A long-time Honolulu publisher collects traditional Hawaiian stories, some gathered from native tellers and some from earlier writers. The trickster Maui performs his famous feats, the volcano goddess Pele brings fire and flood, Hiku seeks his lost Kawelu in the underworld, and Lonopuha learns the art of healing, alongside legends that early missionaries compared with Old Testament history.
An important early record of Hawaiian oral tradition, for lovers of myth and Pacific history. Download the free EPUB.