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The Path of the Ocean : Traditional Poetry of Polynesia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Marjorie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk poetry, Polynesian--Translations into English.
- Folk poetry, Polynesian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Path of the Ocean
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- The Path of the Ocean is the first anthology of representative Polynesian poetry to be offered as a book of poetry rather than as a ethnological or historical document.Guided primarily by literary taste, Marjorie Sinclair has gathered poems from many sources and from translations with many kinds of expertise.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Notes
- Hawaii
- From "An ancient prayer"
- From "The Kumulipo"
- Birth of sea and land life
- Winged life
- The Night-digger
- The nibblers
- The water of Kane
- An appeal for rain
- Prayer to Kane
- Harvest prayer
- House dedication prayer
- Tree-felling song
- Pele and Hi'i-aka
- The coming of Pele
- The spy
- Watch your way
- Songs of the girl without hands
- Stormy weather
- Kauhi
- Hi'i-aka's song at Ka-'ena
- Hi'i-aka's song for the Stone of Kaua'i
- Songs to the ghost of Lohi'au
- Hi'i-aka chants to restore Lohi'au to life
- Vision of the burning
- A storm, a rough surf
- The fires of Pele
- Lohi'au's song
- From "Fallen is the chief"
- from Canto III
- from Canto IV
- From "A chant for the island of Maui"
- A kapu is placed
- 1
- 2
- Love song
- The salt pond of Mana
- From "Ka-'ahu-manu's dirge for Ke'e-au-moku"
- From "Birth chant for Kau-i-ke-ao-uli"
- 3
- A name song for Princess Nahi'ena'ena
- Song
- Shark song
- Chant composed while drunk
- Lament on the death of a first child
- From "A name chant for Kupake'e"
- Song of the chanter Ka-'ehu
- Piano at evening
- Samoa
- From a creation chant
- Chant for the whale
- Lovers' farewell
- Tonga
- The weather shore of Vavau
- How I love her way
- Poem of Falepapalangi to Mamaeaepoto
- Poem of Veehala
- The Society Islands
- Creation chant
- Chant for a royal birth
- Anointing the royal child
- Chant to usher in the dawn
- The song of Ru's sister
- Warrior's taunting song
- Song of Pa'ea
- Invocation for fire-walking
- A chief's refusal
- A chief's lament for home
- The Tuamotus
- Greeting of Tane
- Farewell to my land
- Rata's lament for his father
- Chant to announce a catch of turtle.
- Prayer offering turtle flesh to the gods
- Prayer for arrival of turtle at the temple
- Chant for Horahora
- Chant of Kororupo
- The Marquesas
- Chant honoring a first-born son
- Be careful
- Hiva'oa balances
- The faufe'e bird
- Strong fires disturb
- When a man's body is young
- Easter Island
- A chant of creation
- A prayer for rain
- Dampened by dew
- You are sick with love
- O Manu
- Mangareva
- Tahaki's drum
- 4
- Song of departure
- The message of the frigate bird
- The rich and the poor
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- The flower at the spring
- Joy turns to sadness
- Sea burial of Toga's daughter
- The sacred house
- The casting out of love
- I am left alone
- Lament
- The canoe of Mamau-ora
- Haul away
- Song of things in the upper world
- Lament for old age
- Cook Islands
- Prayer over a human sacrifice to Rongo
- Where has she gone?
- Puvai leading a band of ghosts to the underworld
- Death lament for Varenga
- Tuvalu
- Vaitupu songs
- Kapingamarangi
- The post standing in the sky
- I go down to the lagoon
- I am on the water
- Chant for the bonito canoe
- Search for
- The man stayed
- Tikopia
- Lament for a friend
- Dream song
- New Zealand
- The creation of woman
- Chant for bailing a canoe
- Arrival at New Zealand
- From a lament for a son who burned to death
- Prayer for victory in battle
- Chant to incite warriors
- A war chant
- Spiders, hide my face.
- Te Rauparaha's farewell to Kawhia
- Potatau's song of sorrow
- Dirge for a chief
- A ritual spell
- Vision
- Song of mourning
- A charm: Is it the wind?
- Song of a second wife
- The deserted girl's lament
- A mourning song for Rangiaho
- A song of sickness
- Chant to restore breath to a dead person
- A lament for his house
- How the trembling shakes me
- Oh! I am torn with fear
- On the hilltops
- An ancient flute song
- Sources
- HAWAII
- SAMOA
- TONGA
- THE SOCIETY ISLANDS
- THE TUAMOTUS
- THE MARQUESAS
- EASTER ISLAND
- MANGAREVA
- COOK ISLANDS
- TUVALU
- KAPINGAMARANGI
- TIKOPIA
- NEW ZEALAND.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-8388-8
- OCLC:
- 1531322124
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