Crossword-Solution: ATUAS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Tongans had no doubt that these Atuas daily and hourly influenced their destinies and could, conversely, be influenced by them.

Moreover, the Atuas were believed to visit particular persons,--their own priests in the case of the higher gods, but apparently anybody in that of the lower,--and to inspire them by a process which was conceived to involve the actual residence of the god, for the time being, in the person inspired, who was thus rendered capable of prophesying (vol.

Amongst the Tongans, the sacrifices were regarded as gifts of food and drink offered to the divine Atuas, just as the articles deposited by the graves of the recently dead were meant as food for Atuas of lower rank.

The New Zealanders said the souls of the Atuas, the nobles, were immortal, but the Cookees perished entirely.

Speaking of the Society Islanders, they say that "they regard the spirits of their ancestors, male and female, as exalted into _eatooas_ [_atuas_, deities], and their favour to be secured by prayers and offerings.