powerful-is Thli*y-Toob6 .(literally,«# Wait there, Toobd”)*
He is the patron of the How or king, and is the god of war»
He has no priest but the king.—2. Tooi-fooa Bolotoo, or ■Chief
of all Bolotfi. He is inferior to Thli-y-Toofe6; has three or
four priests, whom he occasionally mspires.-*3. HlgooMo,
principallyvenerated by the Tooi-tonga’s family.—4. Toobo*
Toty, or Toobo the mariner, the god of voyages.—5. Alai*
Valoo, often consults! on behalf of sick persons.—6. Alo-Alo,
i. e. “ to fan,” the god of wind, weather, rain, harvest, and
vegetation^—7. Tooi Bolotoo, chief of Bolotoo.*—8. Hala
Apo Api.-—9» Togi-Ggamea,—and 10. Toobo Boogoo. All
these are minor gods of the sea and of voyages. 11. Tan*
galoa, or god of artificers, the Tongan Mercury.
Next in dignity to these original Hotooas or gods, are the
Hotooas which were souk of the Egi or nobles. These as
well as the preceding have the power of inspiring priests,
and of appearing to their friends in dreams and visions.
They have no temples or consecrated houses, but are invoked
at the graves or sepulchres of the dead.
The souls of Mataboulais come next in rank. They have
no power of inspiring priests, but are the tutelar gods of
their relatives, to whom they appear in a viable form.
Hotooa Pow, or mischievous gods, of whom there are
several, are a sort of goblins who plague men in various
ways, like the imps of vulgar belief in all countries.
We now come to the myth os which relates to the origin
of known and habitable lands. According to the Tongan
mythology, the gods, the ocean, Bolotoo, and the heavenly
bodies, had always'existed. Nought else was to be seen
above the level of the sea. The god Tangaloa* went out to
fish, and having let down from the sky his hook and line, he
caught something of immense weight, and which resisted his
efforts to raise it. Believing that he had hooked an immense
* According to the narrator of the exploring voyage lately sent out from
the United States, who derived their account from missionaries in the Tonga
Islands, the god who drew up the island of Tonga was not Tangaloa but
Maui. He says: “ They call the oldest god Maui, and say that he drew the
world or islands out of the Sea with a hook and line. Tangaloa in this
representation is but a second god.”
fish he exerted a£l his strength, and presently there appeared
aböve thé ssirfaee pomtanf röck> vfrhidb increased in number
aad eiéenti The line broke just m the god had succeeded in
raising the islands of Tonga/ above, the level of /the ocean.
The rock on which , his hëok stuck - to t e seen in thé
island of Hoonga, with the hole in which it caught* and the
hook was in the possession of the Tüitonga family till it waa
some time since accidentally destroyed.! ;
Tangaloa having t raised the grotipe .of islands above the
sea, next filled*-them with fty.it- ahd animals like those ;®f
Boloiu* but perishable aindof inferior quality, Hë sent his two
sons, Toobó and ¥éca^ficow-oéiij,#: with their;wives, to people
it. / Yica-hcow^ooli was wisè and yirtubiis ; Toobfi idle ; and
depraved. Envying tiieiprosperityt of* his brother, Toobó at
length killed hiim Tangaloa, engaged at- thks, sent Whoa*
Ééow-ooli yahd Ms family with prosperous twites to an eastern
land, where | they became andestors fof the Papalangif ot
White People. The descendants of Toobó were condemned
to be blaek because their hearts were b a d : they remained at
Tonga, and are the present race of i inhabitants*« j
Many suspicions Sèggëst thewselved against ièm authenticity
of this story;J hut the oldest men a t Tonga declared
■. *. The Tabitpn^ bad .tradipons and pteQi?ely^j«p,|^r character.
They perive vthe 9ng}P“p[ the the. gods, and ^placg, %e
primitive.abode of the gods in a distapt region towards mé feorm-wesh. \ This
póióte^tS Alia h'nd
f The origin of thisi Word Kiphlat^l* iS aaknidWA. Both Hafeb<#® tand
his editor Busehmanio regard it as a genuine old Tongan word, and . not as a
mere modern}expression invented as a na^nelor Europeans, >s£jgj$ they have
foundJbeir.way to. Tonga. They; rgferits probable qygin^o,ih$ obselete
language.
J Mariner suspected at first th a fir was a stoi^ Touifded^on a confused
recollection ofwh&t somemissionariesnaay have toid these1-people from the
Bible, and of the history. ÖF OÉn &W AM. But itïnay havé been a native
legend, and this is the mote likely from the local eowgiidity and apparently
indigenous origmOf the story -of Tangaloa and his fishing up the Tonga
Islands.
Humboldt thinks the resemblance of this tradition with the Mosaic account
ofiCain and Abel the more curious as in nearly all regions of the world
similar primitive! legends are found, as the tradition of a first pair, and
that of a general deluge, traced in the Sandwich Islands* and of the escape