THE Micronesian myth material, as here outlined, clearly reveals
its relationships to Indonesia on the one hand, and to Polynesia
on the other. In the lack of detailed legends of creation
Micronesia seems to agree with what has been denominated as the
Indonesian as opposed to the Malayan myth type in Indonesia. In
other particulars its similarities are with the general
Indonesian material, which, as has been pointed out, is at
present difficult to separate into its constituents, although
the absence of the trickster tales seems to argue little direct
relation with the definitely later Malay type. With Polynesia,
the Micronesian data show many features of resemblance, and
these are wide-spread in the whole Polynesian area. Melanesian
similarities are far less striking, and when they exist, seem to
be with eastern Melanesia rather than with New Guinea and the
Bismarck Archipelago, though these are geographically nearer.
The eastern Melanesian mythology appears to show evidence of
greater Polynesian admixture or