| 单词 | tabu |
| 例句 | George notes that our word “taboo” is believed to derive from one of two Polynesian words: tapua, which means “menstruation,” or tabu, which means “apart.” The History of Blood 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The tabu on horses and dogs thus renders unthinkable the consumption of a set of animals whose production is practically feasible and which are nutritionally not to be despised. They eat horses, don't they? 2013-09-06T18:15:07.913Z The legends taught that no ghost passing out of the body could return unless it made the life of the aumakuas tabu to itself. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z It was tabu for a messenger to go direct to the army lest he should dispirit the troops. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z In military and naval circles, for instance, certain subjects are tabu. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Thus it was that he placed the divine tabu on the abuse and destruction of all that was beneficial to humanity, but especially on men, animals and the produce of the earth. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z But as knowledge increases, sex "tabus" develop, some wise, and some foolish. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z They were taken inside a tabu temple and brought up. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z It is tabu for an inferior to decline food offered to him by a chief. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z But these men who are left on our hands are tabu. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z With regard to takoia, there is an observance of tabu when a death occurs. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z There are no totemic tabus nor is there worship of the clan totem. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He had only known a time of tabu, but not the secret drum, and the soft chant. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Human flesh was tabu to women, and the Mbau women of rank who indulged in it did so in secret. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Promise me, here and now, that you will never eat man again, and that you will make it tabu to your people. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z On their spears were the great sharks' teeth, and their tabu staffs were crowned with kapa black or white. Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League 2011-03-03T03:00:48.280Z Throughout Polynesia the community is divided into nobles or chiefs, freemen and slaves, which divisions are, by reason of tabu, as sharp as those of caste. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Haina-kolo was one who did not closely adhere to the tabu. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z His descendant, the tribal chief, is set within the pale of the tabu: his will may not be disobeyed, nor his body touched without incurring the wrath of the Unseen. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Originally, no doubt, they were regarded as a means of keeping oneself in proper relations with the other world—the world of Faëry—and were akin to the well-known Polynesian practice of the “tabu.” Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race He was caught and placed in a tabu box. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina An institution thoroughly suggestive of Malayo-Polynesian sociology is that of fadi or tabu, which enters into every sphere of human activity. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Ke-au-nini had always carefully, from his birth to marriage-day, observed the tabu, but, following the example of his wife, soon laid aside his carefulness, and lived in full disregard of all restraint for a time. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z No sooner had a missionary gained a foothold in a chief village than the tabu was doomed, and on the tabu depended half the people's reverence for rank. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Thus the food tabu fell finally at court. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) In its ancient stories were remnants of primitive religion, of tabu, of anthropomorphic gods, of native forms of worship, of magic and divination, of local and tribal cults. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Meanwhile, as Captain Gray truly remarks, the Australian Kobong has elements in common with the Polynesian tabu! The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Her tabu rank is the same as the tabu rank of this fine young chief. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Hedged about by the tabu he can scarce move hand or foot without circumspection. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The fall of one tabu involved the fall of others; the land was plunged in dissolution; morals ceased. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) To an early Greek tribe the world of possible action was sharply divided between what was Themis and what was Not Themis, between lawful and tabu, holy and unholy, correct and forbidden. Five Stages of Greek Religion He turned the bill over and over in his fingers, at last bowed low and formally, apologized for any tabu violations, and left via the front door. Teething Ring The messenger reported that he had found certain tabu surf waters of the Kona beach and had seen a very high chiefess who alone played with her surf-board on the incoming waves. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z They have each married outside the tribe, yet their children L. and J. are tabu just as much as if G. and H. had married and they were the offspring of the marriage. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The party of the priest prevailed; the King’s men were dragged in a body into the opposite temple; and the tabus were maintained. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) But there is also a negative side to be considered: there is not only the mana, but the tabu, the Forbidden, the Thing Feared. Five Stages of Greek Religion Madam," said the Major with dignity, "I dislike violating local tabus, but must I explain the impact of a neural distorter on a backwater culture? Teething Ring He anointed his body with the kukui oil until it glistened like the polished leaves of trees; then taking his surf-board he went boldly to the tabu surf waters of his sister. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z But she, being of a different generation, is tabu to him; hence he must avoid her absolutely, lest he be tempted by her charms to break through the law of the system. