Beautiful Birds of Hawaii Coloring Book

Beautiful Birds of Hawaii Coloring Book PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 1880188430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Fun and educational coloring books explore many beautiful and unique aspects of Hawai'i, including nature and culture.

Beautiful Birds of Hawaii Coloring Book

Beautiful Birds of Hawaii Coloring Book PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 1880188430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Fun and educational coloring books explore many beautiful and unique aspects of Hawai'i, including nature and culture.

Native Animals of Hawaii Coloring Book

Native Animals of Hawaii Coloring Book PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9780935848557
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
"A coloring book designed to familiarize you with the special animals of Hawaiʻi. All of the animals in this book are native to Hawaiʻi."--Page 4 of cover.

Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits

Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits PDF Author: Caren Loebel-Fried
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824845803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
Ancient Hawaiians lived in a world where all of nature was alive with the spirits of their ancestors. These aumakua have lived on through the ages as family guardians and take on many natural forms, thus linking many Hawaiians to the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of their island home. Individuals have a reciprocal relationship with their guardian spirits and offer worship and sacrifice in return for protection, inspiration, and guidance. Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits is told in words and pictures by award-winning artist Caren Loebel-Fried. The ancient legends are brought to life in sixty beautiful block prints, many vibrantly colored, and narrated in a lively "read-aloud" style, just as storytellers of old may have told them hundreds of years ago. Notes are included, reflecting the careful and extensive research done for this volume at the Bishop Museum Library and Archives in Honolulu and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A short section on the process of creating the block prints that illustrate the book is also included. The matching poster of "A Chance Meeting with the Iiwi" measures 22 x 28 inches.

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii PDF Author: David Kalakaua
Publisher: CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The legends following are of a group of sunny islands lying almost midway between Asia and America—a cluster of volcanic craters and coral-reefs, where the mountains are mantled in perpetual green and look down upon valleys of eternal spring; where for two-thirds of the year the trade-winds, sweeping down from the northwest coast of America and softened in their passage southward, dally with the stately cocoas and spreading palms, and mingle their cooling breath with the ever-living fragrance of fruit and blossom. Deeply embosomed in the silent wastes of the broad Pacific, with no habitable land nearer than two thousand miles, these islands greet the eye of the approaching mariner like a shadowy paradise, suddenly lifted from the blue depths by the malicious spirits of the world of waters, either to lure him to his destruction or disappear as he drops his anchor by the enchanted shore. The legends are of a little archipelago which was unknown to the civilized world until the closing years of the last century, and of a people who for many centuries exchanged no word or product with the rest of mankind; who had lost all knowledge, save the little retained by the dreamiest of legends, of the great world beyond their island home; whose origin may be traced to the ancient Cushites of Arabia, and whose legends repeat the story of the Jewish genesis; who developed and passed through an age of chivalry somewhat more barbarous, perhaps, but scarcely less affluent in deeds of enterprise and valor than that which characterized the contemporaneous races of the continental world; whose chiefs and priests claimed kinship with the gods, and step by step told back their lineage not only to him who rode the floods, but to the sinning pair whose re-entrance to the forfeited joys of Paradise was prevented by the large, white bird of Kane; who fought without shields and went to their death without fear; whose implements of war and industry were of wood, stone and bone, yet who erected great temples to their gods, and constructed barges and canoes which they navigated by the stars; who peopled the elements with spirits, reverenced the priesthood, bowed to the revelations of their prophets, and submitted without complaint to the oppressions of the tabu; who observed the rite of circumcision, built places of refuge after the manner of the ancient Israelites, and held sacred the religious legends of the priests and chronological meles of the chiefs. As the mind reverts to the past of the Hawaiian group, and dwells for a moment upon the shadowy history of its people, mighty forms rise and disappear—men of the stature of eight or nine feet, crowned with helmets of feathers and bearing spears thirty feet in length. Such men were Kiha, and Liloa, and Umi, and Lono, all kings of Hawaii during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and little less in bulk and none the less in valor was the great Kamehameha, who conquered and consolidated the several islands under one government, and died as late as 1819. And beside Umi, whose life was a romance, stands his humble friend Maukaleoleo, who, with his feet upon the ground, could reach the cocoanuts of standing trees; and back of him in the past is seen Kana, the son of Hina, whose height was measured by paces. To be continue in this ebook...

Stories of Old Hawaii

Stories of Old Hawaii PDF Author: Roy Alameida
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
Forty-five tales, stories and legends adapted from various sources about the natural history of Hawaii and the customs, crafts, arts and history of Polynesian Hawaiians. Includes one original story by the compiler.

Myths and Legends of Hawai'i Coloring Book

Myths and Legends of Hawai'i Coloring Book PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573062121
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Fifteen myths and legends of Hawai'i--stories about K ne, K, Lono, Maui, Pele, Hina, Kamapua'a. and other gods and demigods--accompanied by dynamic scenes to color. A glossary and a list of references add to the educational value of the text and illustrations.

The Water of Kāne

The Water of Kāne PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873360203
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A collection of legends of the various Hawaiian Islands.

Hina and the Sea of Stars

Hina and the Sea of Stars PDF Author:
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 1573061670
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Paint and collage creates rich, colorful, three-dimentional shapes and images in this depiction of the goddess Hina's movement from sea to land to sky.

Pele

Pele PDF Author: Herb Kawainui Kāne
Publisher: Booklines Hawaii Limited
ISBN: 9780943357010
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
Presents lore associated with that impetuous and unpredictable, yet gentle and loving personality, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, Pele.

Maui Hooks the Islands

Maui Hooks the Islands PDF Author: Gabrielle Ahulii
Publisher: Beachhouse Pub.
ISBN: 9781933067766
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Maui Hooks the Islands introduces kids ages 0-4 to one of Hawaii's best-known legends about Maui the demigod who fished up the Hawaiian islands using a magic fishing hook. In simple, poetic language, this origin story gives small kids a taste of Hawaii's rich history of storytelling. Three other titles in the Hawaiian Legends for Little Ones series are: Hina, Pele Finds a Home, and Naupaka--all legends that will give kids a wider view of Hawaiian culture, history, and its natural world.