Reading Notes: Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes Part A
This collection of stories focused a lot towards the Fire Goddess Pele. These stories taught me more about Pele then I could remember and also helped to bring some stories back from memory. Adding descriptions to Hawaiian words helps the reader understand the meaning of them. I should look into using more of the Hawaiian language in my stories as Westervelt has done. It might make people more interested in the culture as a whole.
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes by W. D. Westervelt Part A
Photo taken by Prayitno, September 18, 2014
Volcano Goddess Pele, Source: Flickr.
I am so glad you are using the extra reading options as a chance to do some Hawaii reading and find that story material for your Portfolio, Matthew! And listen, since Week 11 is still Native American week in class, feel free to go ahead and just do all Hawaii reading this week if you want; it's a Pacific Island tradition... but thanks to the weirdness of history and empires, the Hawaiians have ended up becoming Native "Americans" in a sense, so if you want to do all your reading this week from the Hawaii books online, that would work for this week! :-)
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