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z There were certain tabu days when no canoe could be launched, no fire lighted, and when no sound could be made, on pain of death. The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial The Works and Days form an attempt to collect and arrange the rules and tabus relating to agriculture. Five Stages of Greek Religion The subject, from some occult sense of decorum, was tabu. The Prisoner When she learned that an exceedingly handsome chief of the highest rank was sporting among her tabu waters she determined to see him. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z C. and D., being the offspring of two brothers, are tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The tabu system covered the entire daily life of the people with a vast network of minute regulations and penalties. The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial The savage who is breaking the laws of his tribe has all his world—totems, tabus, earth, sky and all—against him. Five Stages of Greek Religion They followed and it led to a stream and along the stream until they came to the tabu of the green pool, and could go no farther. Happy Ending This was the last heiau destroyed when the ancient tabus and ceremonial rites were overthrown by the chiefs just before the coming of Christian missionaries. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z It must not be understood, however, that in these remote occurrences the tabu relationships are always strongly tabu, or that the concubitant relationships always entail marriage. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Thus, it was tabu for men and women to eat together, or even to have their food cooked in the same oven. The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial Now, when the isolation is willed and has at the same time the emotional nature of a tabu, the handicap is very grave indeed. Introduction to the Science of Sociology To harm one who was mad was tabu. Happy Ending They were to build a tabu fence around the heiau and put up the sacred tabu staffs of white tapa cloth. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z They cannot therefore be tabu, and, through their relationship, they become concubitant. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z I promised to convey to Paragot the tabu of the Black Boar, and then I asked her which she preferred, England or France. The Belovéd Vagabond Tell them that murder is esteemed "tabu", That the Red Cross is now a sacred sign; Tell them no more than that; it will be new; They have no need of ritual on the Rhine. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 For they had, they knew, cut very close to the corner of a tabu—but the provocation had been great and they hoped they would not be punished. Happy Ending She was very beautiful and was kept tabu. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z They marry, and of course their children being brother and sister are again tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Anything forbidden by their law or customs was called "tabu." Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California All women were tabu to all save the Father, but the High Priestess was doubly sacred. B. C. 30,000 On approaching the volcano, she met the priestess of Pele, who warned her not to go near the crater and predicted her death if she violated the tabus of the goddess. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror There they saw a rainbow resting over the home of a tabu chief, Ka-lua-hine. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z But if D. had been a male who had married F. a female, G. and H. would have been tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z He abolished idolatry, broke the tabus; men and women for the first time ate together, and the temples and gods were burned to ashes. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California "Una has stolen that which is tabu to her and I will punish her." B. C. 30,000 If I perish by her anger, then you may fear Pele; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he preserve me when breaking her tabus, then you must fear and serve him alone....” Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Milu's people called out, "Here are men breaking the tabu of the chief." Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z These are tabu to one another, being, as I have said, regarded as being as closely consanguineous as actual brothers and sisters. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z When they are not allowed to touch anything they say it is tabu. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century You know as well as I do that a tabu like this is a serious business. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 The same idea is carried out in the tabu which generally accompanies the treatment. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 This was a tabu drum place, and not a temple of safety. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z It does not appear to have been strictly a religious rite, though, like all ceremonial acts of the Fijians, it was invested with a religious observance of the tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The custom of "tabu" was just as universally practised as in the Friendly Islands, and the natives were always careful to ask if things were "tabu" before they touched them. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century This tabu on his own business will teach him a lesson. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 And this is the tabu for seven nights. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 Then they told about the anger of the people, the pursuit, and their entrance into the tabu temple. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Safe from popular outbreak, he began to enjoy increased veneration owing to the more rigid tabu that hedged him in. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The arrival of "Terreoboo" had made the bay "tabu," and prevented any communication with the strangers. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Seems unusually baffled and exasperated by some of the social mores he runs into, such as the many tabu subjects for conversation, or taking your clothes off whenever or wherever you feel inclined to. The Short Life No directions were given as to diet or tabu. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 Awa was thrown before the spirit of the thunder and they established tabus. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z It was tabu to strangle his widow, though the widows of no other chief were exempt from paying that last honour to the dead. