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| Genre/Form: | Folklore |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bo Flood; Connie J Adams |
| ISBN: | 1573061026 9781573061025 1573061018 9781573061018 |
| OCLC Number: | 48421392 |
| Description: | xiv, 194 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | MYTHS AND LEGENDS FROM THE CHAMORRO AND CAROLINIAN PEOPLE -- Chamorro Creation Myth -- Before Words Were Written -- How the Women Saved Guam -- Okkodu: A Clever Trick for a Beautiful Girl -- The Pandanus: A Legend of Service -- The Great Sea Race -- Half Man but Strong Magic: The Legend of Lipe'pee'lmo'ng -- How Navigation Came to Micronesia -- From Spanish Times (1668-1899) -- Sirena -- Juan Malo and the Governor's Three Pigs (a play) -- The Legend of the Flame Tree -- Banana and Coconut -- FOLKLORE AND HISTORICAL TALES -- The Legend of the Breadfruit Tree -- Have We Always Had Banana Trees? -- The Ancient Chamorros -- The Legend of Taga -- Paru'ng: Top Hat Chief -- Rafalawasch Wake (poem) -- Luta's Little Miracle: A Look at Luta (Rota) Long Ago -- Buried Treasure: Ship of Silver and Jewels -- The Miracle of a Mysterious Lady -- Stones from Long Ago: Latte -- WINDOWS TO OUR ANCESTORS: LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT -- What We Do -- The Magic of Fragrance: The Mwaar of the Rafalawasch -- Respetu: The Showing or Giving of Respect -- What Is Respect? -- Our Banyan Tree -- A "Song Sung" Tradition -- Some Chamorro Recipes -- Luus! A Carolinian Love Game -- What We Believe -- When a Woman Is Pregnant: Carolinian Customs -- Journey in Life and Death: Carolinian Traditions -- Funeral Chant (poem) -- When We Dance -- Origins of Stick Dance, a Carolinian Tradition -- Warrior Dance: A Carolinian Stick Dance -- Sa-Rin-a-Lo-Mwan (Dance of Invitation) -- MICRONESIAN NAVIGATION -- The Revival of Traditional Navigation -- Arrogance (poem) -- Let Our Voyage Be Safe (poem) -- SHIVER STORIES -- Introduction -- The Crying Child and the Haunted House -- Death of a Friend -- The Card That Disappeared -- A School Spirit and Bloody Mary -- How a Taotaomo'na Rebels -- Illusions: Real or Unreal? -- The Boy on the Side of the Road -- Salt and Lemon -- Wooden Rainbow -- RHYMES AND RIDDLES -- The Sea Thunders -- The Flame Tree -- Green Fingers, Red Tongue -- Group Riddles -- Graveyard of Corals -- Mango Palace -- Home (poem) -- Select Bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | compiled by Bo Flood ; with a foreword by Lawrence J. Cunningham ; illustrations by Connie J. Adams. |
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- Legends -- Mariana Islands.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Folklore.
- Tales -- Mariana Islands.
- Mythology, Micronesian.
- Légendes -- Mariannes.
- Chamorro (Peuple de Micronésie) -- Folklore.
- Contes -- Mariannes.
- Chamorro (Micronesian people)
- Legends.
- Tales.
- Mariana Islands.
- Mythologie
- Erzählung
- Marianen.
