Die heilige Sage der Polynesier: Kosmogonie und Theologie

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˹éÒ 216 - I was two years among the Ahts, with my mind constantly directed towards the subject of their religious beliefs, before I could discover that they possessed any ideas as to an overruling power or a future state of existence. The traders on the coast, and other persons well acquainted with the people, told me that they had no such ideas, and this opinion was confirmed by conversation with many of the less intelligent savages ; but at last I succeeded in getting a satisfactory clue.
˹éÒ 221 - ... had begotten were ever thinking amongst themselves what might be the difference between darkness and light; they knew that beings had multiplied and increased, and yet light had never broken upon them, but it ever continued dark. Hence these sayings are found in our ancient religious services : " There was darkness from the first division of time, unto the tenth, to the hundredth, to the thousandth...
˹éÒ 262 - Forthwith was produced the sun, They were thrown up above as the chief eyes of Heaven: Then the Heavens became light, The early dawn, the early day, the mid-day. The blaze of...
˹éÒ 30 - He it is who separated night from day. Immediately on the Separation of Heaven from Earth, the people2 became visible, who had hitherto been concealed between the hollows of their parents' breasts. So now Tawhiri-Matea (the wind) thought he would make war against his brethren, because they had separated their parents; for he only had not consented to divide the wife from the husband. It was his brothers who resolved to separate them, and to leave but one — Earth — as a parent.
˹éÒ 35 - Earth ; but the love of the wife rises upward in sighs towards her husband. These are the mists which fly upwards from the mountaintops ; and the tears of Heaven fall downwards on his wife ; behold the dew-drops !
˹éÒ 28 - With reference to this period are the sayings, " during the night," " the first night," " from the first to the tenth night,f from the tenth to the hundredth, from the hundredth to the thousandth " — the meaning of which is, that the darkness had been without limit, and light had not yet existed. So the Sons of Rangi (the Heavens) and of Papa (the Earth) consulted together, and said, " Let us seek means whereby to destroy Heaven and Earth, or to separate them from each other.
˹éÒ 240 - Tui birds, which had been nestling there, feeding upon insects, and as they flew forth, the slaves caught and killed them, and filled the calabashes with them, and took them to the fire, and put them on to cook, and when they were done, they carried them and laid them before Rupe as a present, and then placed them beside him that he might eat, and Rehua requested him to eat food, but Rupe answered him: „Nay, but I cannot eat this food; I saw these birds loosened and take wing from thy locks; who...
˹éÒ 230 - Nay, not so. It is better to rend them apart, and to let the heaven stand far above us, and the earth lie under our feet. Let the sky become as a stranger to us, but the earth remain close to us as our nursing mother.
˹éÒ 240 - Rupe was wondering whence the food was to come from with which the calabashes, which the slaves had brought, were to be filled ; but presently he observed that Rehua was slowly loosening the thick bands which enveloped his locks around and upon the top of his head ; and when his long locks all floated loosely, he shook the dense masses of his hair, and forth from them came flying flocks of the Tui birds, which had been nestling there, feeding upon insects ; and as they flew forth, the slaves caught...
˹éÒ 30 - ... of waves, land shaker. 2 This is the beginning of first animal life. some to the South, some to the East, and others to the North, and these also are their names. Then sent he forth the Whirlwind and the Storm, and dismal dusky days, and dripping chilly skies, and arid scorching blasts, and all the host of Heaven; in clouds of dust the Storm -God leads them on! Now, on they rush to where the Forest -God stands boldly up, and seems to dare the storm.

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