HAWAIIAN MYTHOLOGY

Martha Warren Beckwith

THIS guide to the native mythology of Hawaii has grown out of a childhood and youth spent within sound of the hula drum at the foot of the domelike House of the Sun on the windy island of Maui. There, wandering along its rocky coast and sandy beaches, exploring its windward gorges, riding above the cliffs by moonlight when the surf was high or into the deep forests at midday, we were aware always of a life 
just out of reach of us latecomers but lived intensely by the kindly, generous race who had chanced so many centuries ago upon its shores.






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