...curiously enough, the word Fan', " beginning," signifies, on the island of Rarotonga, "mud/' showing that "these people imagined that once the world was a '...of which some mighty unseen agent, whom they called Fari, evolved the present order of things" (458. 3, 21). Another "All-Mother" is she of whom our own...

...curiously enough, the word Van, " beginning," signifies, on the island of Rarotonga, "mud," showing that "these people imagined that once the world was a '...they called Vari, evolved the present order of things "(458. 3, 21). Another "All-Mother" is she of whom our own poets have sung, " Nature," the source and...

...Barotonga and Mangaia, the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill says (Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, p. 21) — " These people imagined that once the world was a '...called Vari, evolved the present order of things." We hear of this Vari as Vari ma te takere, translated by Gill as " Vari, originator of all things."...

...Rarotonga and Mangaia, the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill says (Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, p. 21) — " These people imagined that once the world was a '...called Vari, evolved the present order of things." We hear of this Vari as Vari ma te takere, translated by Gill as " Vari, originator of all things."...

...Barotonga and Mangaia, the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill says (Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, p. 21) — " These people imagined that once the world was a 'chaos...of which some mighty unseen agent, whom they called Van, evolved the present order of things." We hear of this Vari as Vari ma te takere, translated by...