"Popular Legends and Myths of Hawaii"

Hawaiian culture is, by nature, legends and myths, to a large extent similar to that in other Polynesian islands. As in every culture, from the need to explain the world around them. They explain how life came to be, and were from one generation to the next orally. There are too many gods in the retail trade in an article, but here are some of my favorites.

The Menehune are magical "little people" of Hawaii. The legend is the highest on the island of Kauai, where traditions say Waimea Canyon was the home of the Menehune. These people are usually very playful and physically too short, about two meters high, but some are only six inches high. Hand-walls, the temples and the fish are, the work of the builders. It is interesting that the Menehune can only work at night under the glow of moon, and when they were discovered or not completed, the project is before the dawn, they left. Fortunately, it is not often.

Pele, the goddess of fire, said today in a life Halemaumau crater on the summit of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The legends are in the way that Pele was at this point, but most say they come from Tahiti. She left his place of birth, possibly because they want to travel, or because they were in exile from her father for his bad character, or because they were chased from his house to his brother rage, her husband, she seduces. Whatever it is, at the end of Pele in Hawaii. First, in Kauai, then Oahu, Maui, Molokai, and before he takes on the Big Island. The most famous legends about Maui is bad luck curse she said to the person who rocks from the archipelago. Thousands of pieces of lava stones, each year in Hawaii, by the people who say have terrible bad fate since his rocks.

The march of the night is another of my favorites. These are considered high or Shadow Warrior ali'i (leader) of spirits. They are wrong on certain points some nights, beat drums, vocals and for the burner. Wanderer in the night due to rumor Oahu - the Pali Highway, Nuuanu Pali Lookout and Kualoa Ranch, among others. La Perouse Bay on the island of Maui and Molokai Kaunakakai town on other sites reported. If you witnessed one night in March, says the legend, you have to crouch low to avoid the eyes and death if not the run of the night is you and you is death. If you like, the stories of ghosts, one of the Ghost Tours on Oahu.

There is much more popular Hawaiian legends and myths, of which Filou demigod Maui, the shark Nana'ue man, Laka, the goddess of hula, and Kane, the father of living organisms. Many of these legends are still preserved and the hula and chants for Hawaiian culture