Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology torrent

Author(s): Robert D. Craig
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Date: 1989
Format: pdf
Language: English
ISBN10: 0313258902
Pages: 462
Quality: Good

In this first reference guide to the mythology of these \"Vikings of the Pacific,\" Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction set the subject in its geographic, historical, anthropological, and linguistic contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the origin of the Polynesians as a distinct people and tracing their voyages and settlements from Indonesia to Malaysia, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, the various islands of eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, and also to Easter Island, New Zealand, and beyond.