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Author : Eric Alfred Knudsen
Publisher : Mutual Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566471190
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Teller of Hawaiian Tales written by Eric Alfred Knudsen and published by Mutual Publishing. This book was released on 1946 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric a (Eric Alfred) 1872- Knudsen
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015299368
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Teller of Hawaiian Tales written by Eric a (Eric Alfred) 1872- Knudsen and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Vivian L. Thompson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824810764
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions written by Vivian L. Thompson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in Old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible, supernatural kupua roamed the islands, challenging kings and chiefs, tricking men, women, and boys. The Hawaiian people would tell and retell tales of kupua exploits, and of the men who challenged them. Some of the tall tales included in this volume are of shape-shifters like Shark Man of Ewa, who could change from man to shark, from shark to rat, from rat to a bunch of bananas. Others are of kupua with extraordinary powers like Kana, who could stretch himself as tall as a palm tree, as slender as a bamboo, as thin as a morning glory vine, as fine as a spider web. And there are men with rare and special weapons, such as Ka-ui-lani, whose talking spear could pick the winner of a cock fight before the birds were even in the ring. As in all tales told by word of mouth, change and exaggeration crept in, and perhaps this is how the kupua tale developed - through exaggeration. That they have survived, and continue to entertain, in present-day written form, is an indication of their universal appeal.
Author : Vivian L. Thompson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824813024
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Legends of Tricksters and Riddlers written by Vivian L. Thompson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to some of the oldest and least-known of Hawaii's legends, man became a trickster to survive, and later became a riddler to win a place for himself in society. Vivian Thompson's tales, written for youngsters, are based on some of the earliest recorded versions of these legends; they instruct and delight readers of today as the oral traditions of old captivated their audiences. The first voyagers to Hawaii were filled with terror of the unknown terrain inhabited by evil spirits. Fearless fellows, tricksters - those who could match wits not only against nature, spirits, and monsters but also against chiefs and kings who held the power of life and death - became the heroes of the common people. As trickster legends emerged from primitive Hawaii, so riddler legends grew from later Hawaii, where mental as well as physical skills were admired.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Folk Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of a collection of Hawaiian folk tales by various authors and compiled by Thomas G. Thrum. In a note included about this book, Thrum writes, "In response to repeated requests, the compiler now presents in book form the series of legends that have been made a feature of 'The Hawaiian Annual' for a number of years past."
Author : William Hyde Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Legends written by William Hyde Rice and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Rice's theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook, there were bards and storytellers, either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs...these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical incidents or natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories, which were handed down from generation to generation." Hawaiian Legends (1923) is a collection of Hawaiian myth and folklore complied and translated by William Hyde Rice. Having been born and spent his entire life immersed in the culture of Hawaii, Rice spent many years collecting and translating the stories he had heard in his childhood, gathered through books and sought out from elders. Determined to capture the authentic spirit of the Hawaiians, his cumulative volume is a celebration of the days of old Hawaii and the stories that have lived through the ages. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Hyde Rice's Hawaiian Legends is a classic of Hawaiian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : William Drake Westervelt
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849659348
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Legends Of Old Honolulu written by William Drake Westervelt and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. They tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspirations; in short, they give us a twilight history of the race. As the geologist finds in the rocks the dim records of the beginnings of life on our planet, the first foreshadowings of the mighty forests that have since covered the lands, and of the countless forms of animal life that have at last culminated in Man, so does the historian discover in the legends of a people the dim traces of its origin and development till it comes out in the stronger light of the later day. So it is with the legends of the Hawaiians, or of the Polynesian race. We see them, very indistinctly, starting from some distant home in Asia, finally reaching the Pacific Ocean, and then gradually spreading abroad over its islands till they dominate a large portion of its extent. In bringing together this collection of Hawaiian legends, the author of this little book has conferred a great favor upon all those residents of Hawaii and of those visitors to its shores who may take an interest in its original inhabitants, once an exceedingly numerous people, but now a scattering remnant only. To that native race this little book will be at once a joy and a sorrow; to the heart of the haole, who has lived among them, known them intimately for thirty years or more (as has the writer of this Foreword), and learned to love them, this collection of the legends of old Honolulu brings a warm "Aloha!
Author : Thomas George Thrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book More Hawaiian Folk Tales written by Thomas George Thrum and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1923 edition of a collection of Hawaiian folk tales compiled by Thomas G. Thrum. The forward in this book is a new addition from earlier versions. Thrum explains that this volume is the fourth edition and has a number of studies and special translations that are not available in other editions (1907, 1912, 1917, 1921, 1978, and 1998).
Author : Vivian L. Thompson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824811716
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea, and Sky written by Vivian L. Thompson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-05-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tales described how the gods created the earth and its life, how the stars were created, and why the days are longer in summer. Other stories recounted the pranks of Kamapuaa the Pig-Man, the origin of the tapa tree, the death of the monster reptile mo-o, and the home of the volcano goddess, Pele. From this rich body of mythology, author Vivian Thompson has drawn twelve myths. She retells them with the true flavor and simplicity of the storytellers of long ago. Thompson's words are accompanied by the illustrations of Hawaii artist Marilyn Kahalewai, who has captured the delight and drama of the ancient tales.
