Did they mean that what is food for one is poison for another or simply that to break tabu spells death whether it is body food tabu or mind food tabu?
And that tabu was on the apples of Iduna, the fruit of the tree of knowledge between good and evil, which springs from the fountains of memory and reflection,—the golden apples of strife which some say give immortality, some death.
That was one of Conaire's tabus, and that plunder should be taken in Ireland during his reign was another tabu of his.
Then Conaire with his people entered the Hostel, and each took his seat within, bothtabu and non-tabu.
Tis a tabu of mine," says Conaire, "to receive the company of one woman after sunset.
It was a tabu of mine for those Three to go before me--the three Reds to the house of Red.
There were other resemblances between Maori tabuand Hindoo caste-custom.
The tabu was the most ingenious and effective of all the inventions that has ever been devised for keeping a people's privileges satisfactorily restricted.
It is a significant fact that the smaller rodents, especially the long-tail nocturnal squirrel, are excluded from the Seri menu by a rigidly observed tabu of undiscovered meaning.
His kind did have certain ultimate standards to which they adhered rigidly, and one of those was the curious tabu against mixed games, strictly enforced even though it kept them from tapping a vast source of potential players.
There had also never been a recorded instance of humans and extraterrestrials exchanging identities, but whether that was the result of tabu or biological impossibility, no one could tell.
Sometimes she superfluously imposes a tabu upon her husband, which he breaks and she disappears (Melusine variant; compare Lohengrin).
The tabu was a most ingenious and useful device; and when you hear of the uses to which it was put, and of its effectiveness, you feel surprised that it was not found elsewhere as an appurtenance of the feudal machinery.
Some informants say that the operation must be repeated four times upon as many snakes and that a certain food tabu must also be observed.
THE SNAKE MAN Two hunters, both for some reason under a tabu against the meat of a squirrel or turkey, had gone into the woods together.
His companion warned him that if he broke the tabu and ate squirrel meat he would become a snake, but the other laughed and said that was only a conjurer's story.
There were certain tabudays when no canoe could be launched, no fire lighted, and when no sound could be made, on pain of death.
Thus, it was tabu for men and women to eat together, or even to have their food cooked in the same oven.
Their first important act was the abolition of the tabu system, which took place at a great feast held at Kailua in October, 1819, at which men and women ate together in public for the first time.
The tabu system covered the entire daily life of the people with a vast network of minute regulations and penalties.
Notwithstanding our efforts to have them relinquish the idea of remaining, they moved some of their effects on shore, among them were a bull and cow, without permission, and took possession of an uninhabited hut near the tabu ground.
They brought the females on shore and commenced building a house on the tabu ground; the king watching every movement, forbid their proceeding, and asked them by what authority they entered upon his consecrated grounds.
The next morning those that were brought alive, having in one or two instances returned to consciousness, were brought forward to the tabu ground, and fastened with the face towards a stake, driven in the ground for the purpose.
The tabu ground is an enclosure of about an acre, set about with posts which are wound around with the inner or fine bark of a tree called Tappa, which is thin and white.
The king significantly said the Lord had nothing to do with the tabu ground, and again forbid their building there.
They soon withdrew a short distance, into the tabu ground, and were a long time in consultation, leaving us standing by ourselves on the beach.
The tabu would have been communicated by the contact of his hands, and so would have made anything touched by him unfit for human food.
The higher schools and the learned professions were until recently tabu to the women.
It is true, this conduct may have been due, at least in part, to an excessive sanctity or tabu attaching to the chief's person.
The tabu in the case of the priestly class goes farther and adds a refinement in the form of an injunction against their seeking worldly gain even where it may be had without debasing application to industry.
This tabu on labour has a further consequence in the industrial differentiation of classes.
The characteristic feature of all such seasons of devout vicarious leisure is a more or less rigid tabu on all activity that is of human use.
Her tabu rank is the same as the tabu rank of this fine young chief.
Certain days were tabuto Lono--or Rongo, as he was known in other island groups of the Pacific Ocean.
This was a tabu drum place, and not a temple of safety.
This wind was Kana-ula, and had been sent by Moho, who was very angry at the girl for violating the tabu of the gods and eating the things set apart for the gods.
Down to the seashore Hiku went with his retainers, down to the tabu place of the beautiful Kewalu.
Olopana asked Ke-au-nini, "Which of the tabuhouses do you wish to take as your residence?
