atua
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of atua
Māori
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Marsden, on asking a New Zealander what he conceived the atua to be, was answered—"An immortal shadow."
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
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
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 Sir James George Frazer
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
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
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