atua
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of atua
Māori
Example Sentences
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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 Craik, George Lillie
Everywhere we find the same kind of higher being or god and the resemblance extends even to the name, usually some form of the word atua.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Here odooa is the Polynesian word which is usually spelled atua.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
In Tikopia the ghosts of dead ancestors and relatives as well as animals are atua and this connotation of the word appears to be general in other parts of Polynesia.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The objects of worship among the Tahitians, next to the atua or gods, were the oramatuas tiis or spirits.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
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