morenhout

Updated: May 16, 2025

Thus: "'Twas the morning of time When yet naught was, Nor sand nor sea was there, Nor cooling streams. Earth was not formed Nor heaven above. A yawning gap was there And grass nowhere." Not unlike these conceptions of the "Beginning" is that which Morenhout found in a song of the Tahitans, and which ran thus: "He was; Toaroa was his name, He existed in space; no earth, no heaven, no men."

Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood - Oriental Religions and Christianity: A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the: Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891