Note 6 — Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race.

Again, Oro or Koro, of the Society and Hervey groups, was the terrible God of War, on whose altars human sacrifices were offered. He was the son of Kangaloa, the principal deity of these groups. His name and attributes forcibly recall Horus the son of Osiris of Egyptian traditions and uro the Egyptian hieroglyphic name for king, as well as Hor the invincible War-God, from time immemorial, of the Raypoots in Northwestern India. “Gourou” or “Goro,” moreover, is an old Indian and Javanese word for deity in general, and its modern meaning is “a religious instructor.”6