In Maori mythology, Tiki was the first man, and in Moscow Tiki is the very first real Hawaiian themed bar. The inspiration for the hip interior, complete with...TikiBar
So I was very into the whole Polynesian mythology, and I thought I could bring some of that to it. So I rewrote what had been written and sent it back. I can't remember to this day how much of Boneheads remained and how much was mine. It was that really, so we went from there...
My interest in Maori mythology is that of an amateur only and although I spent much of my childhood and early adulthood in New Zealand, I am not myself Maori… a book on Maori culture written by a non-expert, non-Maori and a non-scholar will likely be perceived as naïve at best,...
Little of the extensive body of Maori mythology and tradition was recorded in the early years of European contact. The missionaries had the best opportunity to get the information, but failed to do so at first, in part because their knowledge of the language was imperfect. Most of the mission...
Comparisons of Greek and Oceanic Mythology The purpose of myths is to answer questions, to educate, and to entertain. How was a man created? Why does the earth do the things it does? Cultures throughout the ancient world tried to answer these questions in the form of myth. In Greece, ...
Maori sky reckoning is really nothing more than the ability to work out latitude, gussied up with mythology. Lacking a North Star, as we will someday again as the axis precesses, they had to compute it indirectly from when stars rose. Additional practic...