Note 1 — Things Similar in India, etc., and Polynesia.
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Dieffenbach (Travels in New Zealand, p. 64,) says that phallic sculptures are common on tombs, symbolic of vis generatrix of male or female originals.
In the Fiji group also, rude stones resembling milestones, are consecrated to this or that god, at which the natives deposit offerings and before which they worship. (Fiji and the Fijans, by Thos. Williams, p. 173). ↑