
A Hawaiian tale hints at an enormous wave that when struck the island of Maui
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A Hawaiian narrative tale involving the wrath of 2 deities has helped scientists observe down remnants of an 8-metre-high tsunami that battered the state’s 2nd biggest island, Maui, a minimum of 350 years in the past.
“Our paintings breathes new lifestyles into an historic moʻolelo [a story passed down in folklore], hanging flesh at the bones of an important ancient tournament,” says Scott Fisher on the College of Southampton, UK.