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In Hawaii, Taaroa made man out of red earth, araea, and breathed into his nostrils. At the hill of Kauwiki, on the eastern point of the island of Maui, Hawaii, the heaven was so near the earth that it could be reached by the thrust of a strong spear, and is to-day called lani haahaa. Then the god of light separated from Tanaoa, fought him, drove him away, and confined him to night.
Taaroa, whose name was spelt differently in separated archipelagos, was the father of the Tahitian cosmogony. His wife was Hina, the earth, and his son, Oro, was ruler of the world.
He intoned it, solemnly, as might have an ancient prophet in Israel, as we sat in the starlit night, with the profound notes of the reef in unison with his deep cadence: He abides Taaroa by name In the immensity of space. There was no earth, there was no heaven, There was no sea, there was no mankind. Taaroa calls on high; He changes himself fully. O foundations, O rocks, Oh sands! here, here.
Nyankupon cannot be explained apart from Taaroa, Puluga, Ahone, Ndengei, Dendid, and Ta-li-y-Tochoo, Gods to be later described, who cannot, by any stretch of probabilities, be regarded as of European origin.
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