The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 569 pages of information about The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai.

[Footnote 1:  Bastian In Samoanische Schoepfungssage (p. 8) says:  “Oceanien (im Zusammenbegriff von Polynesien und Mikronesien) repraesentirt (bei vorlaeufigem Ausschluss von Melanesien schon) einen Flaechenraum, der alles Aehnliche auf dem Globus intellectualis weit uebertrifft (von Hawaii bis Neu-Seeland, von der Oster-Insel bis zu den Marianen), und wenn es sich hier um Inseln handelt durch Meeresweiten getrennt, ist aus solch insularer Differenzirung gerade das Hilfsmittel comparativer Methode geboten fuer die Induction, um dasselbe, wie biologiseh sonst, hier auf psychologischem Arbeitsfelde zur Verwendung zu bringen.”  Compare:  Kraemer, p. 394; Finck, in Royal Scientific Society of Goettingen, 1909.]

[Footnote 2:  Lesson says of the Polynesian groups (I, 378):  “On sait ... que tous ont, pour loi civile et religieuse, la meme interdiction; que leurs institutions, leurs ceremonies sont semblables; que leurs croyances sont foncierement identiques; qu’ils ont le meme culte, les memes coutumes, les memes usages principaux; qu’ils ont enfin les memes moeurs et les memes traditions.  Tout semble donc, a priori, annoncer que, quelque soit leur eloignement les uns des autres, les Polynesiens ont tire d’une meme source cette communaute d’idees et de langage; qu’ils ne sont, par consequent, que les tribus disperses d’une meme nation, et que ces tribus ne se sont separees qu’a une epoque ou la langue et les idees politiques et religieuses de cette nation etaient deja fixees.”]

[Footnote 3:  Compare:  Stair, Old Samoa, p. 271; White, I, 176; Fison, pp. 1, 19; Smith, Hawaiki, p. 123; Lesson, II, 207, 209; Grey, pp. 108-234; Baessler, Neue Suedsee-Bilder, p. 113; Thomson, p. 15.]

[Footnote 4:  Lesson (II, 190) enumerates eleven small islands, covering 40 degrees of latitude, scattered between Hawaii and the islands to the south, four showing traces of ancient habitation, which he believes to mark the old route from Hawaii to the islands to the southeast.  According to Hawaiian tradition, which is by no means historically accurate, what is called the second migration period to Hawaii seems to have occurred between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries (dated from the arrival of the high priest Paao at Kohala, Hawaii, 18 generations before Kamehameha); to have come from the southeast; to have introduced a sacerdotal system whose priesthood, symbols, and temple structure persisted up to the time of the abandoning of the old faith in 1819.  Compare Alexander’s History, ch.  III; Malo, pp. 25, 323; Lesson, II, 160-169.]

[Footnote 5:  Kahiki, in Hawaiian chants, is the term used to designate a “foreign land” in general and does not refer especially to the island of Tahiti in the Society Group.]

[Footnote 6:  Lesson, II, 152.]

[Footnote 7:  Ibid., 170.]

[Footnote 8:  Ibid., 178.]

2.  POLYNESIAN COSMOGONY

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