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z His followers objected to his descending below decks, saying it was "tabu" and that it was not allowed for any one to walk over his head. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century But its workers were tabu in respectable society, and priestly hands were held aloft in pretended horror whenever the name of Robert Owen, or the word "Socialism," was used. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen In this case no tabu is specified beyond the fact that both doctor and patient must be fasting. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 We will set apart our tabu days for worship, and I will see your tabu place—you in your place and I outside. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z When they round the point a great shout is raised, 'Lo! the water-canoes!' and every one shuts himself fast behind doors, for now every noise, even the crying of children, is tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z He went his simple way, but to escape being pointed out, he kept from all crowds, and public functions were to him tabu. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers In that manner the old idea of tabu, that seems to have transformed the temples of Astarte into houses of debauchery, also became the source of a severe code of morals. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism From the form of the verb the tabu, except as regards the seat to be used by the sick person, seems to apply to both doctor and patient. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 The parents had divine power, so also the boy, both alike, and could dwell together without breaking tabu. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The tabus and ceremonies surrounding it clearly indicate its religious origin. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he might be bewitched to her girdle. Witch-Doctors The Semitic tribes were haunted with the fear of the tabu. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism There is nothing new or unnatural in this repression, this tabu on expectoration. Preventable Diseases She ate the tabu things, which were sacred, belonging to the gods, such as bananas and luau. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Preparation for the Vilavou began months before the appointed time by putting all kinds of food and property under a tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The terror of the tabu, of the power of the Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than his fear of Eyes-in-the-hands, wizard and ex-member of the inner cult though he be. Witch-Doctors But, as in the Syrian cults of the imperial period, these Mithraic rites did remain simply formal, mechanical and of the flesh, inspired by the old idea of tabu. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Well, whether it was the sun or the strawberries, the fact remains Cherry was in bed for three days, and since then strawberries are tabu. Afterwards They made the place tabu, and used the clay, sometimes eating it, but generally plastering the hair with it. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z During this long period they observed certain tabus, and spent the days in complete idleness. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith Bakahenzie took more precautions than ever before to surround the captured god with the toughest fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation. Witch-Doctors If the breach of discipline was gross and willful, an act of outrageous violence or the neglect of tabu, the offender could be restored only after penitence and confession. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Moreover, a man's soul may be enticed from his body and detained by a demon or tabu, as the Koita call it. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia It was my second experience with being somehow tabu, and I didn't like it. The Door Through Space The tabu relationship also occurs artificially between the children respectively of concubitants who have broken through the system, and have not married, but to this I will refer in its proper place. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Had he not paid seven tusks of good ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible tabu? Witch-Doctors The awful grasp of this law; this repressive force, the tabu, held fast the student from the moment of his entrance into the halau. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The whole idea was a phase of totemism and tabu. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers If all books but those first submitted to approval were tabu: Quinet was thrice caught reading Voltaire. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making G. and H. being the children of tabu relations are concubitants. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z But such action was arrested by fear of the consequences from his fellows to whom the tabu was still real, and of the white man, Moonspirit. Witch-Doctors Under the head of tabus certain articles of food were denied; for instance, the sugar-cane--ko--was forbidden. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula They have made sickness not only tabu, but invalidism ridiculous. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The younger generation has discarded all tabus, and in matters of sex we must be prepared for a period of unbridled license. Outspoken Essays It will thus be seen that the concubitant and the tabu alternate generation after generation. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Between the conqueror and the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel; the same wall of tabu of the craft that Birnier was finding so difficult to penetrate. Witch-Doctors Then came another period of dance and song; and then, having cantillated a pule hoonoa, to lift the tabu, the kumu went forth to his own ceremonial cleansing bath in the sea. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula All is affirmative, yet it is understood that some things are tabu—tobacco, for instance, and strong drink, of course. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The wrath of heaven may visit not the innocent violation of some tabu, but cruelty and injustice. Outspoken Essays For several days they are kept in the temple under the usual restrictions laid upon persons who are tabu. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z She was impatient, too, at the delay caused by the three days’ tabu. Witch-Doctors Within historic times, since the abrogation of the tabu system and the loosening of the old polytheistic ideas, there has been in the hula a lowering of former standards, in some respects a degeneration. