Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific |
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... everything which grew would be sa ia Moa , or sacred to Moa , till his hair was cut . After a time his hair was cut and the restriction taken off , and hence also the rocks and the earth were called Sa CHAPTER II SAMOA ORIGIN OF THE NAME.
... everything which grew would be sa ia Moa , or sacred to Moa , till his hair was cut . After a time his hair was cut and the restriction taken off , and hence also the rocks and the earth were called Sa CHAPTER II SAMOA ORIGIN OF THE NAME.
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... taken down and set on the Laueleele , or sur- face of the earth . There was no sea at that time . Lu had a wife called Gaogao o le tai , expanse of sea . She had a son who was also called Lu , and when he grew up the vessel was given to ...
... taken down and set on the Laueleele , or sur- face of the earth . There was no sea at that time . Lu had a wife called Gaogao o le tai , expanse of sea . She had a son who was also called Lu , and when he grew up the vessel was given to ...
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... taken under the care of some god , or aitu , as it was called . The help of several of these gods was probably invoked in succession on the occasion , and the one who happened to be addressed just as the child was born was fixed on as ...
... taken under the care of some god , or aitu , as it was called . The help of several of these gods was probably invoked in succession on the occasion , and the one who happened to be addressed just as the child was born was fixed on as ...
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... taken into a house it showed a special fondness for a piece of white native cloth by stretching over to it , and hence this white cloth became an emblem of the god , and his worshippers in going to battle were known by white turbans ...
... taken into a house it showed a special fondness for a piece of white native cloth by stretching over to it , and hence this white cloth became an emblem of the god , and his worshippers in going to battle were known by white turbans ...
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... taken by the injured party to the priest to curse the thief and make him ill . The priest would then sit down with some select members of the family around the bowl representative of the god , and pray for speedy vengeance on the guilty ...
... taken by the injured party to the priest to curse the thief and make him ill . The priest would then sit down with some select members of the family around the bowl representative of the god , and pray for speedy vengeance on the guilty ...
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Ahtiago Aneiteum Apolima banana battle bird body bread-fruit brother buried bush called cannibal canoe chief child club cocoa-nut College cooked Crown 8vo daughter death district earth Edition English engraved Eromanga Falealupo father fcap feast feet fight Fiji fire fish fought fowl friends Galela gods heads of families heavens hence HISTORY Illustrations incarnate island JEENS killed king laid land Langi leaf Lima lived LL.D Mafuie Malietoa Manono Manu'a Maps married Mata mats Menado moon Moreton Bay Moso Mysot native cloth Nengone Niua Niue offerings oven party pigs plantations POLYNESIAN Portrait prayed prayer priest principal Professor Pulotu rocks Rotuma round sacred Samoan Saparua Savaii shell Siati sick spear stones story supposed Talanga Tama Tama iti Tangaloa taro temple Tidore Tinilau Tokelau told Tonga took tree Tutuila Upolu Vaté village wife woman women worshipped yams
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