Baloma — Malinowski — A classic ethnographic monograph on the beliefs about death, spirits, and the afterlife among the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia.
Hawaiian Folk Tales — Thrum — An anthology of classic Hawaiian folklore including tales of the Menehune, Kahunas, and the ancient legends of the Hawaiian islands.
Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu — Westervelt — Legends and traditions centered on the sacred landscape of Honolulu and its surrounding areas, one of the richest mythological regions of the Pacific.
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes — Westervelt — The legends of Pele, the Hawaiian Fire Goddess — her deeds, her family, her loves, and the volcanic fires she commands across the islands.
Hawaiian Mythology — Beckwith — The definitive critical study of Hawaiian mythology, with parallels to other Pacific cultures and extensive variations of each tradition.
Legends of Maui — Westervelt — A collection of Hawaiian and Polynesian legends about the great culture hero Maui, who fished up islands, snared the sun, and sought immortality.
Noa Noa — Gauguin — Gauguin's Tahitian journal, recording his encounter with the mythology and spiritual knowledge embedded in Polynesian culture.
Oceanic Mythology — Dixon — A scholarly cross-cultural study of Pacific mythology and folklore, covering Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Indonesia, and Australia.
Polynesian Mythology — Grey — The primary source for Maori mythology and traditions of New Zealand, as recorded from the priests and chiefs of the Maori people by Governor Grey.
Te Pito Te Henua — Easter Island — Thomson — A Smithsonian monograph on Easter Island featuring images and translations of the rongo-rongo tablets, one of the few attested translations available.
The Kumulipo — Beckwith — The Royal Hawaiian Creation chant with scholarly commentary, describing the emergence of life from the ocean and hundreds of generations of the primal gods.
The Kumulipo — Liliuokalani — The Royal Hawaiian creation chant, translated by the last Queen of Hawaii, describing the emergence of life from primal darkness through hundreds of generations.
The Lore of the Whare-Wananga — Smith — The sacred teachings of the Maori Whare-Wananga, the college of esoteric knowledge, covering cosmogony, theology, and ancestral history.