In "The Legends and Myths of Hawaii," an anthology compiled from a rich tradition of Hawaiian oral storytelling, readers are invited into a world where nature, spirituality, and history intertwine. This work captures the essence of Hawaiian culture through a collection of enchanting tales, exploring the creation of the islands, the exploits of demigods like Maui, and the deep connection between the land and its people. The literary style oscillates between lyrical prose and evocative poetr...

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“It would be nice to think that this comprehensive and thought provoking biography will do something to give Teasdale a permanent, if small, niche in the history of American poetry. She is a good poet, if not a great one—much better than her splashy contemporaries Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg. … Teasdale herself could not have wished for a better biographer than William Drake.”—Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review“William Drake’s biography of Sara Teasdale is ...

The legends of the Hawaiian Islands are as diverse as those of any country in the world. They are also entirely distinct in form and thought from the fairy-tales which excite the interest and wonder of the English and German children. The mythology of Hawaii follows the laws upon which all myths are constructed. The Islanders have developed some beautiful nature-myths. Certain phenomena have been observed and the imagination has fitted the story to the interesting object which has attracte...

The ancient Hawaiians were not inventive. They did not study new methods of house-building or farming. They did not seek new tools or new weapons. They could live comfortably as their ancestors lived. But they were imaginative and therefore told many a wonderful tale of gods and goblins and men. Some of these stories were centuries old, and were closely akin to legends told in Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and many other islands of the Pacific Ocean. Most of them were of course limited ...

Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous. The crack in the floor of the ocean upon which they are built extends from the large island Hawaii northwesterly about two thousand miles toward Japan. The islands for the first four hundred miles are large and mountainous, but as the chain is followed toward the end, the islands quickly become mere bluffs rising out of the sea, or low coral islands which have been built...

Four brothers, each bearing the name of Maui, belong to Hawaiian legend. They accomplished little as a family, except on special occasions when the youngest of the household awakened his brothers by some unexpected trick which drew them into unwonted action. The legends of Hawaii, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand and the Hervey group make this youngest Maui "the discoverer of fire" or "the ensnarer of the sun" or "the fisherman who pulls up islands" or "the man endowed with magic," or "Maui with...

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Excerpt from Legends of the Wailuku: As Told by Old Hawaiians and Done Into the English Tongue Fed from the great watershed of Hawaii far up the densely wooded flanks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea - often snow-capped in winter - the Wailuku River roars through the very center of Hilo, principal town of the Island of Hawaii.There are many vague stories as to why the Wailuku River was so named. In the Hawaiian tongue Wailuku me...

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