ical erection such
as was supposed to stand at the limits of the horizon and support the
dome of heaven." Points of the compass were named accordingly _Kukulu
hikina, Kukulu komohana, Kukulu hema, Kukulu akau_--east, west, south,
north. The horizon was called _Kukulu-o-ka-honua_--"the
compass-of-the-earth." The planes inclosed by such confines, on the
other hand, are named _Kahiki_. The circle of the sky which bends upward
from the horizon is called _Kahiki-ku_ or "vertical." That through
which, the eye travels in reaching the horizon, _Kahiki-moe_, or
"horizontal."]

[Footnote 2: The Rarotongan world of spirits is an underworld. (See
Gill's Myths and Songs.) The Hawaiians believed in a subterranean world
of the dead divided into two regions, in the upper of which Wakea
reigned; in the lower, Milu. Those who had not been sufficiently
religious "must lie under the spreading _Kou_ trees of Milu's world,
drink its waters and eat lizards and butterflies for food." Traditional
points from which the soul took its leap into this underworld are to be
found at the northern point of Hawaii, the west end of Maui, the south
and the northwest points of Oahu, and, most famous of all, at the mouth
of the great Waipio Valley on Hawaii. Compare Thomson's account from
Fiji of the "pathway of the shade." p. 119.]

[Footnote 3: White, I, chart; Gill, Myths and Songs, pp. 3, 4; Ellis,
III, 168-170.]

[Footnote 4: Gill says of the Hervey Islanders (p. 17 of notes): "The
state is conceived of as a long house standing east and west, chiefs
from the north and south sides of the island representing left and
right; under chiefs the rafters; individuals the leaves of the thatch.
These are the counterpart of the actual house (of the gods) in the
spirit world." Compare Stair, p. 210.]

[Footnote 5: Bastian, Samoanische Schoepfungs-Sage; Ellis, I, 321; White,
vol. I; Turner, Samoa, 3; Gill, Myths and Songs, pp. 1-20; Moerenhout I,
419 et seq.; Liliuokalani, translation of the Hawaiian "Song of
Creation"; Dixon, Oceanic Mythology.]

[Footnote 6: Moerenhout translates (I, 419): "He was, _Taaroa_ (Kanaloa)
was his name. He dwelt in immensity. Earth was not. _Taaroa_, called,
but nothing responded to him, and, existing alone, he changed himself
into the universe. The pivots (axes or orbits), this is _Taaroa_; the
rocks, this is he. _Taaroa_ is the sand, so is he named. _Taaroa_ is the
day. _Taaroa_ is the center. _Taaroa_ is the germ. _Taaroa_ is t