Note 1 — Things Similar in India, etc., and Polynesia.
Reading edition
What the Hawaiians called pohaku a kane, upright stones of from one to six and eight feet in height, the smaller size portable and the larger fixed in the ground, and which formerly served as altars or places of offering at what may be called family worship, probably referred to the Lingam symbolism of the Siwa cult in India,1 where similar stone pillars, considered as sacred, still abound.2