Myth of Arrival

“hina and her dream shark” (ZJC, 2009)
The Polynesian goddess Hina appears in many stories; she is beautiful, at times vain, at times a trickster. She is credited with giving birth to the first coconut tree after she took the eel god, Tuna-roa, as her lover.
The story I am familiar with is when Hina sailed […]

“dream of the shark girl”
The use of the word “primitive” when discussing religious beliefs is almost always used as a negative; their primitive beliefs, our true ones. It is a definition that is a hold over from Western colonization; when people could use the word, without irony, as “of or pertaining to a preliterate […]