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@proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 11:47 AM

8-Oct-2026
#Polynesian wayfinding is written in the genomes of island populations
UC San Diego research reveals how Polynesian #seafaring shaped the #genomes of island #populations, offering new clues to health risks and medical discoveries in rarely studied communities […]

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:41 PM

#WIPSnips for Oct. 6 is 'rice'

The #mythic fantasy, being heavily #Polynesian, doesn't exactly have rice, but it does have a goddess of plenty who provides

(and, tbh, she's a combination of a Hawaiian mythic origin and Japanese mythic event, which included rice)

excerpt from 'Sea of Life, Heart of Fire' by Maikel Yarimizu
the word 'grain' is highlighted instead of 'rice'
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“We goddesses have our ways, do we not?” said Moki-Uke. “You name yourself the handmaiden of Honua-Mea; surely you have seen your goddess perform feats and miracles? It is no different for me. Yours is a goddess full of fire, but I have found another calling as the goddess of plenty. You wonder that there is no food here? You are mistaken; I am the food, and it is I.”
Moki-Uke took her knife and pressed it to her arm till it bled, and each crimson droplet landed on the ground as a perfect red berry. Next she took a handful of her hair and sheared it off, placing next to the berries the bundle of exotic grain it had become. “This is what it means to be a goddess: responsibility and sacrifice. You would do well to remember.”
“I do not know why you tell me this, but I thank you,” said Hiiaka. “So all of the food outside is of your making?”
“It is all mine, as it is of me. And so I provide for those who dwell here and those who visit, as well. Now, take this knife and help me prepare.”

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 2:55 PM

#WIPSnips for Oct. 3 is 'petal'

I'm surprised that, for all the flowers named in the #mythic #Polynesian fantasy WIP, there's only one instance of 'petal'

But it's in a good scene at the start of the second story, "How a Wife Found Lohiau"

excerpt from 'Sea of Life, Heart of Fire', second story: "How a Wife Found Lohiau" by Maikel Yarimizu
the word 'petals' is highlighted
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The wedding was, as all such important occasions should be, centered upon a feast. The scents on the air made stomachs growl like greedy hogs, and it was with great impatience that the guests were all seated along the two long tables—one for the men and the other for the women. Upon the wedding daïs, the chairs of bride and groom stood empty, awaiting the arrival of the celebrants.

Leinani, daughter of chiefs and woman of herb and medicine, walked with confidence up the aisle between the tables, her usual white bark dress exchanged for a flowing garment of even purer pallor, handed down from mother to daughter over the generations and lovingly maintained for this purpose. At her side, with his arm in hers, walked Master Hau with his broad chest bare beneath a leather vest and kilt. Together, they made their procession to the daïs, where the village elders awaited them.

“Greetings, sweet Leinani,” said the first elder, a woman so old she was claimed by all in the village as their grandmother. “Who is this man I see beside you? Is he your husband?”

“Yes,” Leinani declared with pride.

“Then take the garland from your chair.” The lei of vines and leaves, with the tiny white petals of the pikake flower hidden in its braids, was lifted from the bridal seat. Leinani placed it around the neck of her man.

“Greetings, Master Hau,” said the second elder, a wizened grandfather who knew the names of every fish in the waters. “Who is this woman I see beside you? Is she your wife?”

“Yes,” said Master Hau with a smile upon his lips.

@leilanikristina.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:19 AM

www.leilanikristina.com/blog/chief-o...

#ChiefOfWar
#Kanaka
#Polynesian
#Indigenous

@bastrod.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:25 PM

Kiribati Infantryman

#art #artist #illust #illustration #history #polynesian #polynesia #kiribati

@bastrod.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 1:24 PM

Vai a Heva

#art #artist #illust #illustration #history #easterisland #rapanui #polynesian #polynesia #chile

@kengage.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 6:19 PM

Art seems limitless. (I do sometimes worry that too much design diversity might deindividuate me or make my art invisible.)

Monsters Off Kualoa. (2024.)
#darkwave #popsurrealism #fantasy #polynesian #kengage #contemporaryart #popart #threadless
brainblister.threadless.com/designs/mons...

@kiweebear09.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 1:57 AM

#gaysamoan #polynesian #Samoa #maori #kiwiinaustralia
#gaybear #gaybeard

@gettymuseum.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 PM

Traveling from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the Getty Center, witness the US debut of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of #Mai, a compelling painting of the first #Polynesian visitor to Great Britain.

On view at the Getty Center today through March 14, 2027.
gty.art/4gTt227

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 11:09 AM

#WIPSnips for Sept. 6 is 'sigh'

We have a true snippet from the #Polynesian #mythic fantasy today, and not an entire page. Some things are better in suspense

snippet from 'Sea of Life, Heart of Fire' by Maikel Yarimizu
the word 'sigh' is highlighted
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There was not a sound to be heard behind her, and yet her ears caught that not-a-sound perfectly. It was like the sigh of an ant or the footsteps of a ghost, existing somewhere beyond the limits of hearing and yet there nonetheless. Whatever subtle signs her ears did catch, she could not say, only that she knew beyond knowing that there stood someone behind them now.