Nor is there wanting confirmative evidence of such an affinity between the peoples of the Old and the New Worlds as that supposed. Mr. Tylor, in his work on “Primitive Culture,” points out that the Roman game of _bucca-bucca_, referred to in a passage of Petronius, is still retained as the old nursery game, “Buck, buck, how many horns do I hold up?” The meaning of this formula is not given, but, from the fact that the witch’s devil of the middle ages was represented as a buck or goat, we can hardly doubt that the buck or bucca of the game referred to the evil spirit. The devil was, indeed, called by the Cornish Celts _bucka_ (Welsh _bwg_), a hobgoblin, a name which is evidently connected with the Russian _buka_, a sprite, and with the _Bog_ of Slavonic and other allied languages. We have, no doubt, the same word in the name of the Finnic sky-god _Ukko_. Of this again we seem to have traces, not only in the Kalmuck _Búrkhan_ and the Mantchoo _Ab-ka_, but also in the Hottentot _Teqoa_ (Kafir, _Tixo_), the Supreme God; and in the word _yakko_, demon, the name given to the aborigines of Ceylon by their Hindu conquerors. But the root of this word is met with again among the American tribes. The Hurons believe the sky to be an _oki_, or demon, this name being also that by which the natives of Virginia knew their chief god. The same word appears to enter into the name of the Algonquin god of the North Wind, _Kabibon-okka_, as also of the Muyscan Moon goddess, _Huyth-aca_. Whether the Algonquin Great Spirit, _Kitchi-Manitu_, has preserved the same word, is questionable; but it is noticeable that in the mythology of Kamtschatka the first man is called _Haetsh_, and he is the son of _Kutka_, the Creator, whose name, by the allowable change of _t_ for _k_, becomes almost the same as the Finnic _Ukko_. The word _oki_ may, moreover, be found, with merely the vowel change, among the Islanders of the Pacific. Thus the Polynesian fire-god is _Mahu-ika_, the last syllable of which is doubtless connected with _akua_, meaning, like the American _oki_, spirit, or demon. The same root is met with again in _Tiki_, the Rarotongan form of _Maui_, the divine ancestor of the New Zealanders, and the _Tii_ of the Society Islands; also in _Akea_, the name of the mythical first king of Hawaii. _Tiki_ is probably only another form of _Ta-ata_, with the change of _k_ for _t_ (as in _akua_ for _atua_); and it is remarkable that this name of the Polynesian First Man is really that of the mythical ancestor of the Adamites, reversed, however, and with the addition of the word _ata_ (_aka_), spirit, which we have shown to be connected with the name for God among so many independent races. Mr. Fornander identifies the Polynesian word _aitu_ or _iku_, spirit, with the name of the great “Kushite” king It or Ait, and he states that the idea of royalty or sovereignty attached to that word is observed in old Hawaiian tradition.—“The Polynesian Race,” 1878, vol. i., pp. 44, 54.