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Source: Composed for the family home near the mouth of the Ala Wai. Verse 2 tells of the well polished floors. Verse 3 alludes to the heads of the household who monitor the guests, their behavior and discipline, if necessary. Verse 5 says the home is the gathering place of many people or birds. "He Aloha Mele" attributes the background of this song to the Kohala families and Pololû. |
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It's important to understand the 'usage' of a muliwai. I was schooled by my Na Kupuna M/Mrs. about the importance of a muliwai. I really didn't know the values system of our ancient passed on to generations thereafter until my Kupuna sat me down and began to speak. She not only started to express her childhood memories--she also started to hum the song. We were in a public restaurant in Waianae and the people around me was also intently listening to her humming. From that moment on I started to live by the muliwai too. She explained in a Kupuna manner the importance of a muliwai and the mountains and the sea. The things that she ate, swimming (with no clothes on), and the systems of nature that connected the mountain to the muliwai and the systems that connected to the sea. I was so taken by this that I started to research my instructor's work on the web. Jackie Miller from UH Manoa Environmental Science. I always remembered her that fact that her main research was the Ala Wai, which I know come to understand that she studied the 'muliwai's. Prof or not I disagree with her findings!
Recently, this passed weekend I took students interested in homelessness/houselessness on a day long journey beginning with the 'muliwai' they were so receptive. So that is part of the occupied subject to talk about as they occupy 'Thomas Square' with their friends.