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Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina.
Mahalo" is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, or respects. According to the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, it is derived from the Proto-Polynesian *masalo. [1] Some sources support that the meanings "thanks" and "gratitude" were appended to the word following contact with Westerners.
Historically, māhū was a respectful term for people assigned male at birth, but with colonization the word was denigrated and used as an insult (similar to the term “faggot”) to refer to gay people. Over the past decade, there has been an effort to recapture the original dignity and respect accorded the term māhū, and to broaden its ...
The story of the creation of the Hawaiian Islands and the first Hawaiian was told orally from generation to generation for a long time. When the Hawaiian writing system was established in the 18th century, it was put into documents, especially the Kumulipo of the Hawaiian royalty's story of creation and genealogy. The Kumulipo was later opened ...
There are no accepted Hawaiian sources – Malo, [8] Kamakau, [9] 'I'i, [10] or Kepelino [11] – that refer to the word Huna as a tradition of esoteric learning. Max Freedom Long wrote that he obtained many of his case studies and his ideas about what to look for in kahuna magic from the Director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, William Brigham .
David Malo or Davida Malo (1795–1853) was a chiefly counselor, a Hawaiian intellectual, educator, politician and minister. He is remembered by subsequent generations of Hawaiian people and scholars primarily as a Native Hawaiian historian of the Kingdom of Hawaii. In 1852 he was ordained as a minister at Kēōkea, Maui. [1]
In the Hawaiian religion, Papahānaumoku is the mother of the islands and creator of life. According to the ancient myths, Papa is the wife of Wākea , son of the god Kahiko . Wākea is the Father Sky in the Hawaiian religion [ 5 ] and a personification of the male creative power.
The four largest Hawaiian islands (Hawaiʻi proper, Maui, Kauaʻi, and Oʻahu) were usually ruled each by their own aliʻi nui. Molokaʻi also had a line of island rulers, but was later subjected to the superior power of nearby Maui and Oʻahu during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.