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Polynesian Religion, E. S. Craighill Handy's 1927 synthesis published as Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 34, part of the Bayard Dominick Expedition series, is independently confirmed as a still-cited live scholarly source for specific Tongan Pulotu material, the afterlife located northwest of the archipelago and the water of life near Pulotu's ruler, by a 2011 comparative study of Polynesian eschatology citing this same book by page number. Its strength is that continuing scholarly citation for specific, checkable material. Its limit is its age and era's comparative method, treating mythic geography and comparative structure across island groups; it is not a source for closed ritual or ceremonial content, which this atlas does not draw from it.
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E. S. Craighill Handy's Polynesian Religion, published as Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 34 in 1927, is a foundational ethnographic synthesis from the leading Pacific research museum of its era, still cited across Polynesian studies, treated at the top tier. NotesEarly academic synthesis of Polynesian religious concepts across island groups, part of the Bayard Dominick Expedition series. Independently confirmed as a live scholarly citation for Tongan Pulotu material (afterlife located northwest of the archipelago, home of the ancestors and the gods, page 102; the water of life and a talking tree near Pulotu's ruler, page 145) by Buckova, "A Comparison and Analysis of Eschatological Themes in Polynesian Mythology" (Asian and African Studies, 2011). Mythic geography and comparative structure only; not a source for closed ritual or ceremonial content.
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AuthorE. S. Craighill Handy
PublisherBernice P. Bishop Museum (Bulletin 34)
Publication Year1927
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source backs 39 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 2 connected. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Realms, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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