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Краткое содержание: Гавайские народные сказки
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A boy snares the sun with coconut rope and a shark god's son hides a second mouth in the tales of Hawaii.
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Гавайские народные сказки in short
Hawaiian Folk Tales gathers the oral tradition of the islands. It opens with creation and flood chants, then moves through tricksters, Pele, journeys to the land of the dead, healers, giants, and heroes. It ends with the Menehune, love stories tied to valleys and cliffs, and the gods of the sea.
What Гавайские народные сказки is about
What would you do if your mother's cloth never dried because the days were too short? In Hawaiian Folk Tales, a young man named Maui twists coconut fiber into a cord and goes up a mountain to catch the sun. In another tale, a lover wears a rotten smell and swings down a hole in the sea to bring his dead sweetheart home.
Thomas G. Thrum gathered these tales in Honolulu after they ran for years in The Hawaiian Annual, dating his note January 1, 1907. He wrote with a sense of loss, because the bards who sang them were gone. Each tale is anchored to a real place on the islands.
Для кого. This book is for readers who love myths and legends, tales told around a fire, and the lore of islands and oceans. It suits anyone curious about Polynesian culture.
The 10 key ideas
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Old chants echo stories from other lands
The opening chapter, by the Reverend C. M. Hyde, asks a puzzling question. Why do some old Hawaiian legends resemble the history of the Old Testament? He builds his answer from the work of Judge Fornander, who gathered the chants of the islands.
In the creation chant, three gods named Kane, Ku, and Lono break apart the endless night and let light into space. They shape the first man from red earth and breathe into his nose, and he lives. A woman is made from his rib while he sleeps. Another legend tells of a flood, in which Nuu builds a great vessel and lands on Mauna Kea.
Fornander weighed two explanations, shipwrecked Spaniards or wandering Israelites, and found neither convincing. He thought Hebrew, Chaldean, and Polynesian peoples may all have drawn on a very old shared source. Hawaiian tradition carries its own deep memory of a shared human past.
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Maui outwits the sun and the fire keepers
Maui is the son of Hina, who makes kapa, the bark cloth of the islands.
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Pele brings the sea and the fire
The goddess Pele is linked with every volcanic event in Hawaiian lore.
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The living can visit the land of the dead
Hawaiian lore pictures the dead as living on in a world below, ruled by Milu.
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Healers and priests carry real power
The tale of Lonopuha explains where healing came from.
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Kana and Niheu fight for a stolen wife
The tale of Kapeepeekauila is set on the cliffs of Molokai.
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A sleeper's son becomes the hero of Oahu
The tale of Kalelealuaka begins with his father, Kaopele, born in Waipio without breath.
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The Menehune build in a single night
Thomas Thrum introduces the Menehune as the original brownies of Hawaii.
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Love and jealousy leave marks on the land
Several tales of love in the book end in grief, and each is tied to a place.
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Sea gods give fish and demand respect
The book ends with stories of the sea, which fed the islands and ruled their lives.
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What is Hawaiian Folk Tales about?
It is a collection of Hawaiian myths and legends gathered by Thomas G. Thrum. It includes creation chants, the trickster Maui, the goddess Pele, journeys to the land of the dead, the Menehune builders, love stories, and tales of sea gods and sharks.
Who is Maui in Hawaiian legend?
In this book, Maui is a clever son of Hina who snares the sun with a cord of coconut fiber so his mother's cloth can dry. Maui-mua, one of Maui and Hina's sons, wins fire from the alae, the mud hens who guard it.
Who are the Menehune?
The Menehune are a small, skilled people said to live in the hills of the islands. Legend credits them with building dams, canoes, and temples in a single night, humming as they work.
Are these stories true or invented?
They are traditional tales collected from several contributors, many previously published in The Hawaiian Annual and gathered into this volume in 1907. Some are tied to real places and customs, and tellers disagree about how literally to take them.
Is Hawaiian Folk Tales easy to read?
Yes, the tales are short and clear, with plenty of action, magic, and humor. Many chapters can be enjoyed separately, though Aiai's adventures continue the preceding Ku-ula legend and are best read after it.
Как сослаться на это издание
Hawaiian Folk Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/hawaiian-folk-tales.
Hawaiian folk tales. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hawaiian-folk-tales
Hawaiian Folk Tales. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hawaiian-folk-tales.
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