Tales Of Polynesia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781797223018

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Tales of Polynesia by Anonim Pdf

Explore the enchanting world of Polynesian folklore in this beautifully illustrated collection of traditional stories. A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits. The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. In these traditional tales, the borders blur between life and death, reality and magic, and land and sea. This volume includes legends from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa, showcasing the rich narrative tradition of the Polynesian islands. You'll encounter awe-inspiring warriors, tricky magicians, and fearsome creatures of the deep. Each tale is paired with evocative contemporary art, creating a special illustrated edition to read, share, and treasure across generations. POPULAR SERIES: The Tales series gives new life to traditional stories. Celebrating the richness of folklore around the world, and featuring the work of beloved contemporary illustrators, these books are treasured by adults and teens alike. TALES THAT TRANSPORT YOU: These folktales are deeply rooted in the landscape of the Polynesian islands. Dramatic mountain peaks, secluded valleys, and mesmerizing ocean vistas offer striking settings for timeless stories of magic. GORGEOUS SPECIAL EDITION: With a mesmerizing full-page illustration for each story, as well as creamy paper, a ribbon page marker, and a handsome hardcover design, this edition is perfect for gifting and display. Perfect for: Adult, young adult, and teen fans of fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, and history Readers with Polynesian heritage or interested in Polynesian culture Illustration and art lovers Collectors of illustrated classics and such popular mythology books as D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths or Bulfinch's Mythology Fans of Moana Fans of the illustrator Yiling Changues

Author : Johannes Carl Andersen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486285825

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Myths and Legends of the Polynesians by Johannes Carl Andersen Pdf

Authoritative recounting of myths and legends — gods and creation, nature and supernatural, love and war, revenge, more — plus a lively commentary on Polynesian life and culture. 77 illustrations.

Author : Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1573061247

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Micronesian Legends by Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood Pdf

Retells sixty-eight traditional legends of the islands, including creation myths and tales of duhendes, dancing trickster elves of the jungle.

Author : Robert C. Suggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : LCCN:60014723

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The Island Civilizations of Polynesia by Robert C. Suggs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Food
ISBN : 0732906636

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Polynesia by Anonim Pdf

Four Polynesian folk tales for primary school level students.

Author : Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 157306078X

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Pacific Island Legends by Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood Pdf

Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.

Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Flame Tree 451
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1839642246

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Polynesian Island Myths by J.K. Jackson Pdf

• Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Spotlight on submission process for the new stories, promoted online through blogs and social media • Monthly newsletter to increase mailing list of genre special interest readers. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influences. The Polynesian triangle covers Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand and the many isles in between. The legends of the region are based on the creation of land, fish, sea, valleys and the volcanic outcrops scattered across the long stretches of the Pacific. The beautiful myths of the ancient Polynesians are brought together in this new collection: from Hawaii the Rainbow Maiden of Manoa undulates through the valleys and rainbow mists; the creator Maui releases his fish hooks into the sea to raise the islands to the surface; and tales of Pele the Fire Goddess, who hurls fountains of molten rock into the air creating vast flows of lava. From the Maori of New Zealand come the strange fruit of darkness, the tales of Tiki and the Great Mother from whom the gods descend, then humankind. And from Polynesia, more legends of Maui creating the ancestors, and Hina the moon goddess. Such myth-making joy creates a rare unity in diversity as the ancient Polynesians strove to explain the beauty and darkness of their lush ocean worlds, now offered in this new selection of myths and legends. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Author : Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1573060844

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Pacific Island Legends by Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood Pdf

A collection of forty-three traditional and historical stories from the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia.

Author : W. D. Westervelt
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473376946

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Legends of Maui - A Demi-God of Polynesia and of His Mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt Pdf

This book contains an account of the legends of Maui, a demi-god whose story probably contains a larger number of unique and ancient myths than that of any other legendary character in the mythology of any nation. There are three centres of this story: new Zealand in the south, Hawaii in the north, and the Tahitian group in the east; and what makes this ancient legend so interesting is that it forms one of the strongest links in the mythological chain of evidence which binds the scattered inhabitants of the pacific into one nation, existing intact or in part in Anietyum, Bowditch, Efate, Fiji, Fotuna, Gilbert, Hawaii, Hervey, Huahine, Mangaia, Manihiki, Marquesas, Marshal, to name but a few. This wonderful text has been selected because of its timeless cultural value and will appeal to anyone interested in exotic mythology. This book is republished now with a new introductory biography of the author.

Author : Johannes Carl Andersen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000005867317

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Myths & Legends of the Polynesians by Johannes Carl Andersen Pdf

Author : Erick Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:39000005914747

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The Magic Banana by Erick Berry Pdf

Twelve folk tales from Polynesia about birds, fish, the sea, the little people called Menehunes, Maui the demi-god, and Polynesian men and women. Includes brief notes on the origins of the tales.

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062060891

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Sea People by Christina Thompson Pdf

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.

Author : Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood
Publisher : Bess PressInc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1573061034

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Teacher's Guide, Pacific Island Legends by Bo Flood,Beret E. Strong,William Flood Pdf

Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people.

Author : Bacil F. Kirtley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824884079

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A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives by Bacil F. Kirtley Pdf

This reference work analyzes and classifies the story themes of Polynesian myths, tales, and legends according to an internationally employed system developed by Stith Thompson in his Motif Index of Folk-Literature ( 1955-1958). Thousands of tales, including those from almost all of the major original collections from the Polynesian area, have been examined and their thematic contents cataloged in this work. In his introduction, the author explains the concept of the motif as a basis for cataloging. He quotes from Professor Thompson's definition of a motif: “the smallest element in a tale having the power to persist in tradition,” for example, gods, marvelous creatures, magic objects, and certain kinds of incidents. The author believes “the function of an index of motifs is to cite bibliographical sources of narratives containing these viable (often irreducible) story elements, and thus to provide the investigator of specific story ideas with comparative Information.” The present work is an attempt to survey thoroughly the totality of Polynesian oral tradition and to indicate the distribution and relationships of narrative materials. Not since the publication of Roland B. Dixon's work on Oceanic mythology in 1916 has this been attempted. This index will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone doing research in Oceanic ethnology and folklore.

Author : Antony Alpers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Legends
ISBN : UCSC:32106015541250

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The World of the Polynesians by Antony Alpers Pdf

First ed. published Christchurch, N.Z. Whitcombe & Tombs, 1970 under title Legends of the South Seas, the world of the Polynesians seen through their myths and legends, poetry and art.