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The Maldives - Flower Of The Indies
Learn of the culture and geography of the Maldives. This is the flattest country in the world. There are about 200 inhabited islands scattered over an area of about 35,000 square miles in the Indian Ocean. The book has beautiful color photographs on almost every page. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1025 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Chapters: Tāna, Maldivian Folklore, Dhivehi Writing Systems, Culture of the Maldives, Malé Latin, Bodufenvalhuge Sidi, Dhives Akuru, Sha Viyani, Xavier Romero-Frias, Ṇaviyani, Boduberu, Maldivian Cuisine, Lhaimagu Faqeeraa, Male' Hukuru Miskiy, Saikuraa Ibrahim Naeem, Mahal Literature, Women in the Maldives, Raivaru. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maldive Mythology or Maldive Folklore is the body of myths, tales and anecdotes belonging to the oral tradition of Maldivians. Even though some of the Maldivian myths were already mentioned briefly by British commissioner in Ceylon HCP Bell towards the end of the 19th century, their study and publication were carried out only quite recently by Spanish writer and artist Xavier Romero-Frias, at a time when that ancestral worldview was quickly disappearing. The Maldives lie in the warm equatorial area of the Indian Ocean surrounded by very deep waters. This nation is made up exclusively of coral atolls. There are about 1,200 small flat and sandy islands, but only about 200 of them are inhabited. The Maldives have been continuously populated for millennia; therefore the folklore of these islands is very ancient. The main myths of origin are reflecting the dependence of the Maldivians on the coconut tree and the tuna fish. A legend says that the first inhabitants of the Maldives died in great numbers, but a great sorcerer or fandita man made coconut trees grow out of the skulls of the buried corpses of the first settlers. Therefore the coconut tree is said to have an anthropomorphic origin according to Maldive lore. The coconut tree occupies a central place in the present-day Maldive national emblem. The tuna fish is said to have been brought to the Maldivian waters by a mythical seafarer (maalimi) call...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10275895 ... Read more