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Some pieces relating to blackbirding from New Zealand papers
At first relatively small ships – cutters, and ketches, and schooners – from New Zealand’s more northerly ports made up the bulk of the Kiwi blackbirding fleet, but as time went on, and the profits to be made from the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Politics
Tagged Crime, Murder, Nautical, New Zealand Social History, NZ, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Prussians of the South Seas
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O’ Star
O STAR! New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume V, Issue 1, 1 October 1901, Page 42 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZI19011001.2.16&srpos=1&e=——-10-NZI-1—-0pagan– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand
THE TINY TREE
THE TINY TREE Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 17 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19341222.2.133&e=——-100–201—-0psychic+monster– With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand
The Noosing of the Sun-God
The Noosing of the Sun-God Jessie Mackay 1910 “Tiraha, Te Ra! I am Maui,— Maui, the bantling, the darling;— Maui, the fire-thief, the jester;— Maui, the world’s fisherman! Thou art the Sun-God, Te Ra of the flaming hair. Heretofore man … Continue reading
Celtic Echoes
CELTIC ECHOES. Otago Witness , Issue 2828, 27 May 1908, Page 82 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19080527.2.354&srpos=7&e=——-100–1—-2pagan+art–
Dunedin from the bay
by the author of the national anthem Thomas Bracken DUNEDIN FROM THE BAY. North Otago Times, Volume XV, Issue 554, 9 September 1870, Page 4 with thanks to the National library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NOT18700909.2.20.1&dliv=&e=——-10–1—-0–
The Poet’s Gods
THE POET’S GODS. Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 296, 1 November 1922, Page 12 With thanks to the national library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MW19221101.2.54.3&e=——-100–1—-0distant+gods–
A Madmans Verse
Page 14 Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 14 With thanks to the national library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TO18850523.1.14&e=——-100-TO-1—-0burning+%22they+say%22–
A transmission of myth
A seemingly innocuous retelling of the classical myth of the Ages of man, in the girls column of the children’s page of the Auckland star, wrapped in the cloying tweeness of the lexicon of writing for children that prevailed for most of the 20th century. … Continue reading
Posted in Deities, FolkLore
Tagged Goddess, Gods, Nature Worship, NZ, Our Mandate, Poetry, Prose
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An Invasion of Goddesses; Symbolist prose from the Otago Witness
AN INVASION OF GODDESSES. Otago Witness , Issue 2715, 28 March 1906, Page 78 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19060328.2.197&e=——-10–1—-0–
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