page_title: Hainuwele
hierarchical_section_title: Hainuwele
caption_attribution_description: English: Hainuwele defecating valuable objects. Hainuwele is a figure from the Wemale folklore of the island of Seram in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Her story is an origin myth.
context_page_description: Hainuwele, "The Coconut Girl", is a figure from the Wemale and Alune folklore of the island of Seram in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Her story is an origin myth.
  The myth of Hainuwele was recorded by German ethnologist Adolf E. Jensen following the Frobenius Institute's 1937–8 expedition to the Maluku Islands. The study of this myth during his research on religious sacrifice led Jensen to the introduction of the concept of Dema Deity in ethnology.
  Joseph Campbell first narrated the Hainuwele legend to an English-speaking audience in his work The Masks of God.
context_section_description: Hainuwele, "The Coconut Girl", is a figure from the Wemale and Alune folklore of the island of Seram in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Her story is an origin myth.
  The myth of Hainuwele was recorded by German ethnologist Adolf E. Jensen following the Frobenius Institute's 1937–8 expedition to the Maluku Islands. The study of this myth during his research on religious sacrifice led Jensen to the introduction of the concept of Dema Deity in ethnology.
  Joseph Campbell first narrated the Hainuwele legend to an English-speaking audience in his work The Masks of God.
caption: Hainuwele defecating valuable objects.
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