes Hina ; that when they died , their spirits were supposed to survive the dissolution of the body , and were still called by the same name , and hence the term tii was first applied to the ...
... wife was sometimes called Tii , and sometimes Hina ; that when they died , their spirits were supposed to survive the dissolution of the body , and were still called by the same name , and hence the term tii was first applied to the ...
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... wife of Tii , and bore to him a son , who was called Taata , the general name ( with slight modification ) for man throughout the Pacific . Hina , the daughter and wife of Taaroa , the grandmother of Taata , being trans- formed into a ...
... wife of Tii , and bore to him a son , who was called Taata , the general name ( with slight modification ) for man throughout the Pacific . Hina , the daughter and wife of Taaroa , the grandmother of Taata , being trans- formed into a ...
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... wife , or to be present when she ate ; and in this injunction may have originated the former universal practice among these islands , of the man and his wife eating their meat separately . Varuna and Vahni are among the gods of the ...
... wife , or to be present when she ate ; and in this injunction may have originated the former universal practice among these islands , of the man and his wife eating their meat separately . Varuna and Vahni are among the gods of the ...
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Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in ..., Volume 2 William Ellis Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
appeared Areois arrived attended Austral Islands baptized Barff bark body Borabora bread-fruit called canoe Captain Captain Cook casuarina ceremony chapel chiefs Christ Christianity church circumstances cloth cocoa-nut colour connexion considered coral crime declared deities desire district Divine dress dwellings effect Eimeo erected European favour feet females fish formed formerly frequently friends furnished gods habits Huahine human human sacrifices idolatry idols individual influence inhabitants kind king labour land laws Leeward Islands magistrate marae mats ment Missionaries mountains nation natives night occasion offered parties perhaps person Polynesian Pomare Pomare III prayers present prevailed priest principal punishment raatiras Raiatea received reef regarded resembling residence Rurutu Sabbath sacred Sandwich Islands Scripture ship shore side society Society Islands sometimes South Sea Islands spear spirits station supposed Taaroa Tahaa Tahiti Tahitian tataued temple tion tradition tree usually vessel voyage wife worship