Note 7 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

A person who was called an anaana priest was one who had vowed to strictly observe the laws of the order of priesthood, for a person could not learn anaana unless he first made a pledge to observe the ordinances of the order. A brief explanation is perhaps necessary. A person who was learning the practice of anaana was warned against anger and jealousy. He who did not observe the laws of the priesthood was called a “remnant-eater (aihamu)7 priest,” and those priests who were called “remnant-eaters” did not live long, but died, because the god that caused their death was the god of the order of priesthood.