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Although Hina was a goddess and had a family possessing miraculous power, it never entered the mind of the Hawaiian legend tellers to endow her with ease in producing wonderful results
Read record →The district through which that portion of the river runs bears to this day the name "Wai-kuna" or "Kuna's river." When the writer was talking with the natives concerning this part of the old legend, they said "Kuna is not a Hawaiian word
Read record →Kuna heard the crash of the club against the stones of the river bank and fled up the river to his home in the hidden caves by the pools in the river bed
Read record →Kuna-mo-o fled to his different hiding places, but Maui broke up the river bed and drove the dragon out from every one, following him from place to place as he fled down the river
Read record →Some versions of the legend say that Maui poured boiling water in the river and sent it in swift pursuit of Kuna, driving him from point to point and scalding his life out of him
Read record →She could not be injured by the heat for she was a goddess of fire
Read record →The natives say that Maui came to "burn" or "cook the rain" and that he made the oven very hot, but that the goddess of rain escaped and hung over the hill in the form of a cloud
Read record →The New Zealand legend says that the woman went after water in the night
Read record →re crooked, and her feet were like hippopotamus hoofs, and she was scorned for even her nails, which were worn to the quick with household toil; and he continued in this style to vex her, until at last he became persuaded that it was she who tormented him
Read record →Observing that there were a number of ground-squirrels about, she thought of snares to catch them
Read record →f the robbery of the fish and of the manner of it; and the great chief placed Koku's life in the power of Uyimba, whose daughter he had wronged, who at once ordered Koku to be beheaded, and his body to be thrown into the river
Read record →The words of the elephant have turned out to be true, for no man goes now-a-days into the silent and deserted woods but he feels as though something were haunting them, and thinks of goblinry, and starts at every sound
Read record →"Well, you know, among the Basoko, it is supposed, if one is too clever, or too lucky, or too rich, that it has come about through dealings in witchcraft, and people are burned in consequence
Read record →Dog trotted out to the entrance of the den to examine the stranger for himself, and, after close inspection of him, asked Jackal what work he could do
Read record →At the next village of Ngondo a smart boy named Rutuana was brought to me, who was said to have been lately playing with a young friend of the same age at long stick and little stick (tip-cat?)
Read record →The friendly chief insisted that I should become his blood-fellow, and stay with him a couple of days
Read record →It is not with a wish to be unkind to Kadu that I say he showed only too well that according to him cunning was to be preferred to strength
Read record →We had a man named Kanga with us in 1883, which name seems to have been bestowed on him by some Islamised resident of Nyangwe by reason of some fancied suggestion made by some of his facial marks to the spots on a guinea-fowl
Read record →Well (began Baruti), this tribe dwelt on the banks of the Black River just above Basoko town, and at that time of the far past the thick forest round about them was haunted by many monstrous animals; big apes, chimpanzees, gorillas and such creatures, which ar
Read record →As he stood wondering whether this was the black stream that flowed past his village, he saw, a little to the right of him, an immense gorilla, who on account of the long dark fur on his chest appeared to be bigger than he really was
Read record →history of the wars of Alexander.(9) It has a vividness which stamps it as a bit of authentic history, and another singular testimony to the truth of the narrative has been brought to light by de Jubainville
Read record →He reduced everything to pure decoration
Read record →place at the time of the German revolt we shall never know; certain it is, however, that from about the year 300 B.C
Read record →A characteristic scene from the battle of Clastidium (222 B.C.) is recorded by Polybius
Read record →Ammianus Marcellinus, who wrote much later, in the latter half of the fourth century A.D., had also visited Gaul, which was then, of course, much Romanised
Read record →The verse-forms of Celtic poetry have probably played the main part in determining the structure of all modern verse
Read record →investment with vague and uncontrollable powers, of a spiritual force formerly embodied in the concrete, limited, manageable, and therefore less awful form of a living human personality
Read record →The central hollow represents the actual burial-place
Read record →This tumulus, and the others which occur in its neighbourhood, appear in ancient Irish mythical literature in two different characters, the union of which is significant
Read record →Now this symbol of the feet or footprint is very widespread
Read record →Let it be remembered that in the early Middle Ages Celts from Ireland were the most notable explorers, the most notable pioneers of religion, science, and speculative thought in Europe.(73) Modern investigators have traced their footprints of light over half t
Read record →It would be strange indeed if, alone among the races of the world, the Celts had no world-myth
Read record →The latter, as we shall see, represents them as the presiding deities of science and poetry
Read record →as so used at the inauguration of a reign did from immemorial times exist at Tara, and was sent thence to Scotland early in the sixth century for the crowning of Fergus the Great, son of Erc, who begged his brother Murtagh mac Erc, King of Ireland, for the loa
Read record →The story, then, goes that Balor, the Fomorian king, heard in a Druidic prophecy that he would be slain by his grandson
Read record →Standish O’Grady’s “Critical History of Ireland.”(90) This work is no less remarkable for its critical insight—it was published in 1881, when scientific study of the Celtic mythology was little heard of—than for the true bardic imagination, kindred to that of
Read record →Four bright birds that ever hovered about his head were supposed to be his kisses taking shape in this lovely form, and at their singing love came springing up in the hearts of youths and maidens
Read record →Her name still clings to the “Hill of Ainé” (Knockainey), near Loch Gur, in Munster
Read record →He is flung from the swaying mast, but as he falls to his death he cries his message to his shipmates: “There is no storm aloft.” Amergin, who as poet—that is to say, Druid—takes the lead in all critical situations, thereupon chants his incantation to the land
Read record →The Danaans dwell in the spiritual Ireland, which is portioned out among them by their great overlord, the Dagda
Read record →They are for the most part radiantly beautiful, they are immortal (with limitations), and they wield mysterious powers of sorcery and enchantment
Read record →ving by magic art changed her into a butterfly, she raised a tempest that drove her forth from the palace, and kept her for seven years buffeted hither and thither throughout the length and breadth of Erin
Read record →And there was that maiden undoing her hair that she might wash it, her two arms out through the armholes of her smock
Read record →Eochy then assembled his forces to storm and destroy the fairy mound in which was the palace of Midir
Read record →Again and again the messenger is sent to them with promises of great reward if they will fall behind instead of preceding Conary
Read record →From this point the story of Conary Mōr takes on a character of supernatural vastness and mystery, the imagination of the bardic narrator dilating, as it were, with the approach of the crisis
Read record →Her mouth was twisted to one side of her head.” It was the Morrigan, the Danaan goddess of Death and Destruction
Read record →Meantime mac Cecht has rushed over Ireland in frantic search for the water
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