ABSTRACT
In New Zealand nearly all the Mission churches have made use of the Maori Sacred Life-Symbols for interior decoration, and sometimes for use on the barge boards, etc. The gourds of the Brown Maori all over the world should be compared as to artificially formed shapes and sacred decorative designs. To the Maori nobility the Sacred Heart signifies the combination of the male and female life-symbols, and the combination can be traced in many decorations. The Greek key-pattern is based on the same symbols, and so are the temple decorations of the Maya; in Malta the Swastika appears as the so-called Maltese cross. One way in which the Sacred Symbols were revealed and yet concealed was by means of the arabesque. The Easter Island statues and the plans, on which they are laid out, are fully explained in the Sacred Legends of the New Zealand Maori.
