Myths and Songs from the South PacificH. S. King & Company, 1876 - 328 páginas |
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... light , if flints or other stone weapons are dredged up , or works of art disinterred , even if a hitherto unknown language is rendered accessible for the first time , no one , I think , who is acquainted with the scientific problems of ...
... light , if flints or other stone weapons are dredged up , or works of art disinterred , even if a hitherto unknown language is rendered accessible for the first time , no one , I think , who is acquainted with the scientific problems of ...
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... light could be expected from anywhere . But the very contrary is the case . There are many regions still to be explored , there are many facts , now put forward as certain , which require the most careful inspection , and as we read ...
... light could be expected from anywhere . But the very contrary is the case . There are many regions still to be explored , there are many facts , now put forward as certain , which require the most careful inspection , and as we read ...
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... to aid the student of ethnology in his researches . While there is much that is puerile and absurd in this heathen philosophy , there are evident glimmerings of primeval light . The Polynesian name for God expresses a great truth . The.
... to aid the student of ethnology in his researches . While there is much that is puerile and absurd in this heathen philosophy , there are evident glimmerings of primeval light . The Polynesian name for God expresses a great truth . The.
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... light . Rata's canoe . Prayer or charm for a thief or a murderer ... ... ... VIII . -HADES ; OR , THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRIT - WORLD . Aitutakian hell . Aitutakian heaven . Dramatic song of Miru . Sneezing . A farewell chanted at a reed ...
... light . Rata's canoe . Prayer or charm for a thief or a murderer ... ... ... VIII . -HADES ; OR , THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRIT - WORLD . Aitutakian hell . Aitutakian heaven . Dramatic song of Miru . Sneezing . A farewell chanted at a reed ...
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... light , there remained behind in the obscurity of nether - world the etherial form , or spirit , of The - well - poised . Now , Tangaroa was altogether the cleverest son of Vatea ; he instructed his brother Rongo in the arts of ...
... light , there remained behind in the obscurity of nether - world the etherial form , or spirit , of The - well - poised . Now , Tangaroa was altogether the cleverest son of Vatea ; he instructed his brother Rongo in the arts of ...
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