Talk:Hawaiian mythology
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There are so many ways in which Polynesian mythology deviates from Hawaiian, that it really needs a separate page. Many tales were not brought to the Islands, and many others have been created since that time. Modern Hawaiian mythology is as likely to include Japanese tales of Oni and the peach boy as it is to include native hawaiian myths, and this is just another reason to separate the two.
When I have time, I hope to flesh this page out greatly and include the other relevant entires in the actual description.
- Hmmm, well, I was the one who wrote the "variant" wording, and that's from extensive reading in various Polynesian mythologies. It was a lazy compromise; I probably should have specified what remained the same, what differed.
- When I see the words "Hawaiian mythology" I think of pre-contact Hawaiian mythology, as recorded by the earliest writers. If you're going to include post-contact Hawaiian and pidgin/local myths (Pele, obakes and the like) I think we should set up different sections and be very clear about when a version was collected and what community was telling it.
- Thanks for paying attention to this neglected page. I intended to do a lot, and got sidetracked. I'm grotesquely over-committed to too many Wikipedia articles. This page could do with some determined community effort. Zora 09:34, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)