atua

In Polynesia the gods are called atua; the spirits and souls of the departed tiki.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Acontece que diretor de um órgão regulador tem palavra de peso não somente no segmento em que atua, mas também no mercado financeiro.

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Immediately the basket dropped from her hands and she cried out in agony that the atua or godhead of the chief, whose divinity had been thus profaned, would kill her.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

When uruhia (under the inspiration of the spirit), the priest was always considered as sacred as the god, and was called, during this period, atua, god, though at other times only denominated taura or priest.

Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods 1922

Whenever the priests wanted Tané moved to a shrine, this chap, te amo atua (the god-bearer) had to pack him on his back.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Lexicon_ as illustrated by the meaning of the Maori word _atua_.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

The word "hotooa" is the same as that which is usually spelt "atua" by Polynesian philologues, and it will be convenient to adopt this spelling.

Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The Society-Islanders had their day-born gods, but they were not supposed to be "of equal antiquity with the atua fauau po, or night-born gods."

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

The natives, as we learn from Cruise, have the greatest horror of a lizard, in the shape of which animal they believe it is that the atua (or demon) is wont to take possession of the dying, and to devour their entrails -- a superstition which may not be unconnected with the dread the alligator has spread among them by its actual ravages, or the stories that have been propagated respecting it.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832

Cook speaks, in the account of his third voyage, of a young man he had taken on board the ship, who, having one day performed this ceremony, could not be prevailed upon to eat a morsel till night, insisting that the atua would most certainly kill him if he did.

John Rutherford, the White Chief George Lillie Craik 1832