In the creation myths of Polynesian mythology are found various concepts of the heavens and the underworld.

* Sava ( mythology ), a creature in the Polynesian mythology

Polynesian mythology is the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia, a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers.

Māui ( Maui ) is the great hero of Polynesian mythology.

Category: Polynesian mythology ( multi-region )

Hina ( literally “ girl ”) is the name of several different goddesses and women in Polynesian mythology.

Category: Polynesian mythology ( multi-region )

* Polynesian mythology

Category: Polynesian mythology ( multi-region )

* Polynesian mythology

Category: Polynesian mythology ( multi-region )

In Polynesian mythology, Ara Tiotio is a god of tornadoes.

Category: Polynesian mythology

Category: Polynesian mythology

Atanua ( or Atanea ), in Polynesian mythology ( specifically: Marquesas Islands ) is the goddess of the dawn and wife of Atea ( Atea and Atanua emerged from Tanaoa, Atea first, who then made space for Atanua ).

In Polynesian mythology, Atarapa (" daybreak ") is the goddess of the dawn and a daughter of Haronga.

Category: Polynesian mythology

Category: Polynesian mythology ( multi-region )

It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology, developing its own unique character for several centuries before about 1800.

Samoan mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology in the Samoa Islands.

* Polynesian mythology

The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90 % of the land is communally owned.

Each of these is subdivided in a manner reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but the number of divisions and their names differs from one Polynesian culture to another.

The Polynesian conception of the universe and its division is nicely illustrated by a famous drawing made by a Tuomotuan chief in 1869.

Hawaiian history is inextricably tied into a larger Polynesian phenomenon.

Hawaii is the apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawaii, Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

Origin of the word is Polynesian.

The land area is with about 1, 400 people who are predominantly Polynesian.

" Future Together " is a party of mostly Caucasian and Polynesian New Caledonians opposed to independence but tired of the hegemonic and allegedly corrupt anti-independence RPCR.

* 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

Hawaiian, and the Polynesian languages generally, have unusually large numbers of such words, such as aeāea ( a small green fish ), which is three syllables: ae. āe. a.

Most long words involve reduplication, which is quite productive in Polynesian: ioio ' grooves ', eaea ' breath ', uaua ' tough ' ( all four syllables ), auēuē ' crying ' ( five syllables, from uē ( uwē ) ' to weep '), uoa or uouoa ' false mullet ' ( sp.

This is nearly universal in Dravidian languages and Australian languages, but is widely found elsewhere, for example in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Finnish, and the Polynesian languages.

There are controversial indications, though, of some sort of South American / Polynesian contact, most notably in the fact that the South American sweet potato is served as a dietary staple throughout much of Polynesia.

However, recent scientific investigation that compares the DNA of some of the Polynesian islands with natives from Peru suggests that there is some merit to Heyerdahl's ideas and that while Polynesia was colonized from Asia, some contact with South America also existed.

In the Hawaiian Islands, the coconut is regarded as a Polynesian introduction, first brought to the islands by early Polynesian voyagers from their homelands in Oceania.

In Peru, the Quechua name for a type of sweet potato is kumar, strikingly similar to the Polynesian name kumara and its regional Oceanic cognates (" kumala ," " umala ," " ' uala ," etc .).

The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from the Samoan Islands into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia.

Tuvalu is on the western boundary of the Polynesian Triangle so that the northern islands of Tuvalu, particularly Nui have links to Micronesians from Kiribati.

Tuvalu is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia.

The population is around 38, 000 ; predominately Melanesian, with small Polynesian, Asian, Australian and European populations, mainly French and British.