archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers. Polynesians speak languages that...

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part of the Polynesian narrative. They are often associated with the legendary exploits of the demigod Māui. According to Māori narrative, Māui transformed...

Hawaiian narrative or mythology, tells stories of nature and life. It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian narrative, developing its own...

Mangarevan people. It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian narrative, developing its own unique character for several centuries before...

Moana Māui (mythology) Māui (Hawaiian mythology) Polynesian narrative Polynesian navigation Polynesians Austronesian peoples "Moana (2016)". Box Office...

religion Polynesian narrative Cook Islands narrative Hawaiian religion Mangarevan narrative Māori religion Niuean narrative Rapa Nui narrative Samoan narrative...

Pulotu is the resting place of those passed on in the Polynesian narrative of Tonga and Samoa, the world of darkness "lalo fonua" (as opposed to the human...

Tamapo'uli'alamafoa Tangaloa Taufa Tu'itatui ʻAta Limu Culture of Tonga Polynesian narrative Māhina, 'Okusitino. (1992) The Tongan Traditional History Tala-Ē-Fonua:...

animals of the sea. Hina is a divine figure common throughout the Polynesian narrative, with prominent variants also found in Māori mythology, Samoan mythology...

There was widespread belief in ghosts in Polynesian culture, some of which persists today. After death, a person's ghost would normally travel to the sky...

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic...

incorporates elements of the Māui from Māori mythology and other Polynesian narratives. Maui was also the subject of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's song "Maui...

The Polynesian imperial pigeon or Society Islands pigeon (Ducula aurorae) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia...

In the Polynesian narrative of the Tuamotus archipelago in the South Pacific, Puna is the king of Hiti-marama or of Vavaʻu, depending on the story. In...

Māui or Maui is the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity (Demigod)...

included but often includes only the seven chicks. The Motif Index of Polynesian Narratives locates stories about the genesis of the Pleiades in New Zealand...

indices and indexing. Kirtley, Bacil F. A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1971. Accessed September...

performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known...

house (non-traditional Samoan house). The word is a cognate in other Polynesian languages and has gained widespread use throughout much of western Polynesia...

Hinduism, Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, the Mesopotamian flood stories, and the Cheyenne flood story. One example...

of expression prominent in Māori and Polynesian oral literature are genealogical recital, poetry, and narrative prose. Experts in these subjects were...

the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant...

kingdoms, and the much larger and more diverse oral mythology, mostly narratives sung by shamans or priestesses (mansin) in rituals invoking the gods and...

Lomilomi massage is a Polynesian method of kneading massage, but with overtones of the indigenous religious beliefs. The word lomilomi comes from the Hawaiian...

[ˈpaːkɛhaː]) is a Māori-language term for New Zealanders who have no Polynesian ethnic ancestry, primarily European New Zealanders. Pākehā is not a legal...

other possible contact scenarios—for example, Polynesian voyages to South America followed by Polynesian people's returning to Polynesia with South American...

historical correctness of the novel is high, although the narrative about the early Polynesian inhabitants is based more on folklore than anthropological...

America, and their future destiny.-And we know it." During the time many Polynesian people converted, the concept expanded to include them as well. The scriptural...

Island, for it has been noted that the jumping-off points for the early Polynesian colonization of Easter Island originally from Mangareva are more likely...