(In Polynesian mythology, Hawaiki is the original homeland of all Polynesian people and in Māori culture, it is also the place where the soul of the deceased returns.) Ra'iātea, which in Tahitian ...
When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...
According to Tongan myths 'Ata, together with Eua, was the first island hauled up by the Maui brothers - the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology - from the bottom of the sea.
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President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate ...
In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...
Playground blends with dizzying erudition Polynesian mythology, coding slang, a brief history of phosphate mining, snatches of Rimbaud, shades of Shakespeare’s Tempest, an AI sermon, and a ...
It turns out, though, that Polynesian mythology and the House of Mouse go together very well indeed. Between Moana and Zootopia/Zootropolis, it’s been a banner year for Disney Animation.
On the 30th anniversary of 'Pulp Fiction,' 20 creatives including John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson break down the making ...