n-god, caught by Maui in nooses, 226

Radiguet, M., 338, 341, 357 _n._^1, 358, 373

Raiatea, one of the Society Islands, 246, 255, 258, 259, 266, 289,
315, 317, 318, 319

Rail-bird sacred, 95;
omens from, 190

Rainbow worshipped, 93, 182;
omens from, 191, 397;
emblem of deified chiefs, 204 _sq._;
superstitions about, 267, 269

_Rangatira_, gentleman, 43, 44;
landowners, 224

Rangi, god of sky, 34 _n._^2

Rarotonga, one of the Hervey Islands, 219, 221, 222, 224, 226, 228,
232, 243, 244

Raupa, a burial cave, 237

Recorders, sacred, 295 _sq._, 298

Red, bones of dead painted, 21;
tabooed, 227;
feathers regarded as divine, 290 _sq._

---- Cave, 239, 240

Reincarnation of the dead, 368 _sq._

Reinga, leaping-off place of souls (Maori), 27

Religion of Maoris concentrated on worship of dead kinsfolk, 34;
homogeneity of Polynesian, 35 _n._;
the Tongan, 64 _sqq._;
ethical influence of the Tongan, 146 _sq._;
of the Samoans, 181 _sqq._;
of the Hervey Islanders, 225 _sqq._;
early stage of, 226;
of the Society Islanders, 256 _sqq._;
without influence on morality, 318;
of the Marquesans, 348 _sqq._;
of the Hawaiians, 390 _sqq._

Remy, J., 412 _n._^1, 415 _n._^1

Renan, Ernest, on the Hebrew prophets, 147

Respect for chiefs in Samoa, 171 _sqq._

Resurrection of the dead, Hawaiian notions about the, 430 _sq._

Rewards, posthumous, no belief in, 67, 146

Rhodesia, Northern, belief as to mother of twins in, 269

Rib of the first man, the first woman created out of the, 393 _sq._

Rites, of burial and mourning in Tonga, 132 _sqq._;
funeral, in the Hervey Islands, 231 _sqq._;
religious, of the Society Islanders, 257;
of purification, 288.
_See_ Ceremonies

River of the Water of Life (Maori), 28;
in the nether world, 216

Rivers, W. H. R., 4 _n._^1, 119, 124 _n._^1, 128, 202, 218, 266 _n._^4

Roberts, E., 371

Rohutu, the abode of the dead, 319 _sq._, 327

Rongo, god of peace and agriculture, 35 _n._;
a great Polynesian god, 224, 225, 226, 392, 395;
his sacred stream and grove, 240, 241;
god, inventor of circumcision, 224

Rono, a great Hawaiian god, 404, 416.
_See_ Lono

Roscoe, J., 271

Routledge, S. and K., 279 _n._^1

Ruahatu, a sea-god, 276

S[=a]-le-Fe'e, the Samoan Tarta