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Updated: June 24, 2025
There's a certain sex-linkage to telepathy, as you probably know." Kennon nodded. "All I could discover was that their dislike of Olympus was a basic emotion rather than reasoned thought. They were nervous, irritable, disobedient, and uncooperative while they were there and even they didn't know why. It was merely tabu. We even tried youngsters but the attitude was the same.
"Kalaniopuu, the king, arrived from Maui on the 24th of January, and immediately laid a tabu on the canoes, which prevented the women from visiting the ship, and consequently the men came on shore in great numbers, gratifying their infamous purposes in exchange for pieces of iron and small looking-glasses.
So the King sent his men forth under Major General Kalaimoku and the two host met a Kuamoo. The battle was long and fierce men and women fighting side by side, as was the custom and when the day was done the rebels were flying in every direction in hopeless panic, and idolatry and the tabu were dead in the land! The royalists marched gayly home to Kailua glorifying the new dispensation.
"The last I remember the king was puttin' it all over Scraggsy. And that Tabu boy was no slouch." McGuffey paused, and glanced warily around the boat, while a dawning horror appeared in his sunken eyes. "Go back, Neils go back for God's sake. There's two niggers still on the island. Bring 'em some water. They're cannibals Neils, but never mind. Get them aboard the poor devils if they're living.
The tabu was sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary; and the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred to the purpose for which it was set apart. It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King; meaning that they were for the service of his successor.
The tabu in the case of the priestly class goes farther and adds a refinement in the form of an injunction against their seeking worldly gain even where it may be had without debasing application to industry.
It did no harm, nor did the fervour of the other side do good. The two parties got healthfully tired with the exercise and "go" of it all, and at least they stirred the pot. But whatever they said or did, suffragists and antis never, so to speak, "met". The subject, from some occult sense of decorum, was tabu.
"You would naturally feel a disposition to examine it by the touch," said he, "but you will all see that, by the time it was touched by sixty individuals, it would be likely to be injured, if not destroyed. So I concluded to label it Tabu. And it has occurred to me that this will be a convenient mode of apprising you generally that any article must not be handled.
tabú: A utensil fashioned from half of a coconut shell. tajú: A thick beverage prepared from bean-meal and syrup. tampipi: A telescopic basket of woven palm, bamboo, or rattan. Tandang: A title of respect for an old man: from the Tagalog term for "old."
He, with the powerful aid of the Queen Dowager Kaahumanu, abolished tabu, and his subjects cast away their idols, and fell into indifferent scepticism, the high priest Hewahewa being the first to light the iconoclastic torch, having previously given his opinion that there was only one great akua or spirit in lani, the heavens.
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