Hawaiian Legends of Dreams / Caren Loebel-Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loebel-Fried, Caren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legends--Hawaii.

Legends.

Hawaiians--Folklore.

Hawaiians.

Folklore--Hawaii.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Moe'uhane, the Hawaiian word for dream, means "soul sleep." Hawaiians of old believed they communicated with 'auma-kua, their ancestral guardians, while sleeping, and this important relationship was sustained through dreaming. During "soul sleep," people received messages of guidance from the gods; romantic relationships blossomed; prophecies were made; cures were revealed. Dreams provided inspiration, conveying songs and dances that were remembered and performed upon waking. Specialists interpreted dreams, which were referred to and analyzed whenever important decisions were to be made. Having no written language, Hawaiians passed their history and life lessons down in the form of legends, which were committed to memory and told and retold. And within these stories are a multitude of dreams--as in a famous legend of the goddess Pele, who travels in a dream to meet and entrance the high chief Lohi'au. Dreams continue to play an important role in modern Hawaiian culture and are considered by some to have as powerful an influence today as in ancient times. In this companion volume to her award-winning Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits, artist Caren Loebel-Fried retells and illuminates nine dream stories from Hawai'i's past that are sure to please readers young and old, kama'aina and malihini, alike.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Dreams Sent by the Gods

Part Two: Dream Romances

Part Three: Dream Prophecies

Part Four: Dream Guidance Sent by the Spirits

Sources

About the Author

Notes:

"A Latitude 20 book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824845247

0824845242

9780824872274

0824872274

OCLC:

982122344