taken. Anthony Paredes and Marcus Hepburn (1976) argue that the Puluwatese employ synthetic holistic thinking and the Western navigators use analytic dichotomistic thinking, which they have learned from their respective predecessors. A similar explanation might be given for the difference between prophetic writings in the Old Testament and in the Pauline Epistles. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets describe specific historical incidents or concrete pictographic visions in great detail