5.  O LE AUMA—­The red liver.

This family god was seen, or incarnate, in the wild pigeon.  If any visitor happened to roast a pigeon while staying there, some member of the household would pay the penalty by being done up in leaves, as if ready to be baked, and carried and laid in the cool oven for a time, as an offering to show their unabated regard to Auma.

The use of the reddish-seared bread-fruit leaf for any purpose was also insulting to this deity.  Such leaves were in common use as plates on which to hand a bit of food from one to another, but that particular family dared not use them under a penalty of being seized with rheumatic swellings, or an eruption all over the body called tangosusu, and resembling chicken-pox.

6.  IULAUTALO—­Ends of the taro leaf.

To this family god the ends of leaves and other things were considered sacred, and not to be handled or used in any way.  In daily life it was no small trouble to this particular household to cut off the ends of all the taro, bread-fruit, and cocoa-nut leaves which they required for culinary purposes.  Ends of taro, yams, bananas, fish, etc., were also carefully laid aside, and considered as unfit to be eaten as if they were poison.  In a case of sickness, however, the god allowed, and indeed required, that the patient should be fanned with the ends of cocoa-nut leaflets.

7.  O LE ALII O FITI—­The Chief of Fiji.

This was the name of a god in a certain household, and present in the form of an eel, and hence the eel was never used by them as an article of food.  This god was supposed to be unusually kind, and never injured any of the family.  They showed their gratitude by presenting the first fruits of their taro plantation.

8.  LIMULIMUTA—­Sea-weed.

This was the name by which another protector was known.  If any members of the family went to fight at sea, they collected some sea-weed to take with them.  If in pursuit of a canoe, they threw out some of it to hinder the progress of the enemy, and make the chase successful in obtaining a decapitated head or two.  If the enemy tried to pick up any of this deified sea-weed it immediately sank, but rose again and floated on the surface if one of its friends paddled up to the spot.

9.  MOSO’OI.

This is the name of a tree (Conanga Odorata), the yellow flowers of which are highly fragrant.  In one place it was supposed to be the habitat of a household god, and anything aromatic or sweet-scented which the family happened to get was presented as an offering.

At any household gathering the god was sent for to be present.  Three different messengers had to go at short intervals, as it was not expected that he would come before the third appeal or entreaty for his presence.

10.  FATUPUAA MA LE FEE—­The pig’s heart and the octopus.