Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-13
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TOOK the hint with charming docilitv
IN the high godship.' he went on.
mechanically where he had STONED
ANA this here is the manner whereby
l. OBTAINED it. The Too-Keela-Keela
from time to time doth generally an
polnC any castaway stranger that comes
10 the Island to the post of Korong-
GnaI is TO say, an annual god or victim.
fof, as the year Goth renew itself at
each change of seasons, so do these
carrlbals in their gentilism believe and
holo mat the gods of the seasons to
VIII, the King of the Rain, the Queen
OF the Clouds, the Lord of Green
Leaves, the King of Fruits, and others
must needs be sleain and renewed at
the diverse solstices. Now, it so hap
Pened that l. on my arrival in the
Island, was appointed Korong, and
promoted to the post of King of the
Raln, having native woman assigned
me as Queen of the Clouds, with whom
l might keep company. This woman
being. after her kind, enamored of me.
ana anxious to escape her own fate, to
De slealn by my side, did betray to me
that secret, which tnev call in their
tongue the Great Taboo, and.which had
been betrayed to herself in turn bv a
native man, her former lover. For the
men are instructed in these things
In the mysteries when they COON of
age, but not the women.
And the Great Taboo is this: No
man can become Too-Kee la-KeeIa
unless he first sleay the man in whom
the high god is incarnate for the mo-
ment. But in order that he may sleay
him, he must also himself be full
Korong, only those persons who are
already gods being capable for the
highest post in their hierarchy; even
as with ourselves, none but he that is
a deacon may become a priest. and
none but he that is priest may be
made bishop. For this reason, then,
the Too-Keela-Keela prefers to adj
vance stranger to the post of Ko-
rong, seeing that such a person will
not have been initiated in the mystic
ries of the island, and therefore will
not be aware of those sundry steps
would inherit the godship.
Furthermore even a Korong can
only obtain the highest rank Of Too
KeelaKeela if he order all things &C
cording to the forms and ceremonies of
the Taboo perfect y. For these gen
tiles are very careful o. the levitical
parts of the polity of the Hebrews, the
fame OF whose tabernacle must sure
have gone through the ends of the
world, and the knowledge of whose
temple must have been yet more wide
dispersed by So ONION, his ships, when
they came into these parts to fetch
gold from Ophir. And the ceremony
is, that before any man may sleay the
'arthly tenement of Too-Ke ela-keela
and inherit his soul, which is in very
truth, as they do think. the god him
self, he must needs fight with the per-
son in whom Took eela-Kee a doth
then DIVE |, and for this reason: If
the holder Of the soul can defend him
self in fight, then it is clear that his
strength is not one whit de"ayed, nor
is his vigor feailing; norge has his as
sailant been able to take his soul from
him. But if the Korong in open fight
do sleay the person in whom Too
Keela-Keela dwells, he becometh at
is to say, in their tongue, the Lord OF
Lords, because he hath taken the life
of him that preceded him.
''Yet so intricate is the theology and
practice of these loathsOme sava9 es,
that not even now have | explained it
in full to you. O shipwrecked mariner,
tor your aid and protection. For
Korong. though it be part of his priv
ilege to contend, If he will, with Too
Keela-Keela for the high godship and
princedom of this isle, may only do so
at certain apr ointed times. places, and
seasons. Above all things, it is neces-
sary that he should first find out the
hiding place of the soul of Too-Keela-
Keela. For though the Too-Keela-
Keela for the time that is, be ami
mated by the god, yet, for greater Sc
curitv. he doth not keep his soul in
his own body, but, being above all
things the god of fruitfulness and gen
Grafton, who causes women to bear
children, and the plant called taro to
bring forth it's increase, he keepeth
his soul in the great sacred tree pc
hind his temple, which is thus the
Father of All Trees, and the ch1efest
abode of the great god Ioo-keela-
Keela.
"Nor does Tco-Keela-Keela's soul
abide equally in every part OF thls
aforesaid tree: but in certain bough
of il. tresem bling a mistletoe, which
hath yellow leaves, and, being broken
OF. groweth ever green and yellow
afresh: which is the central mystery
of all their Satanic religion. For IN
this very bough-easy to be discerned
bv the eve among the green leaves OF
the tree the bird paused and fal-
tered.
Muriel leaned forward in an agony
If excitement. Among the green
leaves of the tree" she went on
soothing HIM.
Her voice seemed to give the parrot
fresh impulse to speak. is con
4o;nod as it were" he continued,
feebly' the divine essence Itself, the
soul and life of Took eela-Keela., Who
ever, then, being full Korong, breaks
this off, hath thus possesse himself hdo OF
the very God in person. This now
over owe he must do by exceeding stealth:
70 for . Too-Keela-Keela, or rather t
man ma that bears that name, being BEN the the
guardian and de n aas down. os the BY s day
n ning os armed with spear and with e
the tree. watching iealously over the ;
a