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula In the Marquesas Islands the use of canoes is prohibited to the female sex by tabu: the breaking of the rule is punished with death. Sex and Society He liked anybody who had pep enough to have an original feeling, not one prescribed by the ritual and tabu of his particular tribe. The Brimming Cup The singana was eaten by the priest and a few privileged old men; it was tabu to youths and women. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Just now it is almost impossible to obtain one, all the feathers being 'tabu,' to make a royal cloak for Ruth, half-sister of Kamehameha V., and governess of Hawaii. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months The first duty of a visitor on being admitted to the halau while the tabu was on--that is, during the conduct of a regular hula--was to do reverence at the kuahu. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Conversely, amongst the same people tapa-making belongs exclusively to the women: when they are making it for their own headdresses it is tabu for the men to touch it. Sex and Society They were priestesses of some magico-religious cult practised by women, like the guardians of the sacred fire in Ireland, which was tabu to men. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Once I persuaded a man to break the tabu and eat some fowl. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Why sitting in the dark in a moving picture theater is allowed, and the restaurant is tabu is very mysterious. Etiquette You shall feast on king's bounty: No fear of the tabu, all's free. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The house was about twenty-five feet in length and stood in a reed and bamboo enclosure, across the entrance of which a bundle of dried grass was suspended to show that it was strictly tabu. Sex and Society In some of these Irish shape-shifting tales we find this tabu referred to. The Religion of the Ancient Celts There was some quality in human flesh that made it tabu to touch it with the fingers or the lips. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z They that made of the world that smoky mist of magic were elves, and they did so because Conaire's tabus had been violated. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes When performed in the halau as a tabu dance, according to some, the olapa alone took part, and the number of dancers, never very large, was at times limited to one performer. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The old grounds for chastity in primitive religions and tabu have decayed and no new grounds have been generally established. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The reason of an existing tabu seemed to be sufficiently explained when it was told that certain human beings had become swans. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Moreover, the fork was tabu to every one but its owner, and if it belonged to a high chief, it had always a name of its own. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z It was a tabu of mine for those Three to go before me--the three Reds to the house of Red. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes These stones were set up in very ancient times and are said to have been tabu to women at the times of their infirmity. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Numberless are the jovial and contented husbands who have never suspected, and will never know, that their wives carry about with them, sometimes with silent resentment, the ache of mysterious tabus. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society On the other hand, as all tribal lore was once in the hands of the wise woman, such tabus and legends may have arisen when men began to claim such lore. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Kamehameha I Click Thumbnail for full-size Illustration He who violated a tabu was at once killed. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Thy reign will be subject to a restriction, but the bird-reign will be noble, and this shall be thy restriction, i.e. thy tabu. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes During the performance of a hula the halau and all the people there assembled are under a tabu, the imposition of which was accomplished by the opening prayer that had been offered before the altar. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Shortly before the abolition of the tabus, a little child had one of her eyes scooped out for the same offense. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient It followed the general course of tabu wherever found. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The house was about twenty-five feet in length, and stood in a reed and bamboo enclosure, across the entrance to which a bundle of dried grass was suspended to show that it was strictly 'tabu.' Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul He went, however, although to do so was one of his tabus, and he made peace between them. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes They died in support of the cause of law and order, of religion and tabu, the cause of the conservative party in Hawaii, as opposed to license and the abolition of all restraint. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The extent to which social tabus and prudery may actually inhibit a woman's natural sexual development makes it possible, as we have seen, for her to marry in ignorance of what marriage implies. Sex and Common-Sense They must therefore be careful of their actions, and hence they are hedged about with tabus which, however unmeaning, have a direct connection with their powers. The Religion of the Ancient Celts In a paroxysm of rage and disappointment Kaaialii threw himself upon the ground cursing the tabu that barred him from his enemy. Primitive Love and Love-Stories "Though it be a tabu," she replied, "I will not go until my guesting come at once this very night." The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes The hula hoo-na-n�--to quiet, amuse--was an informal dance, such as was performed without the usual restrictions of tabu that hedged about the set dances of the halau. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Historians and anthropologists have taught us that among all peoples, however barbarous, there are conventions, sanctions, tabus, by which the relations of men and women are regulated. Sex and Common-Sense Geasa, whether in the sense of tabus or of obligations, could be imposed by any one, and must be obeyed, for disobedience produced disastrous effects. The Religion of the Ancient Celts They had tabus as strict as a Maori's. