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TANAOA, DARKNESS; AND ATEA, LIGHT
Symbols of Matter and Spirit.
"The Marquesas Islanders have a legend which relates that in the
beginning there was no life, light, or sound in the world, that a
boundless night Po enveloped everything, over which Tanaoa, which
means 'darkness,' and Mutu-hei, which means 'silence,' ruled
supreme." - A. FORNANDER, Polynesian Race, Vol. I. p. 63.
At the inception of the solar universe there was chaos, depth,
formless matter, a tenuous concourse of atoms on the buddhic plane,
without order and consciousness. Matter unthrilled by Spirit, and
negation of life (Silence) pervaded space. There is indication in
the legends that Tanaoa sometimes denoted the Absolute, or potential
Being (darkness), the source of all.
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ABYSS
ADITI
ATEA
BUDDHIC PLANE
CHAOS
DARKNESS
DEEP
NIGHT
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TAAROA
TANGAROA
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