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The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
A surviving monument to this history are the Healer Stones of Kapaemāhū on Waikiki Beach, which commemorate four important māhū who first brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaiʻi. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] These are referred to by Hawaiian historian Mary Kawena Pukui as pae māhū , or literally a row of māhū . [ 11 ]
A koa wood canoe model on display inside. The East Hawaii Cultural Center (EHCC) is an art gallery, community theater, and cultural center in downtown Hilo, Hawaii.EHCC features regular art exhibitions with free or suggested donation entry to the general public.
The heiau were sacred places; only the kahuna (priests) and certain sacred ali'i (high chiefs) were allowed to enter. The largest heiau known to exist, Hale O Pi'ilani Heiau, is a massive, three-acre (12,000-square-meter) platform with fifty-foot retaining walls, located in Hāna on Maui. Built for Pi'ilani, it dates to the 13th century. [11]
Shane Palacat-Nelsen’s voice drops to a reverent tone as he tells the story of the snow goddess Poliahu who Native Hawaiians believe inhabits the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest point in Hawaii.
As a sacred art, kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau seek to ensure that the 'ike or knowledge is properly used for just purposes. [2] The kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau is responsible for gathering, preparing and administering herbs based on the needs of the patient and the healing properties of the herbs / lāʻau. [15]
These protests have become known as the Thirty Meter Telescope Protests. Some Hawaiians regard Mauna Kea as the most sacred mountain of Native Hawaiian religion and culture. Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners have repeatedly failed in court to prove that these practices [which?] predate 1893 (the threshold for protection under Hawaii State ...
Traditionally in ancient Hawaii lomilomi was practiced in four contexts: As a healing practice of native healers -- kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau (healers) and kahuna hāhā (diagnosticians) As a luxury and an aid to digestion, especially by the ruling chiefs ; As restorative massage within the family; By ʻōlohe lua (masters of the Hawaiian martial ...