Note 67 — Chapter XVI · NATIVE CULTURE IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES (continued)

The term “papa” is also applied to any flat, horizontal surface of fused igneous rock. The double use seems to be explained by connecting it with the facts that in Hawaii, Papa is the name of the female progenitor of the race (or at least of a line of chiefs), while in the Marquesas and Hervey Islands Papa is the earth personified, the Great Mother.—See A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, Alexander, p. 20.