Legends of Maui, a Demi-God of Polynesia, and of His Mother Hina (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Drake Westervelt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330116151 ISBN 13 : 9781330116159

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Legends of Maui, a Demi-God of Polynesia, and of His Mother Hina offers a sweeping look at one of the Pacific’s richest myth cycles.

This nonfiction collection gathers Maui’s many tales from across Polynesia, tracing how similar legends travel and adapt from Hawaii to New Zealand and beyond. With scholarly notes and a foreword by S. Percy Smith, the book places these stories in a cultural and historical context, highlighting their enduring connections to people, place, and tradition.

• Learn how Maui’s feats—such as lifting the heavens, fishing up islands, and shaping life—are told in different island traditions.
• See how legends reflect shared views of heroes, birth, and the power of clever, practical invention.
• Discover the ways chiefs, priests, and communities preserved memory through myths that travel over ocean distances.
• Explore the broader questions of origin, transmission, and the possible Hindu and Indian influences noted in the legends.

Ideal for readers of mythology and folklore, and for anyone curious about Polynesian culture and its storytelling heritage.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Biographie de l'auteur

William Drake Westervelt (December 26, 1849 – March 9, 1939) was the author of several books and magazines on Hawaiian history and legends. He was born in Oberlin, Ohio and graduated from Oberlin College in 1871 with a B.A. degree, and from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1874 with a B.D. degree. Pastor of churches in Cleveland, Ohio and Colorado, he settled in Hawaii in 1899, marrying a missionary descendant, Caroline Dickinson Castle. After the Hawaiian Historical Society was re-formed, he served as the Corresponding Secretary starting in 1908. He would later serve as treasurer and president. His interest in Hawaiian mythology was an avocation that led to numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many reprinted in his several collections. He is noted as one of Hawaii's foremost authorities on island folklore in the English language. His anthologies of Hawaiian myths, legends and folk tales are considered among the best of the English versions of a Hawaiian view of the sacred and profane. Oberlin College bestowed an honorary Doctor of Divinity on Westervelt in 1926. He died at his Waikiki home in March 1939.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330116151
• ISBN 13: 9781330116159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
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