SOME MAORIOLOGY.
“All sorts of care was taken by the old-time Maoris to appease their god of the seas before a tishing expedition was undertaken,” said Colonel Porter during an address on Maori'customs, in Wellington, “for should anything have given him cause for offence nothing but; bad luck, they firmly believed, could nmie upon the party. Their canoe would be upset and the (isliers gobbled up by (lie (aniwlm. or (hey would, in cases of less serious disaster, catch no lish and generally enjoy the worst of luck.” Colonel Porter mentioned several other strange Maori beliefs regarding fishing. One was that certain fish must be cooked in a certain way, otherwise not another school of that particular fish would pass along that section of the shore. Referring to the tradition of the fishing up of the North Island, “Ika Nui-a-Maui,” by the god Maui, the speaker mentioned that an inland tribe of the North Island, though hotly pressed on all sides and ordered to surrender, had steadfastly refused, for they in the centre of the island were “the entrails of the fish,” and ns such wore essential to the well-lming of the whole “fish.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1920, 28 December 1918, Page 1
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194SOME MAORIOLOGY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1920, 28 December 1918, Page 1
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