Polynesian Legends are sometimes based on some of historical fact and have had their people or events embellished over the tellings and retellings.Because folklore has the capability to teach and to preserve the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of a people, suggestions are offered for using folklore to deepen children's understanding of Polynesian culture. Maori nature fables, along with error/punishment stories involving the woman or man on the moon, represent the instructive function. Tales and legends preserving cultural history are represented by a folk story reflecting values and customs of everyday life, accounts of legendary monsters reflecting cultural hopes and fears, and heroic tales of the popular demigod Maui. Specific stories are
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In this way, it is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledge across generations without a writing system, or in parallel to a writing system.” “for example, have used an oral tradition, in parallel to a writing system, to transmit their canonical scriptures, secular knowledge such as Sushruta Samhita, hymns and mythologies from one generation to the next.”“Only very rarely is folklore an heirloom passed along unchanged from parents to children over many generations. Folklore presents itself in a myriad of forms, all equally "original" and …show more content…
Using slings and javelins the skirmishers would cause panic and confusion as they disoriented the foe and allowed the rest of the Hawaiian warriors, the infantry and the Koa to close ranks, before unleashing their deadly combat skills.” My people value warriors and martial arts. The Hawaiian Koa warriors were the elite fighters of the islands, and their name originated from the tree they would use to fashion their weapons, the Koa tree. Not only would the tree provide the Koa their name, it would provide then as with all their battle tools, which were vast and diverse, suitable for all types of battlefield combat.”Haumea was the goddess of the childbirth in hawaiian mythology. The beliefs and practices of the indigenous people of the ethnogeographic group of pacific islands known as polynesia (from greek poly ‘many’ and nesoi
In this way, it is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledge across generations without a writing system, or in parallel to a writing system.” “for example, have used an oral tradition, in parallel to a writing system, to transmit their canonical scriptures, secular knowledge such as Sushruta Samhita, hymns and mythologies from one generation to the next.”“Only very rarely is folklore an heirloom passed along unchanged from parents to children over many generations. Folklore presents itself in a myriad of forms, all equally "original" and …show more content…
Using slings and javelins the skirmishers would cause panic and confusion as they disoriented the foe and allowed the rest of the Hawaiian warriors, the infantry and the Koa to close ranks, before unleashing their deadly combat skills.” My people value warriors and martial arts. The Hawaiian Koa warriors were the elite fighters of the islands, and their name originated from the tree they would use to fashion their weapons, the Koa tree. Not only would the tree provide the Koa their name, it would provide then as with all their battle tools, which were vast and diverse, suitable for all types of battlefield combat.”Haumea was the goddess of the childbirth in hawaiian mythology. The beliefs and practices of the indigenous people of the ethnogeographic group of pacific islands known as polynesia (from greek poly ‘many’ and nesoi