Atua

We were nearly done, when old Popo inflicted the Atua howl (of which you have heard already) right at

Vailima Letters 2005

Atua had intended it so he would have sent them word about it long before he sent the white men into their country; and they conclude by stating that they know perfectly well the situation of the island where they are to go to after this life.

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

One of the kings of the district of Atua was supposed to be a man and move about among mortals in the daytime; but at night he was

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

_ -- This settlement, on the north side, was the principal residence of the kings of Atua.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

When he came to Samoa the land had been divided, but he got his share, as _the tail of Atua_.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

I endeavoured to impress on the minds of all my female friends the great danger of thus exposing themselves to cold; but they only laughed at my precautions, and said, "If Atua wished it, so it must be; they could not strive with the Great Spirit."

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

Their gods are numerous as in Greek religion, and likewise one of them is usually set up as the superior deity, to be the Tirawa of the Indian, the greater Atua of Polynesia, and the Mumbo Jumbo of a West African negro.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

The natives say, "It is Atua, the Great Spirit, coming into them, and eating up their inside; for the patient can feel those parts gradually go away, and then they become weaker and weaker till no more is left; after which the Spirit sends them to the happy island."

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

Hongi, being tabooed, or under the immediate protection of their Atua, or God, still sat apart.

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle

When the meeting was held for the division of the lands of Atua he did not attend, but the chiefs voted him the place and neighbourhood where he lived at Lepa, or the _wall_, which, of old, ran across the island and ended there, and hence the place was named Salefao -- sacred to, or, _the province of Lefao_.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner