Hainuwele

Hainuwele
Deity that gave origin to the main vegetable crops
Hainuwele defecating valuable objects.
AffiliationOrigin myths, Phosop
AbodeSeram
SymbolCoconut flower
Mountnone
ParentsAmeta (Father)
Coconut flower

Hainuwele, "The Coconut Girl", is a figure from the Wemale and Alune folklore of the island of Seram in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Her story is an origin myth.[1]

The myth of Hainuwele was recorded by German ethnologist Adolf E. Jensen following the Frobenius Institute's 1937–38 expedition to the Maluku Islands.[2] The study of this myth during his research on religious sacrifice led Jensen to the introduction of the concept of Dema Deity in ethnology.[3]

Joseph Campbell first narrated the Hainuwele legend to an English-speaking audience in his work The Masks of God.[4]

  1. ^ Leeming, David (6 June 2019). "Hainuwele". The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195156690.001.0001. ISBN 9780195156690 – via www.oxfordreference.com.
  2. ^ Jensen, Adolf E. and Herman Niggemeyer, Hainuwele; Völkserzählungen von der Molukken-Insel Ceram (Ergebnisse der Frobenius-Expedition vol. I), Frankfurt-am-Main 1939
  3. ^ "The study of religion(s) in Western Europe II - Michael Stausberg" (PDF).
  4. ^ Campbell, Joseph, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, 1959.

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