Hainuwele
Sign in to savethumb|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.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Indonesian
- Deity.name
- Hainuwele
- Deity.image
- XRF-Hainuwele.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Hainuwele defecating valuable objects.
- Deity.god_of
- Deity that gave origin to the main vegetable crops
- Deity.abode
- Seram
- Deity.symbol
- Coconut flower
- Deity.parents
- Ameta (Father)
- Deity.mount
- none
- Deity.affiliation
- Origin myths, Phosop
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Myth
- Analysis and interpretation
- Dema deity myth
- Social anthropological interpretation
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|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.
The myth of Hainuwele was recorded by German ethnologist Adolf E. Jensen following the Frobenius Institute's 1937–38 expedition to the Maluku Islands. The study of this myth during his research on religious sacrifice led Jensen to the introduction of the concept of Dema Deity in ethnology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hainuwele” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.