The Echo of Our Song
Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians
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ISBN-13:
9780824806682
Veröffentl:
1979
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.1979
Seiten:
252
Autor:
Mary Kawena Pukui
Gewicht:
417 g
Format:
228x154x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Haina ia mai ana ka puana. This familiar refrain, sometimes translated "Let the echo of our song be heard," appears among the closing lines in many nineteenth-century chants and poems. From earliest times, the chanting of poetry served the Hawaiians as a form of ritual celebration of the things they cherished--the beauty of their islands, the abundance of wild creatures that inhabited their sea and air, the majesty of their rulers, and the prowess of their gods. Commoners as well as highborn chiefs and poet-priests shared in the creation of the chants. These haku mele, or "composers," the commoners especially, wove living threads from their own histoic circumstances and everyday experiences into the ongoing oral tradition, as handed down from expert to pupil, or from elder to descendant, generation after generation.
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