Propitiatory Rocks

A number of natural, large rocks are connected with myth and tradition. Some are connected with historical events and though pointed out, have no special significance beyond illustrating how the imagination is given full play in associating natural physical features with historical characters. Thus the number of stone seats, kava bowls, and other-impossible stone artifacts associated with the name of Sina and found throughout the various islands serve to cement the historical association of various ancestors with certain districts and visitors are always taken to see them. They form part of the sights of the districts. By this means also various myths common to Polynesia are localized by various branches of the Polynesians in their own islands.