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By the tabu, all these were sacred to the men; the women spent their lives longing for them and wondering what they might taste like; and they died without finding out. These rules, as you see, were quite simple and clear. It was easy to remember them; and useful. For the penalty for infringing any rule in the whole list was death.
Tabu is a term with them which signifies consecrated not to be touched to be let alone not to be violated. Thus, according to their religious observances, a certain day will be proclaimed Tabu; that is, one upon which there is to be no work or no going out.
The Maoris had the tabu; and had it on a Polynesian scale of comprehensiveness and elaboration. Some of its features could have been importations from India and Judea.
But their resistance was unavailing: they were not only constrained to sit down to the repast in company with the men, but even to eat pork; and thus, to the great astonishment of such guests as were not in the secret, to violate, at the royal command, a double Tabu.
The characteristic feature of all such seasons of devout vicarious leisure is a more or less rigid tabu on all activity that is of human use. It may be remarked, parenthetically, that secular holidays are of the same origin, by slightly remoter derivation.
Actually he came to deliver an ultimatum from Hurst But, I mustn't disturb the harmony of this festive gathering with litigious discords." "Now, why mustn't you?" asked Thorndyke. "Why is a subject in which we are all keenly interested to be tabu? You don't mind telling us about it, do you?" "No, of course not.
And what is this business about circles of death? There's something here that's peculiar and I want to know what it is." "It's nothing. Truly. Just let's go back. Let's leave this place. It's no good. It's tabu." "Tabu? You've never used that word before." "Forbidden." "Who forbids it?" "The Gods the Old Ones. It is not for Lani. Nor for you." Her voice was harsh. "Come away before it is too late.
We found a pool famed in the legends of the natives. In the olden days the kings and chiefs would have made it tabu to themselves. Landers had on a pareu only, his two hundred and fifty pounds of bone and muscle a refreshing sight, and his eyes as bright as if he had had the prescribed eight hours.
He who violated a tabu was at once killed. Capital punishment seems to have been an effective restraint upon crime among these savages, contrary to the theories of some modern philosophers; probably it was effective for two reasons, because it was prompt and because it was certain.
I was seated beside Bill, and asked him the reason of this. "It is beneath his dignity, I believe, to feed himself," answered Bill; "but I dare say he's not particular, except on great occasions. They've a strange custom among them, Ralph, which is called tabu, and they carry it to great lengths.
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