Pig-Boy is drawn from the stories of Kamapua’a, a divine trickster-hero in Hawaiian mythology. Kamapua’a is a shape-shifter. In human form, he is a handsome warrior. In his pig form, he is a trickster who provokes the powerful.

Sometimes he is a wild piglet, sometimes a voracious hog, rooting in the dark, moist earth. Sometimes he’s a monstrous boar with eight eyes and four tusks curled like the crescent moon. Ever changing, this mischief-maker is a lunar animal that can escape pursuers by transforming into the pig-nosed fish (humu-humu-nuku-nuku-āpua’a) or the kukui tree or the elegant ‘ama’u fern (singed red, it is said, by the fiery wrath of the goddess Pele).

With the tropical colors and cadences of Hawaiian myth, master artist and storyteller, Gerald McDermott, brings a traditional trickster tale to life with mischief, mayhem and a dash of magic.