Award-winning storyteller Leilehua Yuen and her husband, musician Manu Josiah shares Stories of the Stars at this month’s Ma lalo o ka Pō Lani. This presentation is presented as part of the week-long global story-telling celebration which begins each year on the Spring Equinox with World Storytelling Day.
This year, the theme of World Storytelling Day is “Myths, Legends, and Epics.”
As in many cultures, the stars are Hawaii’s calendar, clock, map, and library. From ancient times, our navigators used the stars as a guide across the ocean. Farmers and fishers used them to as an almanac. By their movements, people told the seasons and the times. And the constellations illustrated the great myths, legends, and epics of the Polynesians who traversed the ocean for millennia.
Join Manu and Leilehua at 3 pm in the Presentation Room of the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy at the 9,000 ft elevation on Mauna Kea for an hour of sharing a brief glimpse into some of Hawaiʻi’s storytelling traditions, as illustrated by the stars.
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