How to explain the similarities?

    I’ve been passing on snippets of Hawaiian folklore – here, here, here, here, here, and here – and now, perhaps, it would be appropriate to follow up with a summary statement.  It comes from Abraham Fornander (d. 1887), a Swedish-born emigrant to Hawaii who became an important journalist, judge, and pioneer Polynesian ethnologist, and who was the author of, among other things, [Read More...]