Auraka
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On the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Auraka is a burial cave - the 'last resting-place of the dead' (Gill 1876:202, 234).
References
- W.W. Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (H.S. King: London, 1876).
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