Hainuwele
Hainuwele, "Gadis Kelapa", adalah sebuah figur dari cerita rakyat Wemale dan Alune dari pulau Seram di Kepulauan Maluku, Indonesia. Ceritanya adalah mitos asal usul.[1]
Hainuwele | |
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Dewa yang menciptakan tumbuhan sayur-sayuran utama | |
Afiliasi | Mitos asal usul, Phosop |
Kediaman | Seram |
Simbol | Bunga kelapa |
Kendaraan | none |
Orang tua | Ameta (ayah) |
Referensi
Bacaan tambahan
- Darlington, Beth The Myth of Hainuwele: Metamorphosis of a Maiden Goddess, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 1991
- Eliade, Mircea. Myth and Reality. 1963.
- Jensen, Adolf E., Myth and Cult among Primitive Peoples, translated by Marianna Tax Choldin and Wolfgang Weissleder (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963).
- Prager, Michael "Half-Men, Tricksters and Dismembered Maidens: The Cosmological Transformation of Body and Society in Wemale Mythology", École des hautes études, No. 174, (April–June 2005), pp. 103–124. JSTOR 40661536.