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 "Let her in, though it is a tabu of mine." The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes Another stringent tabu forbade anyone to perform an office of nature while his face was turned toward one of these pillars. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula As with all peoples whose religion is barbarous, there were ways of obtaining sanctuary and many a man has saved his life by taking advantage of the tabus which secured their operation. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Among savages the punishment which is supposed to follow tabu-breaking is often produced through auto-suggestion when a tabu has been unconsciously infringed and this has afterwards been discovered. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Second, the war is no longer tabu; witness "The Tribute," and "His Soul Goes Marching On." O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 This tabu on labour has a further consequence in the industrial differentiation of classes. Theory of the Leisure Class The tabu waved before his imagination like a flaming sword, barring approach to the Eden of his strongest propensity. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula First converted by the Catholics, he threw down the idols, broke the tabus, cleaned out the native priests, executed a few of the recalcitrant ones, and sent all his subjects to church. The Red One Fionn was told by his wife, a wise woman, never to drink out of a horn, but coming one day thirsty to a well, he forgot this tabu, and so brought the end near. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Old Kamehameha I., was dead, and his son, Liholiho, the new King was a free liver, a roystering, dissolute fellow, and hated the restraints of the ancient tabu. Roughing It, Part 8. The characteristic feature of all such seasons of devout vicarious leisure is a more or less rigid tabu on all activity that is of human use. Theory of the Leisure Class Ye gods are still tabu; We mortals are free. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula It should be remarked that this frequent carrying of a sick chief from one house to another resulted from the tabu system, then in force. Roughing It, Part 7. Legends telling of the danger of removing or altering a well, or of the well moving elsewhere because a woman washed her hands in it, point to old tabus concerning wells. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Then conviction came like a revelation—the superstitions of a hundred generations passed from before the people like a cloud, and a shout went up, "the tabu is broken! the tabu is broken!" Roughing It, Part 8. It is true, this conduct may have been due, at least in part, to an excessive sanctity or tabu attaching to the chief's person. Theory of the Leisure Class The meaning is that the pa-�, when wrapped about the woman's loins, laid a tabu on the woman. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula To-morrow morning there will be a tabu, and, if the sacrifice be delayed until that time, forty men must die.' Roughing It, Part 7. Savage "mysteries" are usually tabu to women, who also exclude men from their sacred rites. The Religion of the Ancient Celts What had happened was that the king had departed, leaving the bay under "tabu," i.e., a sacred interdict. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World The tabu would have been communicated by the contact of his hands, and so would have made anything touched by him unfit for human food. Theory of the Leisure Class Cut, cut through, cut off the corners; Cut round, like crescent moon of Hoaka; Cut in scallops this shift that makes tabu: 40A fringe is this for the pa-�. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The tabu was sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary; and the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred to the purpose for which it was set apart. Roughing It, Part 7. It has been already seen that certain fish living in sacred wells were tabu, and were believed to give oracles. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The king hurried back on hearing of the return of the ships, and removed the tabu; but the native disposition was changed. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World Under the tabu, certain victuals, and more particularly certain beverages, are strictly reserved for the use of the superior class. Theory of the Leisure Class Here, fenced from each other by tabu, Your graces make sport for the crowd. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The husband also observes all these tabus and precautions. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 It was tabu to Cúchulainn, "the hound of Culann," to eat dog's flesh, and, having been persuaded to do this, his strength went from him, and he perished. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Some of the party on shore had persuaded women to break the tabu. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World The higher schools and the learned professions were until recently tabu to the women. Theory of the Leisure Class The hula ulili, also called by the descriptive name kolili--to wave or flutter, as a pennant--was a hula that was not at all times confined to the tabu restrictions of the halau. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Of course, the blacks of North Queensland in native worth have not much art in the killing of birds, but in every case "calloo-calloo" is tabu. My Tropic Isle They unite with mortals, who, as in the Swan-maiden tales, lose their fairy brides through breaking a tabu. The Religion of the Ancient Celts For the direction tabu, see Note on Princess Labam, supra, No. ii. Indian Fairy Tales Donatus was already so far away from that day that he had no feeling for its social tabus. Vergil A Biography In the sudden transition from the tabu system to the new order of things that came in with the death of Kamehameha in 1819, the old fashion of song soon found itself antiquated and outdistanced. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula A small potato field was placed under tabu, near the Morai, for the purpose of the observatory, and a camp under the command of King was established there. The Life of Captain James Cook When she disappears into the waters after the breaking of the tabu, the lake is sometimes drained in order to recover her; the father then appears and threatens to submerge the whole district. