OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY

BY ROLAND B. DIXON, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY HARVARD UNIVERSITY

VOLUME IX OF THE MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES

LOUIS HERBERT GRAY, A.M., PH.D., EDITOR GEORGE FOOT MOORE, A.M., D.D., LL.D., CONSULTING EDITOR,

BOSTON

MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

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Image of Kuila-moku, one of the Hawaiian patron deities of medicine. Prayers and offerings were made to him by the Kahuna, or shamans, when trying to cure patients. Peabody Museum, Massachusetts