atua
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of atua
Māori
Example Sentences
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When the clouds are beautifully chequered," writes Kendal, "the atua above, it is supposed, is planting sweet potatoes.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
He, and other 'original gods' of his making, are carefully and absolutely discriminated from the atua, which are 'the human soul after its separation from the body.'
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
The Marquesan term for a god was the usual Polynesian word atua or, as it is sometimes spelled, etua.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
Among themselves, the New Zealanders appear to have a great variety of other gods, besides the one whom they call emphatically the atua.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
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."
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
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