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Why is a subject in which we are all keenly interested to be tabu? The Vanishing Man In a northerly direction is the place where Liholiho, the king who died in England, excited by drink and the persuasions of Kaahumanu, broke tabu, and made an end of the superstitions of heathenism. The Hawaiian Archipelago If the entire force of the tabu was not thus removed, it was at least so greatly mitigated that the ordinary conversations of life might be carried on without offense. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula A tabu was placed on the whole of the bay on the 24th, and trading came to a complete standstill, the reason given being the coming of the king, Terreeoboo. The Life of Captain James Cook Another story describes his attack upon Morrigan because she would neither yield up the cows which she was driving away nor tell her true name—an instance of the well-known name tabu. The Religion of the Ancient Celts As to tabus, the following are curious specific instances. Ancient China Simplified Indeed the Christian teachers seem to have been regarded as tabu. The Hawaiian Archipelago The people were superstitiously religious; one finds their drama saturated with religious feeling, hedged about with tabu, loaded down with prayer and sacrifice. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula But we have gotten thus far: that the man who cheats in trade is tabu. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Wherever divine kings are found, fertility is bound up with them and with the due observance of their tabus. The Religion of the Ancient Celts To the English dramatist the whole story would be tabu; but if the Continental man had got some striking situations out of it, the Briton's soul would hanker after those situations. Without Prejudice Within was the sacred pale of pahu tabu, and anyone attempting to strike his victim there would have been put to death by the priests and their adherents. The Hawaiian Archipelago A beautiful tree having firm, fine-grained, white wood; used in making sacred inclosures and for other tabu purposes. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula And while the cornet is allowed by many, the violin is still tabu absolutely in certain districts. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Kings were not likely to give these up, and where they retained them priests would be content with seeing that the tabus and ritual and the slaying of the mock king were duly observed. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The Maoris had the tabu; and had it on a Polynesian scale of comprehensiveness and elaboration. Following the Equator, Part 4 This was the tabu—an agent endowed with a mysterious and stupendous power, an agent not found among the properties of any European monarch, a tool of inestimable value in the business. Following the Equator — Part 1 The house was about twenty-five feet in length, and stood in a reed and bamboo enclosure, across the entrance to which a bundle of dried grass was suspended to show that it was strictly ‘tabu.’ The Golden Bough The child also is hedged about with tabus. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo But the boar was tabu to certain persons, e.g. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The first rules the lowest savage peoples began to make were the sex tabus and food tabus. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) By the tabu, all these were sacred to the men; the women spent their lives longing for them and wondering what they might taste like; and they died without finding out. Following the Equator — Part 1 Sure, I know the accepted explanation, but I think we should learn why it works and how to break a tabu. The Lani People The tabus of the latter class are observed by the husband even more strictly, if possible, than by the wife. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The ill-luck supposed to follow the killing of certain animals may also be reminiscent of totemic tabus. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Their efforts are gravely hindered by two obstacles; one the professional tradition known as "the medical secret," the other the universal prevalence of that primordial superstition—the sex tabu. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) The tabu was the most ingenious and effective of all the inventions that has ever been devised for keeping a people's privileges satisfactorily restricted. Following the Equator — Part 1 Perhaps it was because she had violated the tabu about the God-Egg so often that ordinary superstition had no effect upon her. The Lani People They learn also the prohibitions and tabus by being constantly checked; a sharp word generally suffices to secure obedience. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo These are descent from animals, animal tabus, the sacramental eating of an animal, and exogamy. The Religion of the Ancient Celts Stella Allendale’s great-grandfather had been a Captain Blunt, an English adventurer who took service under Kamehameha I and was made a tabu chief himself. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii The Navaho is superstitious about several things: If any one dies in the hogan it is henceforth "tabu." The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it I tried to find out once, but all I could discover was that it was tabu. The Lani People Childhood and Youth of a Kayan From the time that the parents of a Kayan become aware of his existence they faithfully observe, without intermission until his appearance in the world, certain tabus. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The other tales may also be reminiscent of a clan totem tabu, later centred in a mythic hero. The Religion of the Ancient Celts He breaks the tabu; he eats the forbidden apple; he sins against the tribe, and is cast out. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Another tabu of the Navaho is his fear of seeing his mother-in-law. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it But we stopped when we found the age that was being indoctrinated with Lani tabus. The Lani People In a similar way the breach of other tabus, such as the entering of a room which is LALI, may be rendered innocuous. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The people who remain at home are not expected to observe these tabus; they may go to the farms, but must keep quiet, and undertake nothing outside the ordinary routine. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo An aura of emotion surrounded everything—of terror, of tabu, of fascination, of desire. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning From the moment of leaving the village the men of the war-party must observe many tabus until their return home. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo |
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