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The chiefs won't sell an inch of this piece to any one; and not a Maori dares go near it. Lots of people have tried to buy it, and have even offered as much as five pounds an acre for its magnificent soil; but the Maoris are not to be tempted, and, what's more, say they'll have utu from any Pakeha that goes into it.
The month was also called Aitu tele, great god, from the principal worship of the month. At another place it was named Tangaloa tele, for a similar reason. This month was called Toe utu va, or digging again, and so named from the yam crop. The name is also explained as the further digging up of the winds to raise storms.
As to Utu, there is some doubt whether it represents a real pronunciation or not. My own opinion is that it does, and that the underlying stem is atû, which in Babylonian has almost the same meaning as bar or barû, viz., 'to see. 'Utu' would thus again designate the sun as 'that which shines forth.
But the victim was a chief of high rank and nearly related to Waharoa. It was incumbent therefore upon that redoubtable warrior to obtain utu for the slaughter of his relative. He was still a heathen, and was deaf to the exhortations of the Christians. "How sweet," he said, "will taste the flesh of the Rotoruas along with their new kumeras!"
This was greeted with a chorus of approval, and then leaving the women and children to attend to the camp, we hurried back to the canoes. Just as we were leaving the hut I had a look at the utu a fish I had never before seen. The back was covered with light green scales, the sides and belly a pure silver, and the fins and tail tipped with yellow.
One of them shook him and the thief fell back into the hold of the canoe, and blood was seen on his clothing and a hole in his back." What followed was a capital example of the Maori doctrine of utu, or compensation, the cause of so many wars and vendettas.
Bibl. Arch. viii. 68. So Amlaud; and there seems some reason to believe that the name was used by the side of Utu, though perhaps only as an epithet. Compare birbiru, 'sheen, and the stem barû, 'to see, etc. See Keils Bibl. 3, I, 100. Reading of name uncertain. Suggested by Rawlinson, ii. 57, 10. See Schrader, Zeits. f. Assyr. iii. 33 seq.
Then springing out from the rest, he swung a short-handled, keen-bladed hatchet over his head, and sank it into the brain of the wretched Baxter. * Synonymous with Maori utu revenge. "Stand thou aside, Banderah, son of Paylap," screamed the old man, waving the bloody hatchet fiercely at him.
Nor does this conception in any way betray itself, as being due to the changed political conditions that set in, with the union of the states under Hammurabi. Still, the age of the religious texts not being fixed, it is thus necessary to exercise some caution before using them without the basis of an allusion in the historical texts. Utu.
Ioane, disregarding the utu as being of no importance in comparison to a lahe'u, was plunging his paddle rapidly into the water, and endeavouring to back the canoe seaward into deeper water, but, in spite of his efforts and my own, we were being taken quickly inshore.
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