HWST 107 midterm

Kumulipo

Most important creation myth (Hawaiian) evolutionary type, rather than creation story by deities.

`Ōiwi

Native, Indigenous

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Political status, economic, social, cultural

Io

Polynesian god who is the creator of all things

Kula Kaiāpuni

a secondary Hawaiian immersion school

Seventh Day Adventists

believe that the second coming of Christ will soon occur and the Bible is the absolute guide to faith and spiritual practice in anticipation of his return.

Nīaupiʻo Mating

brother sister mating of high rankings to keep the blood pure.

Mālama 'āina

care for and nurture the land

'Aha ceremony,

ceremonies at heiau to dedicate the turning from night to day, complete silence no sudden movements

Assimilation

change throughout the islands 19-20 century, process by which a person or persons acquires the social and psychological characteristics of a group

Ali`i

chief

Cultural bomb

concept of the annihilation of a culture through enforcement of standardized education of another culture.

Self Determination

country determines own statehood

`Aikapu

culture that separates men and women

Ke Ao

daylight

Maui

A renowned Hawaiian mythological hero. Is said to slow the sun, lift the sky, and fish new land from the ocean.

Kalaninuiiamamao

Hawaiian god of fertility, agriculture, peace

Hi`iaka

Hawaiian goddess of clouds, forests, hula dancing, carried to Hawaii by pele in form of egg.

Samuel Kamakau

Hawaiian historian and scholar, work appeared in newspapers and books, later served kingdom and house of represantatives

David Malo

Hawaiian minister, partnered with Kuakini, Minister and historian.

Heiau

Hawaiian temples, places of worship

`Imihaku

to search for the two paths of mana Ku, and Lono. "to search for a new source of mana."

Mental universe

use of the mental universe of the colonized, the control, through culture of how people perceive themselves and their relationship to the world.

Kwasi

wild ghost spirit (Baegu)

John IʻI

wrote Hawaiian orature and literature

Colonial alienation

disassociation, isolation of the sensibility of that child from his natural and social environment.

Ahupua`a

division between land and sea

Ao o Milu

evil soul, a part of the spirit world no one wants to go to.

`Ohana

family

Kū`ula

family guardians that bring prosperity, fishermen would pray to him at a ko'a

'Aumakua

family or personal gods (usually in animal form like shark)

Kāne

father of all gods, creator of the universe, life nature, mankind, highest of the four major Hawaiian deities

Maluaʻe

father that sacrificed himself to be with his son, the gods felt sorry for him and turned him into spirit form to fetch his son, he was successful.

Laʻilaʻi

first born daughter, human form, one without four divinities

Kākū'ai,

food offering/ sacrifice to gods

Konohiki

generic ali'i class, chief who serves a chief.

`Uhane

ghost

`Aumakua

personal family deities

Kiʻi

picture, image, statue

Leina

place for spirits

Lele,

place on an altar on which an offering goes to the gods

Havaik

place where Polynesian ancestors come from, the abode of the dead, the original home of the human spirit.

Pidgin

plantation worker language to differentiate from traditional english

Mana

power, leadership, stregnth

Hāloa

son of Wakea all hawaiians descended from him

Ao Kuewa

spirit world wandering souls. Place for souls that have no rightful place in the aumakua realm

UN Declaration of rights of Indigenous peoples

statement created by the united nations hoped for a more rational world

Hāloa

still born son of Wakea, first kalo plant, progenitor of the Hawaiian people, descended from taro

Culture

stories and sense of history, language, religion, rituals of daily life, art and creativity, authority/power, rituals of continuity.

Mo`olelo

story

Aabu system

strict religious practices

Mālama 'āina

take care of the land

Manu Kū

the bird that indicates the land

Mo`okū`auhau

the chiefly genealogy

Animism

the idea that all natural objects and the universe itself have spirits.

Kinolau

the idea that spirits can manifest themselves in different natural physical forms

Hōkūpa'a

the immovable star, the north star

Decolonization

the undoing of colonialism, where the country of power withdraws.

Polytheism

belief in or worship of one or more gods

Kuleana

job/responsibility

Kahakō,

long vowel in Hawaiian

Ka Pō

night

Kumupa`a

original male deities such as Ku, Lono, Kane, Kanaloa

HCE

Hawaiian Creole English

Maka`āinana

people of the land, commoners, common people

Maori School Act

(1867) All children are to be taught to read and write in Maori.

Pūnana Leo

An organization dedicated to preserving the Hawaiian language through teaching Hawaiian immersion schools.

Colonialism

By 1900s every island excluding Tonga

Pele

Daughter of Haumea and Kane, Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.

Papa

Earth wife

Kanaka Maoli

Full blooded Hawaiian person

Akua

God

Haumea

Goddess of birth, politics, and war

Tahi

Haumeas brother; creator of god

The wayfinder

Kyselka, the most important star constellation for timing of landfall is the southern cross.

Kohanga Reo

Maori language revitalization program for New Zealand natives, means "Language nest"

Baegu

People of Malaita, Solomon islands, had their own religion. Animistic/polytheistic people

Wākea

The sky father (ancestor of all Hawaiians)

Noho `Ana

When a spirit tree tries to posses a body, leading to psychological problems, way of life

Austronesian

a family of languages spoken in an area extending from Madagascar to Rapa Nui, 1200 languages, 300 mil speakers, moves and settled in other places and inhabited and colonized them.

Okina

a glottal stop looks like a backwards apostrophe.

Luakini

a heiau dedicated to Ku, the Hawaiian god of war

`Aumakua

an ancestral deity

Marching Rule

an emancipation movement for self-government and self-determination during/after WW2 in Solomon islands

Subsistence economy

any farm economy where most crops are grown for local or family consumption

Pono

balance, symbolizes the interconnections between light and dark, male and female, life and death, etc.

Harmony

being one with God, natural, absolute, internal harmony

Monotheism

belief in a single god

Haumea

goddess of birth, politics, war

Creole

gradual melding of the various regional dialects and traditional english

Ali`i Nui

high class of Hawaiian chief

Kahuna nui

high priest

Kahuna

priest, or expert

Kuleana

relationship with a god, at death you want to be reunited with said god, genealogical connection, responsibility privilidge

Interdependence

relationships in which members of the group are mutually dependent on the others. (can be used to describe old Hawaiian community as well as relation between people, land, and sea)

Mana

religious power or energy that is concentrated in individuals or objects.

Pono

righteous, proper, correct

`Aikapu

sacred eating separation of men and women

Mo`o

shape shifting dragon deities (mostly female) seen as guardians.

Ko'a

shrine used in ceremonies , fishing heiau

Wākea

sky father