Sanitary instructions for Hawaiians : in the English and Hawaiian languages / by Walter Murray Gibson.

  • Gibson, Walter Murray.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Sanitary instructions for Hawaiians : in the English and Hawaiian languages / by Walter Murray Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    HYGEIA. The ancient Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses; and among them was Hygeia, a female deity, supposed to preside over the health of mankind. This was a beautiful and noble idea, and all the more so, because the most of the gods and goddesses of the Greeks were gen- erally endowed with attributes that were mis- chievous to mankind. This was the character of all the gods of Ha- waii, and especially of the Hawaiian goddess Pele. She was believed to be a burning fury, that delighted in the destruction of men, if they did not humbly propitiate her by votive offerings. Ancient Hawaiians had no beneficent deities. Nor had any other pagan people any other than evil working deities, except the wise and noble Greeks. However, they even did not put in the front rank of honor their most beneficent deity, but gave a preference to Jupiter, Neptune and Mars, those gods v*ho thundered in the sky, or raised storms for the destruction of ships, or ex- cited wars for the slaughter of men. But now, Mars, and Moloch, and Pele, and all the mischief making and destroying gods and goddesses have utterly passed away from the