Note 438 — Chapter IX · MYTHOLOGY (continued).

Grey, ‘Polyn. Myth.’ pp. 54-58; in his Maori texts, Ko nga Mahinga, pp. 28-30, Ko nga Mateatea, pp. xlviii.-ix. I have to thank Sir G. Grey for a more explicit and mythologically more consistent translation of the story of Maui’s entrance into the womb of Hine-nui-te-po and her crushing him to death between her thighs, than is given in his English version. Compare R. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ p. 132; Schirren, ‘Wandersagen der Neuseel.’ p. 33; Shortland, ‘Trads. of N. Z.’ p. 63 (a version of the myth of Maui’s death); see also pp. 171, 180, and Baker in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. i. p. 53.