It is said that the gods made bodies and souls. They gave people voices to worship them with song, hands to build temples to them, and they gave desire so that people might mate and worship in that way (II: 175)
The deceased at a funeral is commemorated by drinking rum in memory of his life (IV: 520)
Summer Islanders revere the elderly and celebrate the dead (IV: 520)
The Summer Islanders answer death with life, and a crew will mourn the death of one of their own with an orgy (IV: 525)