Tataa, vāhi rereraa vārua i te pō According to native teachings, the vārua or soul, after removing itself from its earthly shells called tino, vāite, and mauri, travels a long way before reaching Rōhutu, Hawaïki, or Te Pō. For the...
At Kekaa lived Maui and Moemoe ; the great desire of one was to sleep ; his head on the pillow, there he would lie until Welehu (November) became the month. This person was Moemoe. The other desired to travel. When Moemoe slept, Maui...
Puu Kekaa is the most prominent natural feature at Kaanapali . Formed by an old lava flow that entered the sea, this work of the volcano goddess Pele creates a little cove, with beaches on either side that attracts abundant marine...
When the Maui Eldorado was being built, Eric Jacobsen unearthed two very large stones, both of which are historic in Hawaiian legends. One is Moemoe, who was turned to stone by the demi-god Maui in a fit of pique over Moemoe’s insults....
The important thing is that Kekaa was the birthplace of Kaululaau (son of Kakaalaneo), the famous one who traveled all over Lana’i fighting the numerous ghosts there and made it a land fit to be inhabited by human beings as it is at...
OTHER SITES OF MAUI: ALA HELE KAPALUA Honokahua is the site of an estimated 2000 ancient hawaiian burials dating between AD 610 and 1800. Hawaians believe that from such a place ancestors spirits continue to lovingly watch over the...
" The hawaiians are not agreed in the idea as to what becomes of the soul after a person dies. They say that the soul has three abiding places, namely : the volcano, in the water, and on dry plains like the plains of Kamaomao (Wailuku)...
Les extraits ci-dessous sont tirés de "Sites of Oah u" par Elphset P. Sterling et Catherine C. Summers, publié par "the Bishop Museum Press" (juin 1978). Ka’ena and P ele Ka ena (red-hot). Ka’ena was one of the relatives of Pele who...