Polynesian mythology

body of myths in Polynesia

The Polynesian narrative or Polynesian mythology are the oral traditions of the Polynesian people.

Tiki Makiʻi Tauʻa Pepe (foreground) and Tiki Manuiotaa (background) from the meʻae Iʻipona on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands

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  • Beckwith, Martha, Hawaiian Mythology, Yale University Press, 1940, as re-issued in 1970, University of Hawaii Press
  • Buck, Sir Peter / Te Rangi Hīroa. Samoan Material Culture (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin ; 75). Honolulu, HI.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
  • Craig, Robert D. (1989). Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313258902.
  • Kirch, Patrick Vinton (14 November 2017). On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact (2 ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-29281-9. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctv1xxsng.
  • Malo, Davida; Emerson, Nathaniel Bright. Hawaiian antiquities: (Moolelo Hawaii). Hawaiian islands, Hawaiian gazette co., ltd., first published in English in 1898, available as Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 2, Second Edition, 1951, reprinted 1971.