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Updated: June 8, 2025
To myself it rather looks as if all impressions had their nunuai, real, bodiless, persistent, after-images; that the soul is the complex of all of these nunuai; that there is in the universe a kind of magical other, called mana, possessed, in different proportions, by different men, Vui, tamate, and material objects, and that the atai or ataro of a man dead, his ghost, retains its old, and acquires new mana.
The men said, "Cannot you see that if Tamate lives we shall live, and if he is murdered we shall be murdered? It is all right; we are going with him, and you will see us back all right with sago and betel-nuts." We left Port Moresby about nine a.m. with a light head wind; outside found the current very strong, setting easterly.
I have seen a woman suckling a child at one breast and a small pig at the other; that was at South Cape. I have seen it also at Hula and Aroma. Proceeding to the beach, we parted, old and well-known friends. "Gidage, must you go?" "Yes; I cannot now stay, Tamate." "Go, Gidage; how many moons until you return?" "Tamate, I cannot say; but hope to return."
He spoke strong words to them which made their hearts turn to water within them when he showed that they did wrong. He often stopped them from fighting. Ruatoka, with his wife, had sailed from the South Sea Islands with Tamate, who was to them their great hero. "My fathers of old were heathen, savage men on the island of Mangaia," he would say.
It was with him as it must be with all brave sons who serve that great Captain, Jesus Christ: he wanted to be in the front of the battle. When the great Tamate was killed and eaten by the cannibals of Goaribari, Ruatoka wrote a letter to a missionary who lived and still lives in Papua. This is the end of the letter: "Hear my wish. It is a great wish.
That is our point. 'God is a spirit, these beings are Gods, therefore 'these are spirits. But to their initial conception our idea of 'spirit' is lacking. They are beings who existed before death, and still exist. The beings which never were human, never died, are Vui, the ghosts are Tamate. Dr. Codrington uses 'ghosts' for Tamate, 'spirits' for Vui.
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