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Hongi, being tabooed, or under the immediate protection of their Atua, or God, still sat apart. Then the mother of George, called Tururo, or the Queen, and who is regarded quite as a sybil by the whole tribe, approached Hongi with the greatest respect and caution, and seated herself some paces from his feet.
He spoke a string of words, among which Merton, as he repeated them, could only recognise mana and atua. The vowel sounds were as in Italian. 'Now these words you must never report to any one, without my permission. 'Not likely, said Merton, 'I only remember two of them, and these I knew before. 'All right, said Bude.
When this was done it was taken possession of by the Atua, whose spirit entered it.
Tamasese women and children were marched up the same day from Atua, and handed over with their sleeping-mats to Mulinuu: a most unwelcome addition to a party already suffering from want. By the 20th, they were being watered from the Adler.
The assumption of the Atua name spread discontent in that province; many chiefs from thence were convicted of disaffection, and condemned to labour with their hands upon the roads a great shock to the Samoan sense of the becoming, which was rendered the more sensible by the death of one of the number at his task. Mataafa was involved in the same trouble.
The Atua pow or mischievous gods. 6. From this it appears that the "Atuas" of the Polynesian are exactly equivalent to the "Elohim" of the old Israelite. The Tongans had no doubt that these Atuas daily and hourly influenced their destinies and could, conversely, be influenced by them.
He and some others were driven away from Fiji on account of bad conduct. When he came to Samoa the land had been divided, but he got his share, as the tail of Atua. He built a large house, and from this house of Lili the district was named. It embraces a number of villages and adjacent places, named after local circumstances or events.
I endeavoured to impress on the minds of all my female friends the great danger of thus exposing themselves to cold; but they only laughed at my precautions, and said, "If Atua wished it, so it must be; they could not strive with the Great Spirit."
The town was named after him, and to this day in all public gatherings the distribution of the food part of the entertainment is committed to some of the young men of this place. This village is closely attached to Lufilufi, and was so named from a lady called Luafata who lived there, and whose daughter married the king of Atua.
To these many other persons had attached themselves, so that, on the return of the missionaries to Tahiti, at the termination of the war, they found a great number of `pure Atua, or `praying people'; and they had little else to do but to help forward the work which God had so unexpectedly and wonderfully commenced.
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