1.4
Respects to 'Aikapu, Akua
Gods
Who are the children of Wakea and Ho'ohokukalani and whom does each child represent?
Haloa-naka buried in the earth and grew first kalo plant Haloa- first Hawaiian Ali'i Nui and became the ancestor of all the Hawaiian people
List their children
Hawai'i, Maui, Ho'ohokukalani (woman), Kaua'i, Ni'ihau, Lehua, Ka'ula
Po'olua or two heads refers to
Hawaiian belief that both Ali'i nui would be the child's father
Describe the significance and importance of genealogies to indigenous peoples.
Indigenous people need to know their history and identities of their ancestors
What examples reflects Papa and Wakea story?
Konohiki duty to take care for all the land in his kingdom on behalf of his people= malama 'aina first lesson
Kaukau ali'i duties
Lesser Chief
What is the solution that was provided by the Kahuna (religious priest)?
Males- being sacred (la'a) Females- defiling/virtue of menstration ( Haumia) Sacred eating ('Aikapu) religion in which males and females separated in the act of eating.
Failure on the part of the MO'I on either path of mana was to prove to be outside the state of ____.
Pono
What is the metaphorical relationship that this refers to the idea of reciprocity?
Retain certain lands, not preserve or care for them. Buying/ selling lands.
Who is Wakea? Who is Papa?
Sky-father, Earth-mother
The MO'I is at the apex of the societal "triangle" as an intermediary between __ and the rest of _____ ( the people of Hawai'i.
akua Ka lahui
Kaukau ali'i
buffer between common laborer and god like ali'i nui
konohiki
collecting tribute and directing the day to day activities of cultivation and fishing
According to the author, "incest is by definition a formula for creating ___"
divinity
Maka'ainana
laborers
kahuna
lesser priests
The path of Lono is the path of
mana could be obtained through sexual means and through violence
Ali'i nui
mediators between the divine and human
Kinolau (many bodies) is the many of _____ forms of gods
physical
Kahuna
priests
Punalua literally "two springs" refers to
two lovers who shared one mate, either at the same time or one after the other.
'On and elementary level, 'Aikapu is that which prevents the ____ nature of _____ from defiling ____ sanctity when they offer ____ to the male Akua, and which is further observed on the ___ nights of the four major male Akua.
unclean women male sacrifice kapu
The metaphor of 'Aikapu, however, is much more than the separation of male kapu from the descration of female essence. it is ___ of the entire ___ system.
underpinning kapu
Akua
who rules
Ali'i Nui
High Chief
Konohiki
Land Mangers
Maka'ainana duties
those who lives on land
The path of KU is the path of
war and politics
What is the significance of the story of Papa, Wakea, and Ho'ohokukalani?
A desire for his daughter welled up in Wakea, but he hoped to gratify his desire without sister and wahine knowing of it.