Author : Malia Collins
Publisher : Beachhouse Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781949000030
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pele and Poli'ahu written by Malia Collins and published by Beachhouse Pub.. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the classic Hawaiian legend when Pele ventured off her fiery mountaintop to make mischief and challenge Poliahu to a sled race down the snowy slopes of Mauna Kea. It is the story about the power of nature, the power of wills, the power of skill, and an explanation of why the Big Island, to this day, is an island of contrasts.
Author : David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii written by David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6059654185
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Folk Tales written by Various and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volume is unique in that it relates to a period about which American readers have known little." —Boston Transcript. "With numerous illustrations from photographs" —A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers. In response to repeated requests, the compiler now presents in book form the series of legends that have been made a feature of "The Hawaiian Annual" for a number of years past. The series has been enriched by the addition of several tales, the famous shark legend having been furnished for this purpose from the papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society. The collection embraces contributions by the Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson, J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, W. M. Gibson, Dr. C. M. Hyde, and others, all of whom are recognized authorities. The early attempts of Dibble and Pogue to gather history from Hawaiians themselves have preserved to native and foreign readers much that would probably otherwise have been lost. To the late Judge Andrews we are indebted for a very full grammar and dictionary of the language, as also for a valuable manuscript collection of meles and antiquarian literature that passed to the custody of the Board of Education. In the first volume of Judge Fornander's elaborate work on "The Polynesian Race" he has given some old Hawaiian legends which closely resemble the Old Testament history. How shall we account for such coincidences? *** There were native historians in those days; the newspaper articles of S. M. Kamakau, the earlier writings of David Malo, and the later contributions of G. W. Pilipo and others are but samples of a wealth of material, most of which has been lost forever to the world. From time to time Prof. W. D. Alexander, as also C. J. Lyons, has furnished interesting extracts from these and other hakus. The Rev. A. O. Forbes devoted some time and thought to the collecting of island folk-lore: and King Kalakaua took some pains in this line also, as evidenced by his volume of "Legends and Myths of Hawaii," edited by R. M. Daggett, though there is much therein that is wholly foreign to ancient Hawaiian customs and thought. No one of late years had a better opportunity than Kalakaua toward collecting the meles, kaaos, and traditions of his race; and for purposes looking to this end there was established by law a Board of Genealogy, which had an existence of some four years, but nothing of permanent value resulted therefrom. Fornander's manuscript collection of meles, legends, and genealogies in the vernacular has fortunately become, by purchase, the property of the Hon. C. R. Bishop, which insures for posterity the result of one devoted scholar's efforts to rescue the ancient traditions that are gradually slipping away; for the haku meles (bards) of Hawaii are gone. This fact, as also the Hawaiian Historical Society's desire to aid and stimulate research into the history and traditions of this people, strengthens the hope that some one may yet arise to give us further insight into the legendary folk-lore of this interesting race. T. G. T. Honolulu, January 1
Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840712
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Mythology written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born. The Hawaiian gods were like great chiefs from far lands who visited among the people, entering their daily lives sometimes as humans or animals, sometimes taking residence in a stone or wooden idol. As years passed, the families of gods grew and included the trickster Maui, who snared the sun, and fiery Pele of the volcano. Ancient Hawaiians lived by the animistic philosophy that assigned living souls to animals, trees, stones, stars, and clouds, as well as to humans. Religion and mythology were interwoven in Hawaiian culture; and local legends and genealogies were preserved in song, chant, and narrative. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books, articles, and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology, and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology. With an introduction by Katherine Luomala.
Author : Shiho S. Nunes
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462922740
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Chinese Folktales written by Shiho S. Nunes and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and self-reliance. Chinese Folktales collects nineteen of these fantastic tales, some of them dating back to the third century BCE, and retells them in contemporary English for a modern audience. This updated edition--previously titled Chinese Fables--offers the same great stories in a smaller, easier to handle format at a lower price. Each of these stories offers a nugget of ancient folk wisdom and glimpses of traditional Chinese culture and lore. All of the tales express the foibles and wisdom of human experience with great humor and affection. Although the lessons are universal, the wit and flavor are uniquely Chinese. Beautifully illustrated by a master Chinese artist using a patchwork of ancient tones and textures, with a deft touch of humor, this book will give great joy to children and adults alike. Chinese children's stories include: The Practical Bride Stealing the Bell Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy Cooking the Duck Scaring the Tigers The Dragon Slayer The previously published edition, Chinese Fables, won: *The Aesop Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature* *The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Fables, Folklore & Fairytales* *The Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award*
Author : A. Grove Day
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824885007
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Legends in English written by A. Grove Day and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two centuries, a considerable number of Hawaiian legends have been translated into English. Although this material has been the subject of studies in anthropology, ethnology, and comparative mythology, no study has been made made of the translations and the translators themselves. Nor has a definitive bibliography of published translations been compiled. The purpose of this volume is to provide an extensive, annotated bibliography of both primary translations and secondary retellings in English, together with a historical and critical study of the more important translations.
Author : George Kahumoku (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Hawaiian Life written by George Kahumoku (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii written by David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
