Was there an early Polynesian 'sky father'?

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 8-26

  Marck, Jeff ^a  

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EID: 61949303585     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223349608572803     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. S. Percy Smith, 'History and traditions of Rarotonga, Part IV, Introduction', Journal of the Polynesian Society (hereinafter JPS), 28 (1919), 55
2. E.S.C. Handy, Polynesian Religion (Honolulu 1927), 312-3
3. R.W. Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia (Cambridge 1933), 2 vols
4. Robert D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (New York 1989)
5. Te Rangi Hiroa (P.H. Buck), Vikings of the Sun Rise (New York 1938)
6. The other work is Jeff Marck, 'The first order anthropomorphic gods of Polynesia', JPS, forthcoming
7. W.H. Goodenough, Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology (Chicago 1980), 128
8. Andrew Pawley ('Polynesian languages: a subgrouping based on shared innovations in morphology', JPS, 75 (1966), 39-64) identified innovations of Tongic, Nuclear Polynesian and Eastern Polynesian
9. and ('The relationships of Polynesian Outlier languages', JPS, 76 (1967), 259-96) considered the relationships of the Polynesian Outlier languages
10. Roger Green ('Linguistic subgrouping within Polynesia: the implications for prehistoric settlement', JPS, 75 (1966), 6-38) showed innovations of Central Eastern Polynesian, Marquesic and Tahitic
11. Jeff Marck ('Eastern Polynesian subgrouping today', paper delivered at the First Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu campus, 1993) expanded upon Green's arguments with materials from Biggs (POLLEX 1992) and showed a closer relationship between Mangarevan and Marquesan than had previously been recognised
12. Marck ('Polynesian language and culture history', PhD thesis, in preparation) gives an overview and more supporting evidence from Biggs (POLLEX 1992, 1993, 1994)
13. Ross Clark, Aspects of Proto-Polynesian Syntax (Auckland 1976)
14. Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (Honolulu 1970), 230, 379
15. Abraham Fomander, Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk Lore (Honolulu 1916-17), 18
16. William W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London 1876), 58-60
17. George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (Auckland 1885), 2
18. E.S.C. Handy, The Native Culture in the Marquesas (Honolulu 1923), 245
19. Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu 1928), 419-25
20. Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs, I, 1-45
21. Cf Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs, I, and Craig, Dictionary
22. Cf C. Maxwell Churchward, Tongan Dictionary (Tonga 1959), 260
23. Andrew Pawley, Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond, Comparative Oceanic lexicon, computer file, Dept of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995
24. Biggs, POLLEX, 1994
25. Cf Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs, I, 3-4, 6
26. F.W. Christian,'Notes on the Marquesas', JPS, 4 (1895), 187
27. Handy, Polynesian Religion, 38
28. Cf George Turner, Samoa a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (London 1884), 198
29. W.T. Pritchard, Polynesian Reminiscences (London 1866), 114
30. Handy, The Native Culture, 244
31. Marck, 'The first order anthropomorphic gods'
32. Te Rangi Hiroa, Ethnology of Mangareva (Honolulu 1938), 418-24, 508-9
33. Marta Langridge and Jennifer Terrell (trans. and ed.), Von den Steinen's Marquesan Myths (Canberra 1988), 66
34. Dorothy Barrère, 'Revisions and adulterations in Polynesian creation myths', in G.A. Highland (ed.), Polynesian Culture History: essays in honour of Kenneth P. Emory (Honolulu 1966), 104
35. Henry, Ancient Tahiti, 356
36. Eugène Caillot, Histoire des Religions de l'Archipel Paumotu (Paris 1932), 51
37. Te Rangi Hiroa, Ethnology of Tongareva (Honolulu 1932), 85
38. quoting Hare Hongi, 'The gods of the Maori, sons of light', JPS, 29 (1920), 25
39. Edward Tregear, The Maori Race (Wanganui 1904), 436
40. Johannes Andersen, Myths and Legends of the Polynesians (Sydney 1928), 356
41. Cf Marck, 'The first order'
42. Gill, Myths and Songs, 7-11
43. William W. Gill, 'Extracts from William W. Gill's papers', JPS, 20 (1911), 135-7
44. S. Percy Smith, 'Description of the fatherland and history of the Tamarua family', JPS, 28 (1919), 61
45. Cf Craig, Dictionary, 299
46. J. Frank Stimson, A Dictionary of the Tuamotu Dialects of the Polynesian Language (The Hague 1964), 572
47. cf Craig, Dictionary, 298-9
48. Craig, Dictionary, citing Henry, Ancient Tahiti, 349
49. citing Stimson, Dictionary of the Tuamotu, 572
50. Hiroa, Ethnology of Tongareva, 85
51. Caillot, Histoire, 50-1
52. J. Frank Stimson, Tuamotuan Religion (Honolulu 1933), 9-69
53. Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs, 16. Note that there are memories throughout the Cooks and Societies all the way over to the Marquesas of having come from the Samoa, Tonga, Fiji area. The names of specific islands in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa are remembered in genealogies, chants and other oral history. Easter Islanders, Hawai'ians and possibly the NZ Maori seem not to have such memories
54. Stimson, Tuamotuan Religion, 9-69
55. Barrère, 'Revisions and adulterations'
56. William Ellis, Polynesian Researches (London 1967), II, 42-3
57. Ellis, Polynesian Researches, vols I, II
58. Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology
59. Beckwith, op. cit.
60. Fornander, Hawaiian Antiquities and Folklore, 17-18
61. And so eloquently dismissed by E.E. Evans-Pritchard: 'The comparative method in social anthropology', L.T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lecture, University of London, 14 May 1963