Hawaiian

** [[image:hawaiian-art-turtle-nap.jpg]]Human Relationships with the natural world **
// Hawaiian traditions based on relationship between people and living systems. Hawaiian people embrace their native ecosystems, land and sea. They developed an intimate relationship with their natural setting, marked by deep love, knowledge, and respect of these places. Their relationship to the land based on one principle: not land serving people, but people serving the land. //



Pueo (Hawaiian owl) is an ‘aumakua to many Hawaiian families. The red blossom of the lehua is the kinolau of the volcano goddess Pele.
Hawaiian people believe that gods can take the forms of natural environment, which known as the kinolau concept. The other concept is the Kumulipo, the chant of creation, thousands of lines long, in which people appear long after other living things, which themselves precede even the gods. Also people of the island know that needs of the land coming first; and once it’s satisfied, the land can support the people living on it.



He ali‘i nō ka ‘āina, ke kauwā wale ke kanaka The land is the chief, the people merely servants
**Sacred Times** They believed that the God Ku ruled the land for eight months of the year and Lono ruled for four months in the winter during the Makahiki festival. The festival is a time when war is suspended and fertility is celebrated. During the festival people sing and dance, as well play lots of games.

**Practices** Men never eat with women. They followed two concepts: Mana and Kapu. The Hawaiians believed in preserving their Mana, which they believed could be found throughout nature. Kapu is the law that dictates the protection of Mana. Kapu told them what they could wear, what to eat, when they could fish, and where they were allowed to go.


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**Space** There weren’t any official temples built, but there were altars and statues built within stone like structures. The Hawaiians believed that the goddess Pele lived inside of the volcano Kilauea and that it erupts whenever she’s angry.

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=The Importance of Origins, Gods, and Ancestors= The ancient Hawaiian deities that created the world, known as akua, are often manifested in carved figures or other objects. It is believed that the Gods used their mana, or supernatural powers, to control the lives of the Hawaiian people. Gods could communicate themselves through human prophets, dreams, images, or something in nature like a shark or thunder. There were four major Gods, including Kane, Ku, Kanaloa, and Lono. There may have been as many as 40,000 know Gods, lesser Gods, and demigods. The Hawaiians believe that there were four main Gods that created everything; they have no other creation beliefs. It was believed that the God Kane picked up a giant calabash and threw it in the sky, creating the sky and the stars. Ancestors are thought of as an Aumakua. An Aumakua is a family God that is often a deified ancestor. **Stick God (** //**Akua Ka'ai**// **)** [|__**http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.206.1625**__] **A Calabash**

=**Artistic Expression and Stories in Oral Religions**= Hula is not only entertainment but a religious ritual. They dance to ask the Gods for food water and overall good health. Its also used as a form of self expression. It may not seem like it but males do the hula also, but since the goddess Kapo was a female women are the main one to perform it.

www.hulashows.com The Hawaiians also have pictorial arts the usually illustrate children and women with and in nature.

Another big thing the Hawaiian males do is body art, which express ancient Hawaiian symbols. The Hawaiian men sometimes have body art to symbolize ancient spirits. =Works Cited = //Edmonds., Meghan. "MythHome: Hawaiian Gods." //Welcome to MYTHHOME:Mythology Site//. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. . // //"Hawaiian Culture." //Kamaole Sands Owner Direct Vacation Rentals//. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. . // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Hawaiian Creation Myths." //Encyclopedia Mythica//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from Encyclopedia Mythica Online. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__<http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hawaiian_creation_myths.html>__] // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"Religion In Hawaii Past And Present" October 16, 2007 // Kamhcc.index//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. 07 Apr. 2007. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. <http://www.kamhcc.org>. // Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, The. 1998. Hawaiian High Islands Ecoregional Plan. Internal manuscript .Hawaiian High Islands Ecoregion. <http: //.hawaiiecoregionplan.info/culture.html// //[|>]// // This page last revised 01 May 2008 -- S.M.Gon III // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"Religion and Expressive Culture - Hawaiians." //Countries and Their Cultures//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. <http://www.everyculture.com/Oceania/Hawaiians-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html>. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Stick God (Akua Ka'ai) [Hawai'i] (1979.206.1625)". In //Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.206.1625> (April 2008)