Original-language term required. In a manner akin to “amen,” the phrase “e dina” or “it is true” follows this word during healing chants prayed over a whale’s tooth and during the sevusevu ceremony. The concept of sau is sometimes conflated with this concept, whose etymology is linked to the words for “thunder” and “wind” in various languages. Robert H. Codrington’s controversial designation of this concept as a “substance” (15[1])led other anthropologists to conflate it with the (*) wakan and orenda of the Lakota and Iroquois. (10[1])This concept’s association with “chiefly power” is linked to kai tangata, (10[1])or the cannibalism of enemy warriors, which allowed Māori chieftains to accumulate more (10[1])of this concept. (10[4])For 10 points, taboos were enforced to protect what possibly supernatural force (10[1])intrinsic to all things in Polynesian religions? (10[3]) ■END■