It was always sufficient cause for death if a common man allowed his shadow to fall upon any tabu chief, i.
They were taken inside a tabu temple and brought up.
Tabu is lifted from My bird-catching place for food.
Thenceforward the concubitant and tabu relationships occur in alternate generations.
It must not be understood, however, that in these remote occurrences the taburelationships are always strongly tabu, or that the concubitant relationships always entail marriage.
No sooner had a missionary gained a foothold in a chief village than thetabu was doomed, and on the tabu depended half the people's reverence for rank.
But she, being of a different generation, is tabu to him; hence he must avoid her absolutely, lest he be tempted by her charms to break through the law of the system.
In the tabu it prescribed what he should eat and drink, how he should address his betters, whom he should marry, and where his body should be laid.
It was tabu for a messenger to go direct to the army lest he should dispirit the troops.
These are tabu to one another, being, as I have said, regarded as being as closely consanguineous as actual brothers and sisters.
There was some quality in human flesh that made it tabu to touch it with the fingers or the lips.
He never consulted the Roko Tui Mbau in temporal affairs, and he enjoyed tabu privileges little inferior to those paid to his spiritual suzerain.
It istabu for an inferior to decline food offered to him by a chief.
His assistant in the Government, Kaahumanu, the Queen dowager, was proud and high-spirited, and hated the tabu because it restricted the privileges of her sex and degraded all women very nearly to the level of brutes.
Then conviction came like a revelation--the superstitions of a hundred generations passed from before the people like a cloud, and a shout went up, "the tabu is broken!
On their spears were the great sharks' teeth, and their tabu staffs were crowned with kapa black or white.
It should be remarked that this frequent carrying of a sick chief from one house to another resulted from the tabu system, then in force.
The tabu was sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary; and the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred to the purpose for which it was set apart.
In the above case the victims selected under the tabu would be sacred to the sacrifice] in which destruction impended, was past.
No hand was lifted to avert his fate, for he was tabu to the gods.
Pomaré ate the tabu turtle of the temple, and a Christian nucleus was formed, headed by the sovereign.
We have not killed you, and our first man and woman respected all tabu trees.
It was tabu to Tahitians, harmless, and a voracious eater of insects.
In the olden days the kings and chiefs would have made it tabu to themselves.
Bakahenzie, compelled to avoid any delay before consolidating his position, instantly shut up Mungongo in the same web by declaring him the Keeper of the Sacred Fires and so disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft.
Not in spite of, but because of, this firm faith Bakahenzie took more precautions than ever before to surround the captured god with the toughest fibres of the tabu to keep him in isolation.
Between the conqueror and the subjected tribe was a wall denser than any steel; the same wall of tabu of the craft that Birnier was finding so difficult to penetrate.
Although Zalu Zako desired to escape the yoke, his protest was enfeebled by the sense of fatality, and had been utterly squashed by the promise of Marufa, at Birnier’s suggestion, that the sex tabu would be lifted from the godhead.
I bade the One who is tabu to bring them that he might be bewitched to her girdle.
And Birnier did comprehend; realised the small hell in zu Pfeiffer as a higher developedtabu did a childish tabu unto death.
The netting of the tabuhad been tangled by the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the unprecedented act of the overthrow of the idol.
The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death at the third blooming of the moon, but from that very instant the tabu came into force; for being thus accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred name, she was deemed unholy.
The tabu generally extends to salt or lye, hot food and women, while in rheumatism some doctors forbid the patient to eat the foot or leg of any animal, the reason given being that the limbs are generally the seat of the disease.
In this case no tabu is specified beyond the fact that both doctor and patient must be fasting.
The same idea is carried out in the tabu which generally accompanies the treatment.
The only exceptions, so far as my evidence goes, is in the transitional country north of Hall Sound, and a few carvings of crocodiles in certain tabu houses or dubus.
The democratic Papuans and Melanesians have no hereditary chieftainship, and the power of tabu is much more limited than in Polynesia.
A person declared under a Tabu was inviolable; a piece of land under a Tabu must not be trodden by any one; nor must a species of animal so declared, be injured or shot until the Tabu was again taken off.
Tameamea declared these animals under a Tabu for ten years, which allowed time for so large an increase, that they now run wild in the forests.
The Tabuwas always most scrupulously regarded, after this, whenever employed.
A few days after this article was read, the scholars observed one morning a flower stuck up in a conspicuous place against the wall, with the word TABU in large characters above it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tabu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
